“Synthetic Speech” by Walsh, Afton-Bird and Wallace
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 02
Title:
- Synthetic Speech
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Autometric, Inc.
Description:
Creation of realistic, three-dimensional, synthetic human speech and animation is an ongoing R&D project at Autometric, Inc. Speech-acoustic and motion-capture data were gathered at Biomechanics Inc, analyzed with computer speech recognition techniques and Principal Component Analysis at Entropic Research Labs, and rendered using Maya software.
Additional Contributors:
Producer: Gwenn Afton-Bird, Kim R-J Wallace, Michael Walsh
Autometric, Inc.: Mike Darweesh, Thom Goertel, Melissa Durley
The Creative Visualization Division: Entropic Research Labs: David Talkin, Levent Arslan,
Francisco Gimenez de los Galanes, Jack Unverferth
Special Thanks: Biomechanics, Inc., Greg Dismond, Tony Moraco, Mike
