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CHAPTER 68
Inferring Prosody from
Facial Cues for EMG-based
Synthesis of Silent Speech
Christian Johner, Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz
Cognitive Systems Laboratory
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
{
christian.johner@student.kit.edu,
matthias.janke, michael.wand, tanja.schultz}@kit.edu
ABSTRACT
In this paper we introduce a system which is able to detect prosodic elements in
a spoken utterance based on signals from the facial muscles. The proposed system
can augment our surface electromyography (EMG) based Silent Speech Interface in
order to make synthesized speech more natural. Having shown in (Nakamura,
Janke,