Evaluation of A Viseme-Driven Talking Head [article]

Priya Dey, Steve Maddock, Rod Nicolson
2010 Computer Graphics and Visual Computing  
This paper introduces a three-dimensional virtual head for use in speech tutoring applications. The system achieves audiovisual speech synthesis using viseme-driven animation and a coarticulation model, to automatically generate speech from text. The talking head was evaluated using a modified rhyme test for intelligibility. The audiovisual speech animation was found to give higher intelligibility of isolated words than acoustic speech alone.
doi:10.2312/localchapterevents/tpcg/tpcg10/139-142 dblp:conf/tpcg/DeyMN10 fatcat:t7ir72j6pbg6law4ornxed4pwy