Modeling visual coarticulation in synthetic talking heads using a lip motion unit inventory with concatenative synthesis

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Minnis, Steve ^a   Breen, Andrew ^b  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Information Systems   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DATA DRIVEN TECHNIQUE; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; HEARING IMPAIRED; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RULE-BASED MODELS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009080445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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