Towards Accurate Lip-to-Speech Synthesis in-the-Wild

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Main Authors: Hegde, Sindhu, Mukhopadhyay, Rudrabha, Jawahar, C. V., Namboodiri, Vinay
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author Hegde, Sindhu
Mukhopadhyay, Rudrabha
Jawahar, C. V.
Namboodiri, Vinay
author_facet Hegde, Sindhu
Mukhopadhyay, Rudrabha
Jawahar, C. V.
Namboodiri, Vinay
contents In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to address the task of synthesizing speech from silent videos of any in-the-wild speaker solely based on lip movements. The traditional approach of directly generating speech from lip videos faces the challenge of not being able to learn a robust language model from speech alone, resulting in unsatisfactory outcomes. To overcome this issue, we propose incorporating noisy text supervision using a state-of-the-art lip-to-text network that instills language information into our model. The noisy text is generated using a pre-trained lip-to-text model, enabling our approach to work without text annotations during inference. We design a visual text-to-speech network that utilizes the visual stream to generate accurate speech, which is in-sync with the silent input video. We perform extensive experiments and ablation studies, demonstrating our approach's superiority over the current state-of-the-art methods on various benchmark datasets. Further, we demonstrate an essential practical application of our method in assistive technology by generating speech for an ALS patient who has lost the voice but can make mouth movements. Our demo video, code, and additional details can be found at \url{http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/research/projects/cvit-projects/ms-l2s-itw}.
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spellingShingle Towards Accurate Lip-to-Speech Synthesis in-the-Wild
Hegde, Sindhu
Mukhopadhyay, Rudrabha
Jawahar, C. V.
Namboodiri, Vinay
Multimedia
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to address the task of synthesizing speech from silent videos of any in-the-wild speaker solely based on lip movements. The traditional approach of directly generating speech from lip videos faces the challenge of not being able to learn a robust language model from speech alone, resulting in unsatisfactory outcomes. To overcome this issue, we propose incorporating noisy text supervision using a state-of-the-art lip-to-text network that instills language information into our model. The noisy text is generated using a pre-trained lip-to-text model, enabling our approach to work without text annotations during inference. We design a visual text-to-speech network that utilizes the visual stream to generate accurate speech, which is in-sync with the silent input video. We perform extensive experiments and ablation studies, demonstrating our approach's superiority over the current state-of-the-art methods on various benchmark datasets. Further, we demonstrate an essential practical application of our method in assistive technology by generating speech for an ALS patient who has lost the voice but can make mouth movements. Our demo video, code, and additional details can be found at \url{http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/research/projects/cvit-projects/ms-l2s-itw}.
title Towards Accurate Lip-to-Speech Synthesis in-the-Wild
topic Multimedia
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01087