VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS BASED ON PARAMETER GENERATION FROM HMM: SPEECH-DRIVEN AND TEXT-AND-SPEECH-DRIVEN APPROACHES

Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 1998, AVSP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 221-224

  Tamura, Masatsune ^a   Masuko, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH; DYNAMIC FEATURES; LIP MOVEMENTS; PARAMETER VECTORS; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATE SEQUENCES; VECTOR SEQUENCES; VISUAL SPEECH; VISUAL SPEECH FEATURES; VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85133460248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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