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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejon-Shi, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704276 ; 704260 ;
Abstract
A method of formatting and normalizing continuous lip motions to events in a moving picture besides text in a Text-To-Speech converter is provided. A synthesized speech is synchronized with a moving picture by using the method wherein the real speech data and the shape of a lip in the moving picture are analyzed, and information on the estimated lip shape and text information are directly used in generating the synthesized speech.