Statistical Definition of Visual Information for Italian Vowels and Consonants

The aim of this research is to identify visual cues for
Italian vocalic and consonantal visemes on a articulatory
basis and to verify the results of visual intelligibility
tests. These data will be useful when performing
cross-linguistic comparisons, in defining
some relevant visual parameters and variation ranges
which could be used in the development of bimodal
automatic speech synthesis and recognition systems.