HCOct 7, 2020
Designing, Playing, and Performing with a Vision-based Mouth InterfaceMichael J. Lyons, Michael Haehnel, Nobuji Tetsutani
The role of the face and mouth in speech production as well asnon-verbal communication suggests the use of facial action tocontrol musical sound. Here we document work on theMouthesizer, a system which uses a headworn miniaturecamera and computer vision algorithm to extract shapeparameters from the mouth opening and output these as MIDIcontrol changes. We report our experience with variousgesture-to-sound mappings and musical applications, anddescribe a live performance which used the Mouthesizerinterface.