Automatic visual-only language identification: A preliminary study

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Newman, Jacob and Cox, Stephen (2009) Automatic visual-only language identification: A preliminary study. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009-04-19 - 2009-04-24.

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Abstract

We describe experiments in visual-only language identification, in which only lip-shape and lip-motion are used to determine the language of a spoken utterance. We focus on the task of discriminating between two or three languages spoken by the same speaker, and we have recorded a suitable database for these experiments. We use a standard audio language identification approach in which the feature vectors are tokenized and then a language model for each language is estimated over a stream of tokens. Although rate of speaking appeared to affect our results, it was found that different languages spoken at rather similar speeds were as well discriminated as a single language spoken at three extreme speeds, indicating that there is a language effect present in our results.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Interactive Graphics and Audio Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Smart Emerging Technologies
Related URLs:	http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.11...
Depositing User:	Nicola Talbot
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2011 09:18
Last Modified:	06 Aug 2023 00:43
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26023
DOI:	10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960591

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