Facial expressions and speech are means to convey information. They can be used to reinforce speech or even complementary to speech. The main goal of our research is to investigate...
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 set of imag...
This paper describes an efficient method to make an individual face for animation from several possible inputs and how to use this result for a realistic talking head communication...
In this paper, a lifelike talking head system is proposed. The talking head, which is driven by speaker independent speech recognition, requires only one single face image to synt...