Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications (IVTTA'98) Torino, Italy September 29-30, 1998

Teleface - The Use of a Synthetic Face for the Hard of Hearing

Eva Agelfors, Jonas Beskow, Martin Dahlquist, Björn Granström, Magnus Lundeberg, Karl-Erik Spens, Tobias Öhman

Centre for Speech Technology (CTT), Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

In the Teleface project the possibilities for a visual telephone communication aid for hearing impaired persons are being evaluated. Multimodal speech intelligibility experiments showed a marked intelligibility advantage for the addition of the face information, both for natural and synthetic faces. This is valid for hearing impaired persons as well as for normal-hearing persons in a noisy environment. In this paper we present results from two series of tests with hearing impaired subjects. Keywords: multimodal, speech synthesis, speech recognition, hearing impairment.

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Bibliographic reference.  Agelfors, Eva / Beskow, Jonas / Dahlquist, Martin / Granström, Björn / Lundeberg, Magnus / Spens, Karl-Erik / Öhman, Tobias (1998): "Teleface - the use of a synthetic face for the hard of hearing", In IVTTA'98, 130-134.