Translingual visual speech synthesis
US6813607B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 31, 2000 |
| Grant date | Nov 2, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 31, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2021/105
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computer implemented method in a language independent system generates audio-driven facial animation given the speech recognition system for just one language. The method is based on the recognition that once alignment is generated, the mapping and the animation hardly have any language dependency in them. Translingual visual speech synthesis can be achieved if the first step of alignment generation can be made speech independent. Given a speech recognition system for a base language, the method synthesizes video with speech of any novel language as the input.
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