“Synthetic Speech” by Walsh, Afton-Bird and Wallace

  • ©Michael (Mike) Walsh, Gwenn Afton-Bird, and Kim R-J Wallace


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SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Track:


    02

Title:


    Synthetic Speech

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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

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