Faces that Speak: Jointly Synthesising Talking Face and Speech from Text

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Main Authors: Jang, Youngjoon, Kim, Ji-Hoon, Ahn, Junseok, Kwak, Doyeop, Yang, Hong-Sun, Ju, Yoon-Cheol, Kim, Il-Hwan, Kim, Byeong-Yeol, Chung, Joon Son
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author Jang, Youngjoon
Kim, Ji-Hoon
Ahn, Junseok
Kwak, Doyeop
Yang, Hong-Sun
Ju, Yoon-Cheol
Kim, Il-Hwan
Kim, Byeong-Yeol
Chung, Joon Son
author_facet Jang, Youngjoon
Kim, Ji-Hoon
Ahn, Junseok
Kwak, Doyeop
Yang, Hong-Sun
Ju, Yoon-Cheol
Kim, Il-Hwan
Kim, Byeong-Yeol
Chung, Joon Son
contents The goal of this work is to simultaneously generate natural talking faces and speech outputs from text. We achieve this by integrating Talking Face Generation (TFG) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems into a unified framework. We address the main challenges of each task: (1) generating a range of head poses representative of real-world scenarios, and (2) ensuring voice consistency despite variations in facial motion for the same identity. To tackle these issues, we introduce a motion sampler based on conditional flow matching, which is capable of high-quality motion code generation in an efficient way. Moreover, we introduce a novel conditioning method for the TTS system, which utilises motion-removed features from the TFG model to yield uniform speech outputs. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that our method effectively creates natural-looking talking faces and speech that accurately match the input text. To our knowledge, this is the first effort to build a multimodal synthesis system that can generalise to unseen identities.
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spellingShingle Faces that Speak: Jointly Synthesising Talking Face and Speech from Text
Jang, Youngjoon
Kim, Ji-Hoon
Ahn, Junseok
Kwak, Doyeop
Yang, Hong-Sun
Ju, Yoon-Cheol
Kim, Il-Hwan
Kim, Byeong-Yeol
Chung, Joon Son
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Image and Video Processing
The goal of this work is to simultaneously generate natural talking faces and speech outputs from text. We achieve this by integrating Talking Face Generation (TFG) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems into a unified framework. We address the main challenges of each task: (1) generating a range of head poses representative of real-world scenarios, and (2) ensuring voice consistency despite variations in facial motion for the same identity. To tackle these issues, we introduce a motion sampler based on conditional flow matching, which is capable of high-quality motion code generation in an efficient way. Moreover, we introduce a novel conditioning method for the TTS system, which utilises motion-removed features from the TFG model to yield uniform speech outputs. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that our method effectively creates natural-looking talking faces and speech that accurately match the input text. To our knowledge, this is the first effort to build a multimodal synthesis system that can generalise to unseen identities.
title Faces that Speak: Jointly Synthesising Talking Face and Speech from Text
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10272