Internationalization of Synthetic Visual Speech

Papers:

Cosi, P., Cohen, M.M. and Massaro, D.W. (2002) Baldini: Baldi speaks Italian. ICSLP 2002, 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. September 16-20, Denver Colorado.

Ouni, S. Massaro, D.W., Cohen, M.M., Young, K. & Jesse, A.(2003). Internationalization of a Talking Head. In Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of PhoneticSciences (ICPhS'03). Barcelona, Spain. Demos

Massaro, D.W., Ouni, S., Cohen, M.M., & Clark, R.(2005). A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent. In R.H. Sprague, R.H.(Ed.), Proceedings of 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICCS~R05) (CD-ROM, 10 pages). Los Alimitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.

Ouni, S., Cohen, M. M., & Massaro, D. W. (2005). Training Baldi to be multilingual: A case study for an Arabic Badr. Speech Communication, 45(2), 115-137. PDF

Other Perceptual Science Lab Publications

AVI and Quicktime Movies: (scroll right for more languages...)

Arabic

Armenian

Brazilian - Portuguese

Castillian - Spanish

Danish

English

French

German

Hebrew

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Mandarin Chinese

Mexican - Spanish

Na'vi

Persian

Pushtu

Russian

Swedish

Vietnamese

(1) MBROLA Abdel AVI / MOV / iPhone (2) Natural AVI / MOV (3) MBROLA Abdel: Iba Sina mid-sagittal view AVI / MOV Click for more on the ancient philosopher Ibn Sina. (circa 1000 AD)

(1) Natural - Tale of the North Wind and the Sun AVI / MOV

(1) Festival AGA: Transparent view AVI / MOV

(1) Festival EL: ABC.es News AVI / MOV

(1) Speech-Ware Carsten: Hello AVI / MOV (2) Speech-Ware Carsten: Story of Balder AVI / MOV

(1) Festival Mike MWM AVI / MOV (2) Neospeech Paul AVI / MOV (3) Lucent John AVI / MOV (4) Microsoft Sapi5 SAM AVI / MOV (5) Baldette with body, Neospeech Kate AVI / MOV

(1) MBROLA Thierry AVI / MOV

(1) MBROLA Helmut AVI / MOV

(1) Natural - Tale of the North Wind and the Sun AVI / MOV / iPhone

(1) Festival Piero AVI / MOV

(1) Neospeech TTS: AVI / MOV Movie text (RTF)

(1) Neospeech TTS: AVI / MOV Movie text (RTF)

(1) Lucent TTS AVI / MOV (2) Natural Speech AVI / MOV (3) Lucent TTS: Classical Poetry AVI / MOV / iPhone (Click for the text: Shi Jing #1: Guan Sui)

(1) Festival ABC AVI / MOV

(1) Natural AVI / MOV / iPhone Movie text (RTF)

(1) Natural - Tale of the North Wind and the Sun AVI / MOV

(1) Natural AVI / MOV (2) Natural AVI / MOV Movie text (DOC)

(1) Sakrament TTS: Pushkin's story of Balda AVI / MOV

(1) Festival SW1 AVI / MOV

(1) Natural AVI / MOV