Real-time speech animation system
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Fu, Jieyun
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Real-time videorealistic speech animation system
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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James Glass and D. Scott Cyphers.
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We optimize the synthesis procedure of a videorealistic speech animation system [7] to achieve real-time speech animation synthesis. A synthesis rate must be high enough for real-time video streaming for speech animation systems to be viable in industry and deployed as applications for user machine interactions and real-time dialogue systems. In this thesis we apply various approaches to develop a parallel system that is capable of synthesizing real-time videos and is adaptable to various distributed computing architectures. After optimizing the synthesis algorithm, we integrate a videorealistic speech animation system, called Mary101, with a speech synthesizer, a speech recognizer, and a RTMP server to implement a web-based text to speech animation system.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-49).
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2011Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.