Title :
Real-time lip synchronization between text-to-speech (TTS) system and robot mouth
Author :
Oh, Kyung-Geune ; Jung, Chan-Yul ; Lee, Yong-Gyu ; Kim, Seung-Jong
Author_Institution :
Energy Mech. Center, Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol.(KIST), Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
Lip synchronization is one of the most important technologies in the field of intelligent robotics. The natural and precise lip synchronization of robots could contribute to the improvement of human robot interaction and communication. In this paper, we designed a lip synchronization system for intelligent face robots using a text-to-speech system and robot mouth module. By applying several suggested lip synchronization control methods to this robot, we developed a reliable and high-performance robot lip synchronization system. Then, the overall performance of this system was verified through the experiments.
Keywords :
human-robot interaction; humanoid robots; intelligent robots; speech synthesis; human robot interaction; humanoid robotics; intelligent face robots; intelligent robotics; lip synchronization control methods; real-time lip synchronization; robot mouth module; text-to-speech system; Face; Humans; Lips; Mouth; Robots; Shape; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
RO-MAN, 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Viareggio
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7991-7
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2010.5598656