Paper Info
Title
A Text-To-Audiovisual-Speech Synthesizer For French
Abstract
An audiovisual speech synthesizer from unlimited French text is hare presented. It uses a 3-D parametric model of the face. The facial model is controlled by eight parameters. Target values have been assigned to the parameters, for each French viseme, based upon measurements made an a human speaker, Parameter trajectories are modeled by means of dominance functions associated with each parameter and each viseme. A dominance function is characterized by three coefficients so that coarticulation finally depends on the phonetic context, the speech rate, and an ''hypo-hyper articulation'' coefficient adjustable by the user. Finally, the visual and audiovisual intelligibility of our visual synthesizer has been evaluated in its first version, and compared to that of the acoustic synthesizer on which it was implemented.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607232
ICSLP 96 - FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-4
Keywords
Field
DocType
face,coarticulation,speech synthesis,facial animation,parametric statistics,degradation,speech intelligibility,loudspeakers,parametric model
Speech corpus,Speech processing,Speech synthesis,Parametric model,Viseme,Computer science,Speech recognition,Coarticulation,Intelligibility (communication)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
3.31
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bertrand Le Goff18716.42
Christian Benoît222037.74