Representational momentum (RM) has been found to be magnified in experts (e.g., sport players) with respect to both real and implied motion in expert-familiar domains. However, it remains unclear whether similar effects can be achieved in expert-unfamiliar domains, especially within the context of implied motion. To answer this question, we conducted two independent experiments using an implied...

This study examined the influence of mixing faces and voices on the audiovisual intelligibility. The goal is to study the effect of combining two sources of information on the audiovisual intelligibility. Cross-talker dubbing was performed between faces and voices of 10 meaningful sentences pronounced by 10 talkers: 5 females and 5 males. Human subjects were asked to rate the articulation of th...

Voice conversion (VC) is an area of speech processing that deals with the conversion of the perceived speaker identity. In other words, the speech signal uttered by a first speaker, the source speaker, is modified to sound as if it was spoken by a second speaker, referred to as the target speaker. The most obvious use case for voice conversion is text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis where VC techniqu...

This paper describes a technique to obtain a time dilation or contraction of an audio signal. Different Computer Graphics applications can take advantage of this technique. In real-time networked VR applications, such as teleconference or games, audio might be transmited independently from the rest of the data, These different signals arrive asynchronously and need to be somehow resynchronized ...

This study examined sources of talker differences in the McGurk effect, by questioning which of auditory speech or visual speech is more determining the size of the McGurk effect. Cross-talker dubbing was done between faces and voices of utterances (/ba/ and /ga/) pronounced by two talkers: one compelling talker (CT) to the McGurk effect, and one less compelling talker (LT), as measured in our ...

The CINEMO corpus of French emotional speech provides a richly annotated resource to help overcome the apparent lack of learning and testing speech material for complex, i. e. blended or mixed emotions. The protocol for its collection was dubbing selected emotional scenes from French movies. 51 speakers are contained and the total speech time amounts to 2 hours and 13 minutes and 4 k speech chu...

Many multimedia applications and entertainment industry products like games, cartoons and film dubbing require speech driven face animation and audio-video synchronization. Only Automatic Speech Recognition system (ASR) does not give good results in noisy environment. Audio Visual Speech Recognition system plays vital role in such harsh environment as it uses both – audio and visual – informati...

A new voice conversion method that improves the quality of the voice conversion output at higher sampling rates is proposed. Speaker Transformation Algorithm Using Segmental Codebooks (STASC) is modified to process source and target speech spectra in different subbands. The new method ensures better conversion at sampling rates above 16KHz. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is employed for subba...