@inproceedings{fc13c3c818854350820fbeb21061e5a8,
title = "Speech driven facial animation using HMMs in Basque",
abstract = "Nowadays, the presence of virtual characters is less and less surprising in daily life. However, there is a lack of resources and tools available in the area of visual speech technologies for minority languages. In this paper we present an application to animate in real time virtual characters from live speech in Basque. To get a realistic face animation, the lips must be synchronized with the audio. To accomplish this, we have compared different methods for obtaining the final visemes through HMM based speech recognition techniques. Finally, the implementation of a real prototype has proven the feasibility to obtain a quite natural animation in real time with a minimum amount of training data.",
author = "Maider Lehr and Andoni Arruti and Amalia Ortiz and David Oyarzun and Michael Obach",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/11846406\_52",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540390901",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "415--422",
booktitle = "Text, Speech and Dialogue - 9th International Conference, TSD 2006, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
note = "9th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2006 ; Conference date: 11-09-2006 Through 15-09-2006",
}