0Augmented Reality Talking Heads as a Support for Speech Perception and Production

Visual face gestures, such as lip, head and eyebrow movements, are important in all human speech communication as a support to the acoustic signal. This is true even if the speaker’s face is computer-animated. The visual information about the phonemes, i.e. speech sounds, results in better speech perception (Benoît et al., 1994; Massaro, 1998) and the benefit is all th