Disproving visemes as the basic visual unit of speech
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Authors
Ramage, Matthew David
Date
2013Supervisor
Euan David Lindsay
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
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School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Abstract
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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