This book is a milestone along the path to more accurate speech based interfaces and to a deeper understanding of fundamental mechanisms of human perception and speech recognition.

Inhalt
Speechreading by Humans.- Psychology of Human Speechreading.- Word Recognition in Speechreading.- Children with Hearing Loss: Speechreading Skills.- Differences in Visual Intelligibility Across Talkers.- The Use of Auditory and Visual Information in Phonetic Perception.- Bimodal Speech Perception: A Progress Report.- Auditory-Visual Speech Perception as a Direct Process: The McGurk Effect in Infants and Across Languages.- Seeing Brains Reading Speech: A Review and Speculations.- Perception of Conflicting Audio-Visual Speech: an Examination across Spanish and German.- Audio-Visual Speech Perception Without Speech Cues: A First Report.- Perception of Synthetic Visual Speech.- Homopheneity in speechreading: Effects of phonemic equivalence classes on the structure of the lexicon.- Aspects of Modality in Audio-Visual Processes.- Exploiting sensor fusion architectures and stimuli complementarity in AV speech recognition.- Does movement on the lips mean movement in the mind?.- The Dynamics of Audiovisual Behavior in Speech.- Where and When are the Heard and Seen Speech Integrated: Magnetoencephalographical (MEG) Studies.- Multiphasic Analysis of the Basic Nature of Speechreading.- How can coarticulation models account for speech sensitivity to audio-visual desynchronization?.- Working Memory and Speechreading.- Encoding of Visual Speaker Attributes and Recognition Memory for Spoken Words.- A Study of the Semantic Memory Access by Perceptual Modalities with a Semantic Priming Experiment.- Lips and Jaw Movements for Vowels and Consonants: Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Bimodal Recognition Applications.- Which components of the face do humans and machines best speechread?.- Speechreading by Machines.- Visionary Speech: Looking Ahead to Practical Speechreading Systems.- Talking Heads and Speech Recognisers That Can See: The Computer Processing of Visual Speech Signals.- Automatic Speechreading using dynamic contours.- Active Shape Models for Visual Speech Feature Extraction.- 2D Deformable Models for Visual Speech Analysis.- Fast Matching of a Dynamic Lip Model to Color Video Sequences under Regular Illumination Conditions.- Towards a Robust Speechreading Dialog System.- Robust Face Feature Analysis for Automatic Speachreading and Character Animation.- Time Delay Neural Networks for Articulatory Estimation from Speech: Suitable Subjective Evaluation Protocols.- Relations of Audio and Visual Speech Signals in a Physical Feature Space: Implications for the Hearing-impaired.- On the Integration of Auditory and Visual Parameters in an HMM-based ASR.- Channel Separability in the Audio-Visual Integration of Speech: A Bayesian Approach.- Audiovisual Sensory Integration Using Hidden Markov Models.- Neural-fuzzy networks and phonetic feature recognition as a help for speechreading.- Rationale for Phoneme-Viseme Mapping and Feature Selection in Visual Speech Recognition.- Panel discussions.- Human Speechreading: Learning and Psychophysics.- Human Speechreading: Psychology and Cognition.- Sensory Integration by Humans and Machines.- Databases, Standards and Comparisons.- Machine Recognition and Applications.