Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis
CA 2244624 C · Owner: Beutnagel, Mark Charles · Inventors: Ostermann, Joern; Beutnagel, Mark Charles; Basso, Andrea
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According to MPEG-4's TTS architecture facial animation can be driven by, two streams simultaneously - text and Facial Animation Parameters. In this architecture, text input is sent to a Text-To-Speech converter at a decoder that drives the mouth shapes of the face. Facial Animation Parameters are sent from an encoder to the face over the communication channel. The present invention includes codes(known as bookmarks) in the text string transmitted to the Text-to-Speech converter which bookmarks are placed between words as well as inside them. According to the present invention, the bookmarks carry an encoder time stamp. Due to the nature of text-to-speech conversion, the encoder time stamp …
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