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2. Background Description Audio-driven facial animation is an interesting and evolv ing technique in the field of human-computer interaction. The realization of a natural and friendly interface is very important in human-computer interface. Speech recognition and computer lip-reading has been developed as a means of input for information interaction with the machine. It is also important to provide a natural and friendly means to render the information. Visual speech Synthesis is very important in this respect as it can provide various kinds of animated computer agents which look very realistic. Furthermore, it can also be used for distance learning applications where it can obviate the transmission of Video. It can also be a useful tool for hearing impaired people to compensate for lack of auditory information.

Techniques exist for Synthesizing the Speech given the text as input to the System. These text to speech …