发明名称 System and method for triphone-based unit selection for visual speech synthesis
摘要 A system and method for generating a video sequence having mouth movements synchronized with speech sounds are disclosed. The system utilizes a database of n-phones as the smallest selectable unit, wherein n is larger than 1 and preferably 3. The system calculates a target cost for each candidate n-phone for a target frame using a phonetic distance, coarticulation parameter, and speech rate. For each n-phone in a target sequence, the system searches for candidate n-phones that are visually similar according to the target cost. The system samples each candidate n-phone to get a same number of frames as in the target sequence and builds a video frame lattice of candidate video frames. The system assigns a joint cost to each pair of adjacent frames and searches the video frame lattice to construct the video sequence by finding the optimal path through the lattice according to the minimum of the sum of the target cost and the joint cost over the sequence.
申请公布号 US7369992(B1) 申请公布日期 2008.05.06
申请号 US20070675813 申请日期 2007.02.16
申请人 AT&T CORP. 发明人 COSATTO ERIC;GRAF HANS PETER;HUANG FU JIE
分类号 G10L21/06;G10L21/00 主分类号 G10L21/06
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