Synthetic audiovisual storyteller

A method of animating a computer generation of a head and displaying the text of an electronic book, such that the head has a mouth which moves in accordance with the speech of the text of the electronic book to be output by the head and a word or group of words from the text is displayed while simu...

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Hauptverfasser:	BLOKLAND ROBERT ARTHUR, BAKER NEIL, WAN VINCENT PING LEUNG, KOLLURU BALAKRISHNA VENKATA JAGANNADHA, MAIA RANNIERY, CHEN LANGZHOU, ANDERSON ROBERT, STENGER BJORN, BRAUNSCHWEILER NORBERT, YANAGISAWA KAYOKO, CIPOLLA ROBERTO, LATORRE-MARTINEZ JAVIER, STYLIANOU IOANNIS
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACOUSTICS CALCULATING COMPUTING COUNTING ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS PHYSICS SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING SPEECH RECOGNITION
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Zusammenfassung:	A method of animating a computer generation of a head and displaying the text of an electronic book, such that the head has a mouth which moves in accordance with the speech of the text of the electronic book to be output by the head and a word or group of words from the text is displayed while simultaneously being mimed by the mouth, wherein input text is divided into a sequence of acoustic units, which are converted to a sequence of image vectors and into a sequence of text display indicators. The sequence of image vectors is outputted as video such that the mouth of said head moves to mime the speech associated with the input text with a selected expression, and the sequence of text display indicators is output as video which is synchronized with the lip movement of the head.