Chinese 3D Ariticulatory Movement Synthesis and Animation
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    In order to help the hearing loss children, we obtained hearing loss children’s fallible pronunciation texts and the confusing pronunciation text pairs form a good deal of hearing loss children’s audio pronunciation data. We designed a data-driven 3D talking head articulatory animation system, it was driven by the articulatory movements which were collected from a device called Electro-magnetic articulography (EMA) AG500, the system simulated Chinese articulation realistically. In that way, the hearing loss children can observe the speaker’s lips and tongue’s motions during the speaker pronouncing, which could help the hearing loss children train pronunciation and correct the fallible pronunciations. Finally, a perception test was applied to evaluate the system’s performance. The results showed that the 3D talking head system can animate both internal and external articulatory motions effectively. A modified CM model based synthesis method was used to generate the articulatory movements. The root mean square between the real articulatory movements and synthetic articulatory movements was used to measure the synthesis method, and an average value of RMS is 1.25 mm.

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Zheng Hongna, Zhu Yun, Wang LAN, et al. Chinese 3D Ariticulatory Movement Synthesis and Animation[J]. Journal of Integration Technology,2013,2(1):23-28

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