Automatic speech recognition systems attain high performance for close-talking applications, but they deteriorate significantly in distant-talking environment. The reason is the mismatch between training and testing conditions. We have carried out a research work for a better understanding of the effects of room acoustics on speech feature by comparing simultaneous recordings of close talking a...

We present a technique for the animation of a 3D kinematic tongue model, one component of the talking head of an acoustic-visual (AV) speech synthesizer. The skeletal animation approach is adapted to make use of a deformable rig controlled by tongue motion capture data obtained with electromagnetic articulography (EMA), while the tongue surface is extracted from volumetric magnetic resonance im...