公开(公告)号：GB2328849A

公开(公告)日：1999-03-03

申请号：GB9815620

申请日：1998-07-20

Applicant: MOTOROLA INC

Inventor： MASSEY NOEL ,  KARAALI ORHAN ,  SCHNUR OTTO

IPC: G10L21/10 ,  G10L25/30 ,  G06F3/14

Abstract: A neural network based parameter system 118 is used for generating a virtual actor (visually-rendered model with speech 132) of which the movements are correlated with synthetic speech.Text 102, used to drive the virtual actor, is converted 104 to a linguistic representation of speech 106, which is converted to neural network linguistic parameters 110 by pre-processor 108. The neural network module 112 converts the neural network linguistic parameters into raw spatial parameters 114, which are finally converted into model parameters 120 by a post-processor 116. These model parameters 120 are then used to drive the virtual actors. Alternatively, a non-neural network based linguistics-to-speech module is used to convert the linguistic representation of speech 106. The speaker profile of a linguistics-to-speech module 126 provides data to change the characteristics of the alternatively-synthesized speech 128.

公开(公告)号：GB2328849B

公开(公告)日：2000-07-12

申请号：GB9815620

申请日：1998-07-20

Applicant: MOTOROLA INC

Inventor： MASSEY NOEL ,  KARAALI ORHAN ,  SCHNUR OTTO

IPC: G10L21/10 ,  G10L25/30 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06T15/70