lips animation based on japanese phoneme context for an automatic reading system with emotion
We developed a lips animation system that is simple and suits the characteristics of Japanese. It adopts phoneme context that is usually used in speech synthesis. It only needs a small database that contains tracing data of movement of lips for each phoneme context. Through an experiment using subjects in which the subjects read a word from lips animation, we got result as correct as from real lips.
lips animation phoneme context text-to-speech