Progress in animation of an EMA-controlled tongue model for   acoustic-visual speech synthesis
  We present a technique for the animation of a 3D kinematic tongue model, one component of the talking head of an acoustic-visual (AV) speech synthesizer. The skeletal animation approach is adapted to make use of a deformable rig controlled by tongue motion capture data obtained with electromagnetic articulography (EMA), while the tongue surface is extracted from volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Initial results are shown and future work outlined. 
Ingmar Steiner (INRIA Lorraine - LORIA), Slim Ouni (INRIA Lorraine -   LORIA)
cs.AI