Virtual Speaking Head for Hearing Impaired People in Crisis Time

Lot of deaf hearing impaired people is using lips reading as a main communication form. They prefer Virtual speaking head in crisis situation, as is fire, flood, bombs, different evacuation... A viseme is a representational unit used to classify speech sounds in the visual domain. A “viseme” describes the particular facial and oral positions and movements that occur alongside the voicing of phonemes. Design tool for creating correct speech visemes is designed. Its composed from 5 modules; module for creating phonemes, module for creating 3D speech visemes, module for facial expression and module for synchronization between phonemes and visemes and last one module to generate speech triphones. We are testing correctness of visemes on Slovak speech domains. Up to now, have not been developed the regular Slovak speech visemes. The paper describe developed tool. Slovak speech visemes and Virtual speaking head [16] as a helpful for hearing impaired people in crisis situations to orientate him.