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Alexey Karpov and Liliya Tsirulnik and Miloš Železný and Zdeněk Krňoul and Andrey Ronzhin and BorisLobanov : Study on Audio-Visual Asynchrony of Russian Speech for Improvement of Talking Head Naturalness . SPECOM'2009 Proceedings, p. 130-138, SPIIRAS, Petrohrad, 2009.

Abstract

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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Title: Study on Audio-Visual Asynchrony of Russian Speech for Improvement of Talking Head Naturalness
Author: Alexey Karpov ; Liliya Tsirulnik ; Miloš Železný ; Zdeněk Krňoul ; Andrey Ronzhin ; BorisLobanov
Language: English
Date of publication: 25 Jun 2009
Year: 2009
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: SPECOM'2009 Proceedings
Page: 130 - 138
ISBN: 978-5-8088-0442-5
Publisher: SPIIRAS
Address: Petrohrad
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Keywords

audi-visual asynchrony, talking head, russian

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{AlexeyKarpov_2009_StudyonAudio-Visual,
 author = {Alexey Karpov and Liliya Tsirulnik and Milo\v{s} \v{Z}elezn\'{y} and Zden\v{e}k Kr\v{n}oul and Andrey Ronzhin and BorisLobanov},
 title = {Study on Audio-Visual Asynchrony of Russian Speech for Improvement of Talking Head Naturalness},
 year = {2009},
 publisher = {SPIIRAS},
 address = {Petrohrad},
 pages = {130-138},
 booktitle = {SPECOM'2009 Proceedings},
 ISBN = {978-5-8088-0442-5},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/AlexeyKarpov_2009_StudyonAudio-Visual},
}