Teleface-the use of a synthetic face for the hard of hearing

Author

Agelfors, Eva ; Beskow, Jonas ; Dahlquist, Martin ; Granstrom, Bjorn ; Lundeberg, Magnus ; Spens, Karl-Erik ; Ohman, Tobias

Author_Institution

Centre for Speech Technol., Stockholm Univ., Sweden

fYear

1998

fDate

29-30 Sep 1998

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

134

Abstract

In the Teleface project the possibilities for a visual telephone communication aid for hearing impaired persons are being evaluated. Multimodal speech intelligibility experiments showed a marked intelligibility advantage for the addition of the face information, both for natural and synthetic faces. This is valid for hearing impaired persons as well as for normal-hearing persons in a noisy environment. We present results from two series of tests with hearing impaired subjects

Keywords

audio-visual systems; handicapped aids; hearing; image processing; noise; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; video signal processing; videotelephony; Teleface project; face information; hard of hearing; hearing impaired persons; multimodal speech intelligibility experiments; natural face; noisy environment; normal-hearing persons; synthetic face; visual telephone communication aid; Acoustic testing; Animation; Auditory system; Loudspeakers; Signal analysis; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Telephony; Tongue; Video sequences;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications, 1998. IVTTA '98. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE 4th Workshop

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5028-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVTTA.1998.727707

Filename

727707