State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is often based on statistical parametric methods. Particular attention is paid to hidden Markov model (HMM) based text-to-speech synthesis. HMM-TTS is optimized for ideal voices and may not produce high quality synthesized speech with voices having frequent non-ideal phonation. Such a voice quality is irregular phonation (also called as glottaliza...

A technique for the early fusion of visual lip movements and a vector of mixed speech signals is proposed. This technique involves the initial recreation of speech signals entirely from the visual lip motions of each speaker. By using geometric parameters of the lips obtained from the Tulips1 database and the Audio-Visual Speech Processing dataset, a virtual speech signal is recreated by using ...

Article history: Available online 3 April 2010

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