TY - GEN
T1 - A talking head for speech tutoring
AU - Dey, Priya
AU - Maddock, Steve
AU - Nicolson, Rod
PY - 2010/10/21
Y1 - 2010/10/21
N2 - This work applies a viseme-driven talking head in a pronunciation training system. The aim is to create a pronunciation assistant to complement traditional methods and to assist the work of a human language tutor. Visual speech can be valuable in speech tutoring applications because vision benefits human speech perception, for three reasons as suggested by Summerfield (Summerfield, 1987): It helps speaker localization, it contains speech segmental information that supplements the audio, and it provides complementary information about the place of articulation. This study aims to elucidate the benefits of visual speech in language learning.
AB - This work applies a viseme-driven talking head in a pronunciation training system. The aim is to create a pronunciation assistant to complement traditional methods and to assist the work of a human language tutor. Visual speech can be valuable in speech tutoring applications because vision benefits human speech perception, for three reasons as suggested by Summerfield (Summerfield, 1987): It helps speaker localization, it contains speech segmental information that supplements the audio, and it provides complementary information about the place of articulation. This study aims to elucidate the benefits of visual speech in language learning.
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U2 - 10.1145/1924035.1924041
DO - 10.1145/1924035.1924041
M3 - Conference proceeding (ISBN)
AN - SCOPUS:79951784544
SN - 9781450305228
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 14
BT - Proceedings - FAA 2010
T2 - ACM/SSPNET 2nd International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation, FAA 2010
Y2 - 21 October 2010 through 21 October 2010
ER -