Talking heads for interacting with spoken dialog smart-home systems
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In this paper the relation between the quality of a talking head as an output component of a spoken dialog system and the quality of the system itself is investigated. Results show that the quality of the talking head has indeed an important impact on system quality. The quality of the talking head itself is found to be influenced by visual and speech quality and the synchronization of voice and lip movement.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009