1. A computer-implemented method for generating photo-realistic facial animation with speech, comprising: generating in a computer storage medium a statistical model of audiovisual data over time, based on acoustic feature vectors and visual feature vectors from audiovisual data of an individual's articulators during speech; generating using a computer processor a visual feature vector sequence using the statistical model corresponding to an input set of acoustic feature vectors for speech with which the facial animation is to be synchronized; creating using a computer processor an image sample sequence from an image library using the generated visual feature vector sequence; and processing the image sample sequence to provide the photo-realistic facial animation synchronized with the speech.