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In this study, we propose a deep neural network for reconstructing intelligible speech from silent lip movement videos. We use auditory spectrogram as spectral representation of speech and its corresponding sound generation method resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Hassan Akbari , Himani Arora , Liangliang Cao , Nima Mesgarani

Articulatory-to-acoustic (A2A) synthesis refers to the generation of audible speech from captured movement of the speech articulators. This technique has numerous applications, such as restoring oral communication to people who cannot…

In this project, we aim to build a Text-to-Speech system able to produce speech with a controllable emotional expressiveness. We propose a methodology for solving this problem in three main steps. The first is the collection of emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Noé Tits

Person-generic audio-driven face generation is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods have achieved remarkable progress in audio-visual synchronization, but there is still a significant gap between current results and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaozhong Ji , Chuming Lin , Zhonggan Ding , Ying Tai , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yanhao Ge , Chengjie Wang

Generating consecutive images of lip movements that align with a given speech in audio-driven lip synthesis is a challenging task. While previous studies have made strides in synchronization and visual quality, lip intelligibility and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shiyan Liu , Rui Qu , Yan Jin

Modeling voices for multiple speakers and multiple languages in one text-to-speech system has been a challenge for a long time. This paper presents an extension on Tacotron2 to achieve bilingual multispeaker speech synthesis when there are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-22 Zexin Cai , Yaogen Yang , Ming Li

Single-stage text-to-speech models have been actively studied recently, and their results have outperformed two-stage pipeline systems. Although the previous single-stage model has made great progress, there is room for improvement in terms…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jungil Kong , Jihoon Park , Beomjeong Kim , Jeongmin Kim , Dohee Kong , Sangjin Kim

Lip-reading aims to recognize speech content from videos via visual analysis of speakers' lip movements. This is a challenging task due to the existence of homophemes-words which involve identical or highly similar lip movements, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Chenhao Wang

Controllable speech synthesis aims to control the style of generated speech using reference input, which can be of various modalities. Existing face-based methods struggle with robustness and generalization due to data quality constraints,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Rui Niu , Weihao Wu , Jie Chen , Long Ma , Zhiyong Wu

Diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have made remarkable progress in zero-shot speech synthesis, yet optimizing all components for perceptual metrics remains challenging. Prior work with DMOSpeech demonstrated direct metric…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Yinghao Aaron Li , Xilin Jiang , Fei Tao , Cheng Niu , Kaifeng Xu , Juntong Song , Nima Mesgarani

The recent text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved quality comparable to that of humans; however, its application in spoken dialogue has not been widely studied. This study aims to realize a TTS that closely resembles human dialogue. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kentaro Mitsui , Tianyu Zhao , Kei Sawada , Yukiya Hono , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

The difficulty of acquiring abundant, high-quality data, especially in multi-lingual contexts, has sparked interest in addressing low-resource scenarios. Moreover, current literature rely on fixed expressions from language IDs, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Youngjae Kim , Yejin Jeon , Gary Geunbae Lee

Previous real-time MRI (rtMRI)-based speech synthesis models depend heavily on noisy ground-truth speech. Applying loss directly over ground truth mel-spectrograms entangles speech content with MRI noise, resulting in poor intelligibility.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Neil Shah , Ayan Kashyap , Shirish Karande , Vineet Gandhi

Although existing speech-driven talking face generation methods achieve significant progress, they are far from real-world application due to the avatar-specific training demand and unstable lip movements. To address the above issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Haiming Zhang , Zhihao Yuan , Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Baoyuan Wang , Guanbin Li , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Visual speech recognition (VSR), commonly known as lip reading, has garnered significant attention due to its wide-ranging practical applications. The advent of deep learning techniques and advancements in hardware capabilities have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Bowen Hao , Dongliang Zhou , Xiaojie Li , Xingyu Zhang , Liang Xie , Jianlong Wu , Erwei Yin

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) differs from the common perception tasks as it requires deeper reasoning over the video sequence, even by human experts. Despite the recent advances in VSR, current approaches rely on labeled data to fully…

This paper presents a method for selecting appropriate synthetic speech samples from a given large text-to-speech (TTS) dataset as supplementary training data for an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. We trained a neural network,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Shuo Liu , Leda Sarı , Chunyang Wu , Gil Keren , Yuan Shangguan , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli

Recent advancements in end-to-end speech synthesis have made it possible to generate highly natural speech. However, training these models typically requires a large amount of high-fidelity speech data, and for unseen texts, the prosody of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Mengxi Nie , Ming Yan , Mengnan He , Ruixiong Zhang , Caixia Gong

The WildSpoof Challenge aims to advance the use of in-the-wild data in two intertwined speech processing tasks. It consists of two parallel tracks: (1) Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis for generating spoofed speech, and (2) Spoofing-robust…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yihan Wu , Jee-weon Jung , Hye-jin Shim , Xin Cheng , Xin Wang

End-to-end Large Speech Language Models~(\textbf{LSLMs}) demonstrate strong potential in response latency and speech comprehension capabilities, showcasing general intelligence across speech understanding tasks. However, the ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yonghua Hei , Yibo Yan , Shuliang Liu , Huiyu Zhou , Linfeng Zhang , Xuming Hu