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

Youngjoon Jang · Jihoon Kim · Junseok Ahn · Doyeop Kwak · Hongsun Yang · Yooncheol Ju · ILHWAN KIM · Byeong-Yeol Kim · Joon Chung

Arch 4A-E Poster #390
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Wed 19 Jun 5 p.m. PDT — 6:30 p.m. PDT

Abstract:

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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