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US 2004/0107106 A1Published application
Apparatus and methods for generating visual representations of speech verbalized by any of a population of personas
AssigneeSpeechview Ltd.
InventorsNachshon Margaliot, Gad Blilious
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Abstract
A system for enhancing an audio reception experience including a visual output device, visual content storage supplying visual content to the visual output device, an audio player operative to play audio content containing non-synthesized voice, and an audio-visual coordinator operative to cause the visual output device to display the visual content in a manner coordinated with the non-synthesized voice.
Claims53
A system for enhancing an audio reception experience comprising:
- a visual output device;
- visual content storage supplying visual content to said visual output device;
- an audio player operative to play audio content containing non-synthesized voice;
- and
- an audio-visual coordinator operative to cause said visual output device to display said visual content in a manner coordinated with said non-synthesized voice.
2 more elements
A system for enhancing an audio reception experience comprising:
- a three-dimensional animated visual output device;
- visual content storage supplying visual content to said visual output device;
- an audio player operative to play audio content containing voice;
- and
- an audio-visual coordinator operative to cause said visual output device to display said visual content in a manner coordinated with said voice.
2 more elements
A system for enhancing an audio reception experience comprising:
- a visual output device;
- visual content storage supplying visual content to said visual output device;
- an audio player operative to play audio content containing voice;
- and
- an audio-visual coordinator operative to cause said visual output device to display said visual content in a manner coordinated with said voice, said audio-visual coordinator being operative to extract phonemes from said voice and to match said phonemes to visemes in said visual content.
2 more elements
For use with a visual output device and an audio player operative to play audio content,
- an audio reception experience enhancement module comprising:
- visual content storage supplying visual content to said visual output device;
- and
- an audio-visual coordinator operative to cause said visual output device to display said visual content in a manner coordinated with said audio content.
1 more element
For use with a three-dimensional animated visual output device and an audio player operative to play audio content,
- an audio reception experience enhancement module comprising:
- visual content storage supplying visual content to said visual output device;
- and
- an audio-visual coordinator operative to cause said visual output device to display said visual content in a manner coordinated with said audio content.
1 more element
For use with a visual output device and an audio player operative to play audio content,
- an audio reception experience enhancement module comprising:
- visual content storage supplying visual content to said visual output device;
- and
- an audio-visual coordinator operative to cause said visual output device to display said visual content in a manner coordinated with said audio content, said audio-visual coordinator being operative to extract phonemes from said audio content and to match said phonemes to visemes in said visual content.
1 more element
Apparatus for generating a visual representation of speech comprising:
- a reservoir of viseme profiles storing at least one viseme profile, each viseme profile including a complete set of visemes respectively depicting different speech production positions of a persona, each viseme profile being linked to information identifying its persona;
- a phoneme extractor operative to receive a speech input and to derive therefrom a timed sequence of phonemes included therewithin;
- and
- a visual speech representation generator operative to access a viseme profile from said reservoir and to present a visual representation to accompany said speech input, the visual representation including a viseme sequence formed from visemes included in the viseme profile which respectively match the phonemes in said timed sequence, wherein the visual representation generator presents each viseme generally simultaneously with its matching phoneme.
1 more element
A method for generating a visual representation of speech comprising:
- providing a reservoir of viseme profiles storing at least one viseme profile, each viseme profile including a complete set of visemes respectively depicting different speech production positions of a persona, each viseme profile being linked to information identifying its persona;
- receiving a speech input and deriving therefrom a timed sequence of phonemes included therewithin;
- and
- accessing a viseme profile from said reservoir and presenting a visual representation to accompany said speech input, the visual representation including a viseme sequence formed from visemes included in the viseme profile which respectively match the phonemes in said timed sequence, wherein each viseme is presented generally simultaneously with its matching phoneme.
1 more element
Apparatus for generating a visual representation of speech comprising:
- a toy having several speech production positions;
- a speech production position memory associating each phoneme in a language with an individual one of the speech production positions;
- a phoneme extractor operative to receive a speech input, to derive therefrom a timed sequence of phonemes included therewithin, and to derive therefrom, using said speech production position memory, a correspondingly timed sequence of speech production positions respectively corresponding to the phonemes in said timed sequence;
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- a toy speech position controller operative to actuate the toy to adopt said correspondingly timed sequence of speech production positions.
2 more elements
A business card comprising:
- a card presenting contact information regarding a bearer of the card including information facilitating access to a viseme profile of the bearer.
Stationery apparatus comprising:
- stationery paper including a header presenting contact information for at least one individual including information facilitating access to a viseme profile of at least one individual.
A website comprising:
- a web page presenting contact information for at least one individual associated with the website including information facilitating access to a viseme profile of the individual.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.