Talking Heads and Hearing Impaired Persons
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This paper aims at giving a brief introduction to the research area of computer animated images of faces used for helping the hearingimpaired. The focus is especially on the progress being made in the Synface project and its predecessor. Some of the basic methods are mentioned and some description of the current state of research is given.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003