Evaluation of A Viseme-Driven Talking Head
Priya Dey, Steve Maddock, Rod Nicolson · Edge Hill University Research Information Repository (Edge Hill University) · 2010
This paper introduces a three-dimensional virtual head for use in speech tutoring applications. The system achieves audiovisual speech synthesis using viseme-driven animation and a coarticulation model, to automatically generate speech from text. The talking head was evaluated using a modified rhyme test for intelligibility. The audiovisual speech animation was found to give higher intelligibility of isolated words than acoustic speech alone.