Evaluating a virtual speech cuer

Guillaume Gibert (1) , Gérard Bailly (1) , Frédéric Elisei (1)

1 ICP - Institut de la communication parlée

This paper presents the virtual speech cuer built in the context of the ARTUS project aiming at watermarking hand and face gestures of a virtual animated agent in a broadcasted audiovisual sequence. For deaf televiewers that master cued speech, the animated agent can be then superimposed - on demand and at the reception - on the original broadcast as an alternative to subtitling. The paper presents the multimodal text-to-speech synthesis system and the first evaluation performed by deaf users.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Guillaume Gibert, Gérard Bailly, Frédéric Elisei. Evaluating a virtual speech cuer. Interspeech, Sep 2006, Pittsburgh, United States. pp.2430-2433. ⟨hal-00366491⟩