This thesis addresses how verbal comprehension is affected by seeing the speaker and in
particular when the speaker is an animated virtual speaker. Two people visually co-present …

Aim: Seeing a speaker's face facilitates speech recognition, particularly under noisy
conditions. Evidence for how it might affect comprehension of the content of the speech is …

We investigated audio-visual (AV) perceptual integration by examining the effect of seeing
the speaker's synchronised moving face on masked-speech detection ability. Signal …

Familiar speakers can be recognized from seeing their idiosyncratic realization of visual
speech [1], suggesting the long-term storage of facial dynamic signatures for speakers …

The study examined whether people can extract speech related information from the talker's
upper face that was presented using either normally textured videos (Experiments 1 and 3) …

Attending to a single voice when multiple voices are present is a challenging but common
occurrence. An experiment was conducted to determine (a) whether presenting a video …

This paper presents a study where a 3D motion-capture animated 'virtual speaker'is
compared to a video of a real speaker with regards to how it facilitates children's speech …

In everyday life, we often encounter conversational situations consisting of three or more
people, where one person is mainly a listener while others speak. The listener has to …

Speakers are thought to articulate individual words in running speech less carefully
whenever additional nonacoustic information can help listeners recognize what is said …

Realizing effective listening behavior in virtual humans has become a key area of research,
especially as research has sought to realize more complex social scenarios involving …