An investigation into the generation of mouth shapes for a talking head

Breen, Andrew P.; Bowers, E.J.; Welsh, William J.

doi:10.1109/icslp.1996.607231

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“…A set of phonemes can be defined as the minimum number of symbols needed to describe every possible word in a language. In English there are about 40 phonemes [9]. Due to complexity and different kind of definitions, the number of phonemes in English and most of the other languages can not be defined exactly.…”

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Speech Synthesis

2019

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders

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Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A system used for this purpose is termed a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. Speech synthesis systems are often called text-to-speech (TTS) systems in reference to their ability to convert text into speech. However, systems exist that instead render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech.A text-to-speech system is composed of two parts: a front-end and a back-end.Broadly, the front-end takes input in the form of text and outputs a symbolic linguistic representation. The back-end takes the symbolic linguistic representation as input and outputs the synthesized speech waveform . TTS software can "read" text from a document, Web page or e-Book, generating synthesized speech through a computer's speakers. TTS can also convert text files into audio MP3 files that can then be transferred to a portable MP3 player or CD-ROM. This can save time by allowing the user to listen to reports or background materials while performing other tasks. TTS makes a critical difference to those with disabilities such as poor vision or visual dyslexia. People with speech loss can utilize specialized TTS programs to turn typed words into vocalization. TTS programs provide a valuable edge, particularly for learning new languages.This thesis aims to study the speech synthesis technology and to develop a cost effective, user friendly text to speech conversion system using Laboratory virtual instruments engineering workbench (LabVIEW) graphical programming language.

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Speech Synthesis

2019

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“…The aim of this project was to research into the spoken language and multimodal aspects of such aninterface and to provide an effective computational research framework Due to scale of the problem1 Maya collaborates closely with anumber of other groups within 31 , these include speech synthesis [l], recognition [2]. understanding [3] and virtual humans [4]. The project is developing an infrastructure that enables advanced research to coexist with demonstrable solutions and has designed an environment for an email application, described further in [5].…”

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The Maya Spoken Language System

DOWNEY,

BREEN,

FERNANDEZ

et al. 2024

Speech and Hearing 1998

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Recent developments in distributed system processing have opened the doors to the running of highly complex systems over a number of networked computers. This enables the complexity of a system to be hidden behind a small. lightweight user interface -for example a downloadable web page. The Maya system makes use of such interfaces to combine the functionality of speech recognition, synthesis robust parsing. text generation and dialogue management into a highly exible multimodal architecture. working in real time. his paper describes the development of the architecture and interfaces to each system component. The con guration of the system to particular tasks is discussed. making use of an email secretary task as an example. Once con gured, the system is able to adopt all the functionality of a conventional email system andextend these capabilities by allowing complex queries to be made about mail messages.

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“…Therefore, the 'McGurk effect' suggests that lip synchronization, which reproduces artificial speaking, could play an important role in the delivery of meaning. In fact, lip synchronization is an essential part of the process of animation production, and many kinds of lip synchronization methods have been introduced [3][4][5].…”

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Real-time lip synchronization between text-to-speech (TTS) system and robot mouth

Jung

Lee

et al. 2010

19th International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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Lip synchronization is one of the most important technologies in the field of intelligent robotics. The natural and precise lip synchronization of robots could contribute to the improvement of human robot interaction and communication. In this paper, we designed a lip synchronization system for intelligent face robots using a text-to-speech system and robot mouth module. By applying several suggested lip synchronization control methods to this robot, we developed a reliable and high-performance robot lip synchronization system. Then, the overall performance of this system was verified through the experiments.

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An investigation into the generation of mouth shapes for a talking head

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