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Automatic Video Dubbing (AVD) generates speech aligned with lip motion and facial emotion from scripts. Recent research focuses on modeling multimodal context to enhance prosody expressiveness but overlooks two key issues: 1) Multiscale…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuan Zhao , Rui Liu , Gaoxiang Cong

Movie Dubbing aims to convert scripts into speeches that align with the given movie clip in both temporal and emotional aspects while preserving the vocal timbre of a given brief reference audio. Existing methods focus primarily on reducing…

Visual dubbing, the synchronization of facial movements with new speech, is crucial for making content accessible across different languages, enabling broader global reach. However, current methods face significant limitations. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Binyamin Manela , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetyaya

This paper introduces a cross-lingual dubbing system that translates speech from one language to another while preserving key characteristics such as duration, speaker identity, and speaking speed. Despite the strong translation quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jeongsoo Choi , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

Existing automated dubbing methods are usually designed for Professionally Generated Content (PGC) production, which requires massive training data and training time to learn a person-specific audio-video mapping. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Linsen Song , Wayne Wu , Chaoyou Fu , Chen Change Loy , Ran He

Automatic dubbing (AD) is the task of translating the original speech in a video into target language speech. The new target language speech should satisfy isochrony; that is, the new speech should be time aligned with the original video,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Alexandra Chronopoulou , Brian Thompson , Prashant Mathur , Yogesh Virkar , Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico

Video dubbing aims to synthesize realistic, lip-synced videos from a reference video and a driving audio signal. Although existing methods can accurately generate mouth shapes driven by audio, they often fail to preserve identity-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Runzhen Liu , Qinjie Lin , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Yu Li , Chuhua Xian , Fa-Ting Hong

Automatic dubbing aims at seamlessly replacing the speech in a video document with synthetic speech in a different language. The task implies many challenges, one of which is generating translations that not only convey the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico , Yue Wang , Cuong Hoang , Yogesh Virkar , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Robert Enyedi

We investigate how humans perform the task of dubbing video content from one language into another, leveraging a novel corpus of 319.57 hours of video from 54 professionally produced titles. This is the first such large-scale study we are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 William Brannon , Yogesh Virkar , Brian Thompson

The pipeline for multi-participant audiobook production primarily consists of three stages: script analysis, character voice timbre selection, and speech synthesis. Among these, script analysis can be automated with high accuracy using NLP…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Ziqi Dai , Yiting Chen , Jiacheng Xu , Liufei Xie , Yuchen Wang , Zhenchuan Yang , Bingsong Bai , Yangsheng Gao , Wenjiang Zhou , Weifeng Zhao , Ruohua Zhou

The task of few-shot visual dubbing focuses on synchronizing the lip movements with arbitrary speech input for any talking head video. Albeit moderate improvements in current approaches, they commonly require high-quality homologous data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tianyi Xie , Liucheng Liao , Cheng Bi , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Jianfei Yang , Mingjie Wang , Jiali Yao , Yang Zhang , Zejun Ma

Talking-head video editing aims to efficiently insert, delete, and substitute the word of a pre-recorded video through a text transcript editor. The key challenge for this task is obtaining an editing model that generates new talking-head…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Jun Ling , Bo Peng , Xu Tan , Jing Dong

Current movie dubbing technology can produce the desired speech using a reference voice and input video, maintaining perfect synchronization with the visuals while effectively conveying the intended emotions. However, crucial aspects of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Junjie Zheng , Zihao Chen , Chaofan Ding , Yunming Liang , Yihan Fan , Huan Yang , Lei Xie , Xinhan Di

Audio-Visual Foundation Models, which are pretrained to jointly generate sound and visual content, have recently shown an unprecedented ability to model multi-modal generation and editing, opening new opportunities for downstream tasks.…

Automatic dubbing, which generates a corresponding version of the input speech in another language, could be widely utilized in many real-world scenarios such as video and game localization. In addition to synthesizing the translated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jingbei Li , Sipan Li , Ping Chen , Luwen Zhang , Yi Meng , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

The task of Visual Text-to-Speech (VisualTTS), also known as video dubbing, aims to generate speech synchronized with the lip movements in an input video, in additional to being consistent with the content of input text and cloning the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuyue Wang , Xin Cheng , Yihan Wu , Xihua Wang , Jinchuan Tian , Ruihua Song

In order to be widely applicable, speech-driven 3D head avatars must articulate their lips in accordance with speech, while also conveying the appropriate emotions with dynamically changing facial expressions. The key problem is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Radek Daněček , Carolin Schmitt , Senya Polikovsky , Michael J. Black

Dubbed series are gaining a lot of popularity in recent years with strong support from major media service providers. Such popularity is fueled by studies that showed that dubbed versions of TV shows are more popular than their subtitled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Massa Baali , Wassim El-Hajj , Ahmed Ali

Dubbing puppet videos to make the characters (e.g. Kermit the Frog) convincingly speak a new speech track is a popular activity with many examples of well-known puppets speaking lines from films or singing rap songs. But manually aligning…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ohad Fried , Maneesh Agrawala

Dense video captioning is a task of localizing interesting events from an untrimmed video and producing textual description (captions) for each localized event. Most of the previous works in dense video captioning are solely based on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu