Viseme set and ASCII mapping codes preparation for standard Malay audiovisual speech synthesis / Siti Salwa Salleh … [et al.]

Salleh, Siti Salwa and Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza and Mahmud, Ramlan and Ahmad, Fatimah (2004) Viseme set and ASCII mapping codes preparation for standard Malay audiovisual speech synthesis / Siti Salwa Salleh … [et al.]. In: STSS 2004: Sains Teknologi Jilid 1, 31 Mei – 1 Jun 2004, Hotel Vistana, Kuantan, Pahang.

Abstract

This paper presents the preparation aspects of identifying ASCII mapping code for Standard Malay (SM) Phonetics alphabet and visemes set in developing a Standard Malay (SM) audiovisual speech synthesis (AVSS). We describe our effort on the examination of existing visemes set which can be used in presenting SM mouth shapes during speech event. The results of this analysis will be employ in building up a talking head, a computer generated model of speaking faces which integrate a speech synthesis module to the visual representation of facial animation The visemes and phonemes will be coupled tightly in the AVSS to provide naturalness of the speaking talking head. The study starts by identifying the SM phonemes and dissect the similarity and differences between SM and American-English phoneme. The purpose is to identify the additional phonemes present in SM but not in the American-English. The result would lead to the establishment on the viability to use and extend the DECTAlk visemes set in SM audiovisual speech synthesis. To obtain the SM visemes set, a video recording were done. The video recording captures an event of a subject who pronounced a collection of words which consist of every phoneme in SM. In addition to allow the manipulation of the phonetic alphabet in the ASCII computer system, our effort also proposed the setting up of SM phonetics alphabet mapping codes. The mapping procedure followed the guidelines which suggested by the Speech Assessment Methods (SAM) community.

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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
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Salleh, Siti Salwa
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Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza
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Mahmud, Ramlan
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Ahmad, Fatimah
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Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Technological innovations
P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > Malay language. General works. History
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > Telecommunication > Information display systems
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pahang > Jengka Campus
Journal or Publication Title: Sains Teknologi Jilid 1
Event Title: STSS 2004: Sains Teknologi Jilid 1
Event Dates: 31 Mei – 1 Jun 2004
Page Range: pp. 162-169
Keywords: Audiovisual speech synthesis, talking head, phoneme, Viseme, standard Malay
Date: 2004
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/50507
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