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Textless spoken language models (SLMs) are generative models of speech that do not rely on text supervision. Most textless SLMs learn to predict the next semantic token, a discrete representation of linguistic content, and rely on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ju-Chieh Chou , Jiawei Zhou , Karen Livescu

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

We consider the generative modeling of speech over multiple minutes, a requirement for long-form multimedia generation and audio-native voice assistants. However, textless spoken language models struggle to generate plausible speech past…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Se Jin Park , Julian Salazar , Aren Jansen , Keisuke Kinoshita , Yong Man Ro , RJ Skerry-Ryan

The accompanying actions and gestures in dialogue are often closely linked to interactions with the environment, such as looking toward the interlocutor or using gestures to point to the described target at appropriate moments. Speech and…

Embodied human communication encompasses both verbal (speech) and non-verbal information (e.g., gesture and head movements). Recent advances in machine learning have substantially improved the technologies for generating synthetic versions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Simon Alexanderson , Éva Székely , Gustav Eje Henter , Taras Kucherenko , Jonas Beskow

The automatic co-speech gesture generation draws much attention in computer animation. Previous works designed network structures on individual datasets, which resulted in a lack of data volume and generalizability across different motion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sicheng Yang , Zilin Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Qiaochu Huang , Lei Hao , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , changpeng yang , Zonghong Dai

Text-to-motion generation has advanced rapidly, yet two challenges persist. First, existing motion autoencoders compress each frame into a single monolithic latent vector, entangling trajectory and per-joint rotations in an unstructured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zeyu Ling , Qing Shuai , Teng Zhang , Shiyang Li , Bo Han , Changqing Zou

Multimodal language models that process both text and speech have a potential for applications in spoken dialogue systems. However, current models face two major challenges in response generation latency: (1) generating a spoken response…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Kentaro Mitsui , Koh Mitsuda , Toshiaki Wakatsuki , Yukiya Hono , Kei Sawada

Stylized motion generation is actively studied in computer graphics, especially benefiting from the rapid advances in diffusion models. The goal of this task is to produce a novel motion respecting both the motion content and the desired…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lei Zhong , Yi Yang , Changjian Li

Multistep instructions, such as recipes and how-to guides, greatly benefit from visual aids, such as a series of images that accompany the instruction steps. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have become adept at generating coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 João Bordalo , Vasco Ramos , Rodrigo Valério , Diogo Glória-Silva , Yonatan Bitton , Michal Yarom , Idan Szpektor , Joao Magalhaes

The automated synthesis of high-quality 3D gestures from speech is of significant value in virtual humans and gaming. Previous methods focus on synthesizing gestures that are synchronized with speech rhythm, yet they frequently overlook the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qingrong Cheng , Xu Li , Xinghui Fu , Fei Xia , Zhongqian Sun

A good co-speech motion generation cannot be achieved without a careful integration of common rhythmic motion and rare yet essential semantic motion. In this work, we propose SemTalk for holistic co-speech motion generation with frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xiangyue Zhang , Jianfang Li , Jiaxu Zhang , Ziqiang Dang , Jianqiang Ren , Liefeng Bo , Zhigang Tu

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

Generating 3D human motion based on textual descriptions has been a research focus in recent years. It requires the generated motion to be diverse, natural, and conform to the textual description. Due to the complex spatio-temporal nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chongyang Zhong , Lei Hu , Zihao Zhang , Shihong Xia

Synthesizing realistic co-speech gestures is an important and yet unsolved problem for creating believable motions that can drive a humanoid robot to interact and communicate with human users. Such capability will improve the impressions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Shuhong Lu , Youngwoo Yoon , Andrew Feng

Generating 3D human gestures and speech from a text script is critical for creating realistic talking avatars. One solution is to leverage separate pipelines for text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-gesture (STG), but this approach suffers…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Zixin Guo , Jian Zhang

We propose LiveGesture, the first fully streamable, speech-driven full-body gesture generation framework that operates with zero look-ahead and supports arbitrary sequence length. Unlike existing co-speech gesture methods, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Muhammad Usama Saleem , Mayur Jagdishbhai Patel , Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong , Zhongxing Qin , Li Yang , Hongfei Xue , Ahmed Helmy , Chen Chen , Pu Wang

Multi-hand semantic grasp generation aims to generate feasible and semantically appropriate grasp poses for different robotic hands based on natural language instructions. Although the task is highly valuable, due to the lack of multihand…

We present an innovative end-to-end framework for synthesizing semantically meaningful co-speech gestures and deploying them in real-time on a humanoid robot. This system addresses the challenge of creating natural, expressive non-verbal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Gang Zhang

Speech-driven gesture generation is highly challenging due to the random jitters of human motion. In addition, there is an inherent asynchronous relationship between human speech and gestures. To tackle these challenges, we introduce a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sicheng Yang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Lei Hao , Weihong Bao , Haolin Zhuang