Title :
Dynamic chinese viseme model based on phones and control function
Author :
Li, Huaqing ; Tang, C.J.
Author_Institution :
Commun. Network Security & Confrontation Lab., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China
fDate :
1/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The aspirate and pronunciation of a Chinese syllable is similar to an `olivary nucleus` and syllables are mildly connected by coarticulation. Accordingly a dynamic viseme model is presented. Inner-syllable visemes are described by initial-final phones, and inter-syllable visemes are determined by a hierarchical control function. Experimental results show improvement in naturalness of lip animation, as compared to the visual speech synthesis system based on triphones.
Keywords :
speech synthesis; coarticulation; control function; dynamic chinese viseme model; initial-final phone function; lip animation; olivary nucleus; visual speech synthesis system;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2010.2570
