SynFace : Verbal and Non-verbal Face Animation from Audio
Jonas Beskow, Giampiero Salvi, Samer Al Moubayed · 2009
We give an overview of SynFace, a speech-driven face animation system originally developed for the needs of hard-of-hearing users of the telephone. For the 2009 LIPS challenge, SynFace includes not only articulatory motion but also non-verbal motion of gaze, eyebrows and head, triggered by detection of acoustic correlates of prominence and cues for interaction control. In perceptual evaluations, both verbal and non-verbal movmements have been found to have positive impact on word recognition scores. 1