Although Manual Cued Speech (MCS) can greatly facilitate both education and communication for the deaf, its use is limited to situations in which the talker, or a transliterator, is able to produce cues for the cue receiver. The availability of automatically produced cues would substantially relax this restriction. However, it is unclear whether current automatic speech recognition (ASR) techno...

This paper presents the virtual speech cuer built in the context of the ARTUS project aiming at watermarking hand and face gestures of a virtual animated agent in a broadcasted audiovisual sequence. For deaf televiewers that master cued speech, the animated agent can be then superimposed on demand and at the reception on the original broadcast as an alternative to subtitling. The paper presents...

This paper presents the virtual speech cuer built in the context of the ARTUS project aiming at watermarking hand and face gestures of a virtual animated agent in a broadcasted audiovisual sequence. For deaf televiewers that master cued speech, the animated agent can be then superimposed on demand and at the reception on the original broadcast as an alternative to subtitling. The paper presents...

This paper presents the virtual speech cuer built in the context of the ARTUS project aiming at watermarking hand and face gestures of a virtual animated agent in a broadcasted audiovisual sequence. For deaf televiewers that master cued speech, the animated agent can be then incrusted on demand and at the reception in the original broadcast as an alternative to subtitling. The paper presents th...

We assessed the reading and reading-related skills (phonemic awareness and phonological short-term memory) of deaf children fitted with cochlear implants (CI), either exposed to cued speech early (before 2 years old) (CS+) or never (CS-). Their performance was compared to that of 2 hearing control groups, 1 matched for reading level (RL), and 1 matched for chronological age (CA). Phonemic aware...

Speech is the most natural form of communication for human beings and is often described as a unimodal communication channel. However, it is well known that speech is multimodal in nature and includes the auditive, visual, and tactile modalities. Other less natural modalities such as electromyographic signal, invisible articulator display, or brain electrical activity or electromagnetic activit...