The present invention relates to a device for prosody generation at visual synthesis. A number of half-syllables are stored together with registered movement patterns in a face. At synthesizing of speech, a number of half-syllables are put together to words and sentences. The words and sentences are given a stress and pattern of intonation corresponding to the intended language. In the face a number of points and their movement patterns are further registered. In connection with the generation of words and sentences the movement patterns of the different points are amplified depending on a given stress, sentence intonation. The given movement patterns are after that applied to a model, which is applied to the real face, at which a lifelike animation is obtained, at for instance a translation of a person's speech in a first language to a second language.
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROSODY GENERATION FOR VISUAL SYNTHESIS