A Comparison of German Talking Heads in a Smart Home Environment

International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2008, AVSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 75-78

  Fagel, Sascha ^a   Kuehnel, Christine ^a   Weiss, Benjamin ^a   Wechsung, Ina ^a   Moeller, Sebastian ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audiovisual speech synthesis; Smart home environment; Talking heads

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH; AUDIOVISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; HOME ENVIRONMENT; SHAPE CONTROL; SMART HOME ENVIRONMENT; SMART HOMES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SPEECH UTTERANCE; TALKING HEADS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85133411516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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