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This paper presents a novel approach for the automatic generation of Cued Speech (ACSG), a visual communication system used by people with hearing impairment to better elicit the spoken language. We explore transfer learning strategies by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Sanjana Sankar , Martin Lenglet , Gerard Bailly , Denis Beautemps , Thomas Hueber

While existing text-to-speech (TTS) models exhibit high expressiveness, fine-grained control over composite instructions remains challenging due to the structural mismatch between discrete textual intents and continuous acoustic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bin Kang , Shaoguo Wen , Yang Fan , Shunlong Wu , Junjie Wang , Yulin Li , Junzhi Zhao , Junle Wang , Zhuotao Tian

Instruction-guided text-to-speech (ITTS) enables users to control speech generation through natural language prompts, offering a more intuitive interface than traditional TTS. However, the alignment between user style instructions and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hung-yi Lee

While considerable progress has been made in achieving accurate lip synchronization for 3D speech-driven talking face generation, the task of incorporating expressive facial detail synthesis aligned with the speaker's speaking status…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yasheng Sun , Wenqing Chu , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hideki Koike

The generation of co-speech gestures for digital humans is an emerging area in the field of virtual human creation. Prior research has made progress by using acoustic and semantic information as input and adopting classify method to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Fan Zhang , Naye Ji , Fuxing Gao , Siyuan Zhao , Zhaohan Wang , Shunman Li

Recent advancements in generative modeling emphasize the importance of natural language as a highly expressive and accessible modality for controlling content generation. However, existing instructed reinforcement learning for procedural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sung-Hyun Kim , Geum-Hwan Hwang , In-Chang Baek , Seo-Young Lee , Kyung-Joong Kim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, but they fall short in comprehending biological sequences such as proteins. To address this challenge, we propose InstructProtein, an innovative LLM…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-06 Zeyuan Wang , Qiang Zhang , Keyan Ding , Ming Qin , Xiang Zhuang , Xiaotong Li , Huajun Chen

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion remains an interesting but challenging speech processing task. Recently, AutoVC, a conditional autoencoder based method, achieved excellent conversion results by disentangling the speaker identity…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Zhen Zeng , Edward Xiao , Jing Xiao

In recent years, instruction tuning has gained increasing attention and emerged as a crucial technique to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). To construct high-quality instruction datasets, many instruction processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yixin Ou , Ningyu Zhang , Honghao Gui , Ziwen Xu , Shuofei Qiao , Yida Xue , Runnan Fang , Kangwei Liu , Lei Li , Zhen Bi , Guozhou Zheng , Huajun Chen

Co-speech gesture is crucial for human-machine interaction and digital entertainment. While previous works mostly map speech audio to human skeletons (e.g., 2D keypoints), directly generating speakers' gestures in the image domain remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xian Liu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Yuanqi Du , Wayne Wu , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu

Recent advancements in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) modeling have led to significant strides in generating high-fidelity and diverse speech. However, dialogue generation, along with achieving human-like naturalness in speech, continues to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Leying Zhang , Yao Qian , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Dongmei Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Midia Yousefi , Yanmin Qian , Jinyu Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Michael Zeng

Generating expressive and diverse human gestures from audio is crucial in fields like human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and animation. Though existing methods have achieved remarkable performance, they often exhibit limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Ming Meng , Ke Mu , Yonggui Zhu , Zhe Zhu , Haoyu Sun , Heyang Yan , Zhaoxin Fan

Prompting has become a practical method for utilizing pre-trained language models (LMs). This approach offers several advantages. It allows an LM to adapt to new tasks with minimal training and parameter updates, thus achieving efficiency…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Kai-Wei Chang , Haibin Wu , Yu-Kai Wang , Yuan-Kuei Wu , Hua Shen , Wei-Cheng Tseng , Iu-thing Kang , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

Co-speech gesture generation aims to synthesize realistic body movements that are semantically coherent with speech and faithful to a user-specified gestural style. Existing VQ-VAE based co-speech gesture generation methods improve…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junchuan Zhao , Qifan Liang , Ye Wang

Diffusion models continuously push the boundary of state-of-the-art image generation, but the process is hard to control with any nuance: practice proves that textual prompts are inadequate for accurately describing image style or fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Ciara Rowles , Shimon Vainer , Dante De Nigris , Slava Elizarov , Konstantin Kutsy , Simon Donné

Editing images via instruction provides a natural way to generate interactive content, but it is a big challenge due to the higher requirement of scene understanding and generation. Prior work utilizes a chain of large language models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Liya Ji , Chenyang Qi , Qifeng Chen

We present \textsc{Vx2Text}, a framework for text generation from multimodal inputs consisting of video plus text, speech, or audio. In order to leverage transformer networks, which have been shown to be effective at modeling language, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Xudong Lin , Gedas Bertasius , Jue Wang , Shih-Fu Chang , Devi Parikh , Lorenzo Torresani

Generative models for speech synthesis face a fundamental trade-off: discrete tokens ensure stability but sacrifice expressivity, while continuous signals retain acoustic richness but suffer from error accumulation due to task entanglement.…

Achieving nuanced and accurate emulation of human voice has been a longstanding goal in artificial intelligence. Although significant progress has been made in recent years, the mainstream of speech synthesis models still relies on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Weiwei Lin , Chenhang He , Man-Wai Mak , Jiachen Lian , Kong Aik Lee

Multi-modal large language models are regarded as a crucial step towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and have garnered significant interest with the emergence of ChatGPT. However, current speech-language models typically adopt the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Dong Zhang , Shimin Li , Xin Zhang , Jun Zhan , Pengyu Wang , Yaqian Zhou , Xipeng Qiu