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Zdeněk Krňoul : Refinement of Lip Shape in Sign Speech Synthesis . Proceedings of the 2009 conference on auditory-visual speech processing, p. 161-165, Norwich : School of Computing Sciences, 2009.

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This paper deals with an analysis of lip shapes during speech that accompanies sign language, referred to as sign speech. A new sign speech database is collected and a new framework for the analysis of mouth patterns is introduced. Using a shape model restricted to the outer lip contour, we show that the articulatory parameters for visual speech alone are not sufficient for representing sign speech. The errors occur mainly for the mouth opening. A correction to the standard articulatory parameters and additional articulatory parameters are investigated to cover the observed mouth patterns and thus refine the synthesised sign speech.

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Title: Refinement of Lip Shape in Sign Speech Synthesis
Author: Zdeněk Krňoul
Language: English
Date of publication: 16 Sep 2009
Year: 2009
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Proceedings of the 2009 conference on auditory-visual speech processing
Page: 161 - 165
ISBN: 978-0-9563452-0-2
Publisher: Norwich : School of Computing Sciences
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visual speech synthesis, talking head, sign speech synthesis, articulatory parameters

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@INPROCEEDINGS{ZdenekKrnoul_2009_RefinementofLip,
 author = {Zden\v{e}k Kr\v{n}oul},
 title = {Refinement of Lip Shape in Sign Speech Synthesis},
 year = {2009},
 publisher = {Norwich : School of Computing Sciences},
 pages = {161-165},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 conference on auditory-visual speech processing},
 ISBN = {978-0-9563452-0-2},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/ZdenekKrnoul_2009_RefinementofLip},
}

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