Framework for Lithuanian speech animation

Speech animation is widely used in technical devices to allow the growing number of hearing impaired persons, children, middle-aged and elderly equal participation in communication. This article presents a framework, which can be used to animate Speech sound file. The architecture proposed is made up of the following components: Lithuanian speech recognition, Lithuanian 3D visemes usage according to the MPEG-4 standard and finally translingual viseme and phoneme synthesis. All the components are integrated in an English visual speech synthesizer iFACE for creation of animated Lithuanian speech samples.