On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual Speech
Audiovisual text-to-speech systems convert a written text into an audiovisual speech signal. Typically, the visual mode of the synthetic speech is synthesized separately from the audio, the latter being either natural or synthesized speech. However, the perception of mismatches between these two inf...
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| author | Wesley Mattheyses Lukas Latacz Werner Verhelst |
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| description | Audiovisual text-to-speech systems convert a written text into an audiovisual speech signal. Typically, the visual mode of the synthetic speech is synthesized separately from the audio, the latter being either natural or synthesized speech. However, the perception of mismatches between these two information streams requires experimental exploration since it could degrade the quality of the output. In order to increase the intermodal coherence in synthetic 2D photorealistic speech, we extended the well-known unit selection audio synthesis technique to work with multimodal segments containing original combinations of audio and video. Subjective experiments confirm that the audiovisual signals created by our multimodal synthesis strategy are indeed perceived as being more synchronous than those of systems in which both modes are not intrinsically coherent. Furthermore, it is shown that the degree of coherence between the auditory mode and the visual mode has an influence on the perceived quality of the synthetic visual speech fragment. In addition, the audio quality was found to have only a minor influence on the perceived visual signal's quality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0aab8d121cb74b8398f5e854f7b74de22022-12-21T18:37:26ZengSpringerOpenEURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing1687-47141687-47222009-01-01200910.1155/2009/169819On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual SpeechWesley MattheysesLukas LataczWerner VerhelstAudiovisual text-to-speech systems convert a written text into an audiovisual speech signal. Typically, the visual mode of the synthetic speech is synthesized separately from the audio, the latter being either natural or synthesized speech. However, the perception of mismatches between these two information streams requires experimental exploration since it could degrade the quality of the output. In order to increase the intermodal coherence in synthetic 2D photorealistic speech, we extended the well-known unit selection audio synthesis technique to work with multimodal segments containing original combinations of audio and video. Subjective experiments confirm that the audiovisual signals created by our multimodal synthesis strategy are indeed perceived as being more synchronous than those of systems in which both modes are not intrinsically coherent. Furthermore, it is shown that the degree of coherence between the auditory mode and the visual mode has an influence on the perceived quality of the synthetic visual speech fragment. In addition, the audio quality was found to have only a minor influence on the perceived visual signal's quality.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/169819 |
| spellingShingle | Wesley Mattheyses Lukas Latacz Werner Verhelst On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual Speech EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing |
| title | On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual Speech |
| title_full | On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual Speech |
| title_fullStr | On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual Speech |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual Speech |
| title_short | On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual Speech |
| title_sort | on the importance of audiovisual coherence for the perceived quality of synthesized visual speech |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/169819 |
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