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The recent advances introduced by neural machine translation (NMT) are rapidly expanding the application fields of machine translation, as well as reshaping the quality level to be targeted. In particular, if translations have to fit some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Surafel Melaku Lakew , Mattia Di Gangi , Marcello Federico

Automatic dubbing (AD) is among the machine translation (MT) use cases where translations should match a given length to allow for synchronicity between source and target speech. For neural MT, generating translations of length close to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Surafel M. Lakew , Yogesh Virkar , Prashant Mathur , Marcello Federico

Automatic subtitling is the task of automatically translating the speech of audiovisual content into short pieces of timed text, i.e. subtitles and their corresponding timestamps. The generated subtitles need to conform to space and time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sara Papi , Marco Gaido , Alina Karakanta , Mauro Cettolo , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Given a script, the challenge in Movie Dubbing (Visual Voice Cloning, V2C) is to generate speech that aligns well with the video in both time and emotion, based on the tone of a reference audio track. Existing state-of-the-art V2C models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Gaoxiang Cong , Yuankai Qi , Liang Li , Amin Beheshti , Zhedong Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Chenggang Yan , Qingming Huang

Given a piece of text, a video clip and a reference audio, the movie dubbing (also known as visual voice clone V2C) task aims to generate speeches that match the speaker's emotion presented in the video using the desired speaker voice as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Gaoxiang Cong , Liang Li , Yuankai Qi , Zhengjun Zha , Qi Wu , Wenyu Wang , Bin Jiang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Qingming Huang

The automatic movie dubbing model generates vivid speech from given scripts, replicating a speaker's timbre from a brief timbre prompt while ensuring lip-sync with the silent video. Existing approaches simulate a simplified workflow where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Rui Liu , Yuan Zhao , Zhenqi Jia

Movie dubbing describes the process of transforming a script into speech that aligns temporally and emotionally with a given movie clip while exemplifying the speaker's voice demonstrated in a short reference audio clip. This task demands…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zhedong Zhang , Liang Li , Chenggang Yan , Chunshan Liu , Anton van den Hengel , Yuankai Qi

In this paper, we propose a neural end-to-end system for voice preserving, lip-synchronous translation of videos. The system is designed to combine multiple component models and produces a video of the original speaker speaking in the…

Video dubbing aims to generate high-fidelity speech that is precisely temporally aligned with the visual content. Existing methods still suffer from limitations in speech naturalness and audio-visual synchronization, and are limited to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Kaidi Wang , Yi He , Wenhao Guan , Weijie Wu , Hongwu Ding , Xiong Zhang , Di Wu , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Visual dubbing is the process of generating lip motions of an actor in a video to synchronise with given audio. Recent advances have made progress towards this goal but have not been able to produce an approach suitable for mass adoption.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jack Saunders , Vinay Namboodiri

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

Subtitling is becoming increasingly important for disseminating information, given the enormous amounts of audiovisual content becoming available daily. Although Neural Machine Translation (NMT) can speed up the process of translating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Alina Karakanta , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

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

Cross-lingual dubbing of lecture videos requires the transcription of the original audio, correction and removal of disfluencies, domain term discovery, text-to-text translation into the target language, chunking of text using target…

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

Recent breakthroughs in video AIGC have ushered in a transformative era for audio-driven human animation. However, conventional video dubbing techniques remain constrained to mouth region editing, resulting in discordant facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shaoshu Yang , Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Meng Cheng , Xiangyu Liu , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Wenhan Luo , Xunliang Cai , Ran He , Xiaoming Wei

Multimodal machine translation involves drawing information from more than one modality, based on the assumption that the additional modalities will contain useful alternative views of the input data. The most prominent tasks in this area…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Umut Sulubacak , Ozan Caglayan , Stig-Arne Grönroos , Aku Rouhe , Desmond Elliott , Lucia Specia , Jörg Tiedemann

Current movie dubbing technology can generate the desired voice from a given speech prompt, ensuring good synchronization between speech and visuals while accurately conveying the intended emotions. However, in movie dubbing, key aspects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junjie Zheng , Zihao Chen , Chaofan Ding , Xinhan Di

Bridging vision and natural language is a longstanding goal in computer vision and multimedia research. While earlier works focus on generating a single-sentence description for visual content, recent works have studied paragraph…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

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