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Czech Artificial Computerized Talking Head George

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Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions

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This contribution is about a computer-implemented Czech speaking talking head called “George”. This talking head is based on a fully parametric photo-realistic 3D model of human head. The creation and development of this talking head is described here in detail. The talking head George produces realistic animation of face, lips and jaw movements synchronized with either synthetic speech from Czech text to speech synthesis system. The potential applications with this artificial talking head are described in the last part of this paper.

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  1. Institute of Information Technology, Technical University of Liberec, Studentska 2, 461 17, Liberec, Czech Republic

    Josef Chaloupka

  2. Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

    Zdenek Chaloupka

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  1. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, and IIASS, Via G. Pellegrino 19, 84019, Vietri sul Mare, (SA), Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Chaberská 57, 182 52, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    Robert Vích

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Chaloupka, J., Chaloupka, Z. (2009). Czech Artificial Computerized Talking Head George. In: Esposito, A., Vích, R. (eds) Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5641. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03320-9_30

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