Visual Speech Synthesis by Morphing Visemes

We present MikeTalk, a text-to-audiovisual speech synthesizer which converts input text into an audiovisual speech stream. MikeTalk is built using visemes, which are a small set of images spanning a large range of mouth shapes. The visemes are acquired from a recorded visual corpus of a human subjec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ezzat, Tony, Poggio, Tomaso
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7263