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摘要

The integration of synthetic faces and voices (what we call "talking heads") allows to imagine new man-machine interfaces. But before making an extensive use of talking heads, several issues have to be checked according to their acceptability. An important issue is to make sure that the used synthetic voices match to their faces. The scope of this paper is to study the coherence that might exist between synthetic voices and faces. Twenty-four subjects rated the coherence of all combinations between five faces and three voices for female and male talking heads. The main results of this study show that every associations between faces and voices are not relevant and that some associations are better rated than others according to qualitative criteria.