Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech
Visemes are groups of phonemes that are considered visually indistinguishable, but there are many doubts regarding their use in visual speech recognition. In this thesis, a visual speech recogniser is constructed to test the validity of visemes. Examining the phoneme output of the recogniser shows t...
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2013
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| description | Visemes are groups of phonemes that are considered visually indistinguishable, but there are many doubts regarding their use in visual speech recognition. In this thesis, a visual speech recogniser is constructed to test the validity of visemes. Examining the phoneme output of the recogniser shows that it is not possible to construct a viseme grouping that exhibits the required phoneme confusion characteristics. This thesis proves that phonemes, not visemes, are the basic visual unit of speech. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-16182017-02-20T06:38:23Z Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech Ramage, Matthew David Visemes are groups of phonemes that are considered visually indistinguishable, but there are many doubts regarding their use in visual speech recognition. In this thesis, a visual speech recogniser is constructed to test the validity of visemes. Examining the phoneme output of the recogniser shows that it is not possible to construct a viseme grouping that exhibits the required phoneme confusion characteristics. This thesis proves that phonemes, not visemes, are the basic visual unit of speech. 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1618 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Ramage, Matthew David Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech |
| title | Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech |
| title_full | Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech |
| title_fullStr | Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech |
| title_short | Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech |
| title_sort | disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1618 |