Using cued speech to clarify speechreading

Tactual Cued Speech as a Supplement to Speechreading

The Cued Speech method devised by Cornett (1967) has proven to be a highly effective means of supplementing the information available through speechreading. For example, highly trained deaf receivers of Cued Speech are able to achieve nearly perfect reception of cued conversational sentences (e.g., Nicholls & Ling, 1982; Uchanski et al., 1992). The success of this method, combined with recent a...

Automatic speechreading of impaired speech

We investigate the use of visual, mouth-region information in improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) of the speech impaired. Given the video of an utterance by such a subject, we first extract appearance-based visual features from the mouth region-of-interest, and we use a feature fusion method to combine them with the subject’s audio features into bimodal observations. Subsequently, we a...

A Persian Cued Speech Website Fromthe Deaf Professionals’ Views

Objectives: Increasingly people are using the internet to find information about medical and educational issues and one of the simplest ways to obtain information is internet. Persian Cued Speech is a very new system to Iranian families with deaf child and the professionals and a few educators have enough knowledge about it, so the purpose of this study was to introduce Persian Cued Speech webs...

Speechreading Using Probabilistic Models Speechreading Using Probabilistic Models

A robust method for locating and tracking lips in gray level image sequences is described The method learns patterns of shape variability from a training set which constrains the model during image search to only deform in ways similar to the training examples Image search is guided by a learned gray level model which is used to describe the large appearance variability of lips Such variability...

Speechreading using Probabilistic Models