Study on Audio-Visual Asynchrony of Russian Speech for Improvement of Talking Head Naturalness

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Study on Audio-Visual Asynchrony of Russian Speech for Improvement of Talking Head Naturalness
Original language description
An audio-visual speech synthesis system with modeling of asynchrony between auditory and visual speech streams has been proposed in the paper. Corpus-based study of real multimedia recordings gave us the required data for understanding the problem of modalities asynchrony that is partially caused by the co-articulation phenomena. A set of context-dependent timing rules and recommendations was elaborated in order to make a synchronization of auditory and visual speech cues of the animated talking head similar to a natural humanlike way. The proposed asynchrony model was introduced into the audio-driven talking head as an intermediate level for visual synthesis controlling. The cognitive evaluation of the model-based Russian-speaking talking head with implementation of the original asynchrony model has shown high intelligibility and naturalness of audio-visual synthesized speech.
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Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2009
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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