Synthesis of Chinese Sign Language Prosody Based on Head

The movement of the head not only helps to express sign language vividly, but also has specific meaning in sign language. In the effect of context, for example, emphasize, and the different personalities, the range and speed of the movement of head will be a great change. On the analysis of the characteristic of Chinese sign language words, this article establishes a set of rules of Sign language behavior and also proposes a parametric synthesis method of changing the range of head movement which is based on thought of motion deviation mapping. And then applies it to the emphasizing the prosody model of Chinese sign language synthesis system. Experimental results show that this method will realize any emphasis prosodic expression of head movement and raise the intelligibility and sense of reality of the sign language effectively.