The CINEMO corpus of French emotional speech provides a richly annotated resource to help overcome the apparent lack of learning and testing speech material for complex, i. e. blended or mixed emotions. The protocol for its collection was dubbing selected emotional scenes from French movies. 51 speakers are contained and the total speech time amounts to 2 hours and 13 minutes and 4 k speech chu...

Many multimedia applications and entertainment industry products like games, cartoons and film dubbing require speech driven face animation and audio-video synchronization. Only Automatic Speech Recognition system (ASR) does not give good results in noisy environment. Audio Visual Speech Recognition system plays vital role in such harsh environment as it uses both – audio and visual – informati...

A new voice conversion method that improves the quality of the voice conversion output at higher sampling rates is proposed. Speaker Transformation Algorithm Using Segmental Codebooks (STASC) is modified to process source and target speech spectra in different subbands. The new method ensures better conversion at sampling rates above 16KHz. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is employed for subba...

Audio-visual translation (AVT) has grown significantly as a field in the studies. AVT subfields are dubbing and subtitling. This study aims to investigate viewers’ reactions toward subtitling of English animated movie, Cars, from into Arabic. The is quantitative. An online questionnaire was administered elicit viewer’s chosen movie. showed strong evidence that works dubbed Egyptian dialect more...

Humour is the infallible and never-outdated medium for creating intimacy collective understanding among peoples of versatile interests and, sometimes, conflicting attitudes. It moment catching humorous effect that counts. creation not easy because factors would trigger laughter vary from one person to another. Creating humour on an international level demands distinguished abilities, as it hard...