ENGLISH TALKING HEAD ADAPTATION FOR LITHUANIAN SPEECH ANIMATION

Abstract

Visual speech animation plays an important role in human-computer interaction. To force already exis- ting English Talking Head speech animation engine to talk Lithuanian, some modifications to the animation script were made. For this adaptation, the relation between English and languages was explored. To determine it, 30 3- dimensional visemes were modeled using the calibration of two orthogonal pictures of phoneme. Using the visual similarity of different English and phonemes, Lithuanian phoneme to English viseme mapping table was defined and used for speech animation.