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We present a method for generating a video of a talking face. The method takes as inputs: (i) still images of the target face, and (ii) an audio speech segment; and outputs a video of the target face lip synched with the audio. The method runs in real time and is applicable to faces and audio not seen at training time. To achieve this we propose an encoder-decoder CNN model that uses a joint embedding of the face and audio to generate synthesised talking face video frames. The model is trained on tens of hours of unlabelled videos. We also show results of re-dubbing videos using speech from a different person.
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- 2022VideoReTalking: Audio-based Lip Synchronization for Talking Head Video Editing In the Wildcited by 106
- 2023Identity-Preserving Talking Face Generation with Landmark and Appearance Priorscited by 98
- 2022Learning Dynamic Facial Radiance Fields for Few-Shot Talking Head Synthesiscited by 97
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- 2025Taming Transformer for Emotion-Controllable Talking Face Generation20 Aug 2025
- 2025MoDiT: Learning Highly Consistent 3D Motion Coefficients with Diffusion Transformer for Talking Head Generation7 Jul 2025
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- 2024JEAN: Joint Expression and Audio-guided NeRF-based Talking Face Generation18 Sep 2024
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- 2024KAN-Based Fusion of Dual-Domain for Audio-Driven Facial Landmarks Generation9 Sep 2024
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- 2024Faces that Speak: Jointly Synthesising Talking Face and Speech from Text16 May 2024
- 2024SPEAK: Speech-Driven Pose and Emotion-Adjustable Talking Head Generation12 May 2024
- 2024Learn2Talk: 3D Talking Face Learns from 2D Talking Face19 Apr 2024
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- 2024Real3D-Portrait: One-shot Realistic 3D Talking Portrait Synthesis16 Jan 2024
- 2023DREAM-Talk: Diffusion-based Realistic Emotional Audio-driven Method for Single Image Talking Face Generation21 Dec 2023
- 2023DreamTalk: When Emotional Talking Head Generation Meets Diffusion Probabilistic Models15 Dec 2023
- 2023FaceTalk: Audio-Driven Motion Diffusion for Neural Parametric Head Models13 Dec 2023
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- 2023That's What I Said: Fully-Controllable Talking Face Generation6 Apr 2023
- 2023TalkCLIP: Talking Head Generation with Text-Guided Expressive Speaking Styles1 Apr 2023
- 2023FONT: Flow-guided One-shot Talking Head Generation with Natural Head Motions31 Mar 2023
- 2023SynthVSR: Scaling Up Visual Speech Recognition With Synthetic Supervision30 Mar 2023
- 2023DisCoHead: Audio-and-Video-Driven Talking Head Generation by Disentangled Control of Head Pose and Facial Expressions14 Mar 2023
- 2023DINet: Deformation Inpainting Network for Realistic Face Visually Dubbing on High Resolution Video7 Mar 2023
- 2023StyleTalk: One-shot Talking Head Generation with Controllable Speaking Styles3 Jan 2023
- 2022Imitator: Personalized Speech-driven 3D Facial Animation30 Dec 2022
- 2022Motion and Context-Aware Audio-Visual Conditioned Video Prediction9 Dec 2022
- 2022VideoReTalking: Audio-based Lip Synchronization for Talking Head Video Editing In the Wild27 Nov 2022
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- 2025Taming Transformer for Emotion-Controllable Talking Face Generation20 Aug 2025
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- 2025Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Image Animation15 Jan 2025
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