Abstract
The speed that an utterance is spoken affects both the duration of the speech and the position of the articulators. Consequently, the sounds that are produced are modified, as are the position and appearance of the lips, teeth, tongue and other visible articulators. We describe an experiment designed to measure the effect of variable speaking rate on audio and visual speech by comparing sequences of phonemes and dynamic visemes appearing in the same sentences spoken at different speeds. We find that both audio and visual speech production are affected by varying the rate of speech, however, the effect is significantly more prominent in visual speech.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2014 |
| Event | IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Florence, Italy Duration: 4 May 2014 → 9 May 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Florence |
| Period | 4/05/14 → 9/05/14 |
Keywords
- Audio-visual speech
- speaking rate
- dynamic visemes