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Kling-Foley: Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Generation

arXiv 2506.19774 ↗First posted 24 Jun 2025eess.AS cs.AI cs.CLcited by 40

On the map: Diffusion models → Audio, speech and music

Abstract (arXiv)

We propose Kling-Foley, a large-scale multimodal Video-to-Audio generation model that synthesizes high-quality audio synchronized with video content. In Kling-Foley, we introduce multimodal diffusion transformers to model the interactions between video, audio, and text modalities, and combine it with a visual semantic representation module and an audio-visual synchronization module to enhance alignment capabilities. Specifically, these modules align video conditions with latent audio elements at the frame level, thereby improving semantic alignment and audio-visual synchronization. Together with text conditions, this integrated approach enables precise generation of video-matching sound effects. In addition, we propose a universal latent audio codec that can achieve high-quality modeling in various scenarios such as sound effects, speech, singing, and music. We employ a stereo rendering method that imbues synthesized audio with a spatial presence. At the same time, in order to make up for the incomplete types and annotations of the open-source benchmark, we also open-source an industrial-level benchmark Kling-Audio-Eval. Our experiments show that Kling-Foley trained with the flow matching objective achieves new audio-visual SOTA performance among public models in terms of distribution matching, semantic alignment, temporal alignment and audio quality.

Key facts. Cited by 40 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Audio, speech and music, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 71 of its 80 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 24 Jun 2025.

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  7. 2023Make-An-Audio 2: Temporal-Enhanced Text-to-Audio Generation29 May
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  2. 2025HunyuanVideo-Foley: Multimodal Diffusion with Representation Alignment for High-Fidelity Foley Audio Generationcited by 46
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  5. 2026AVGen-Bench: A Task-Driven Benchmark for Multi-Granular Evaluation of Text-to-Audio-Video Generationcited by 21
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  7. 2025Taming Text-to-Sounding Video Generation via Advanced Modality Condition and Interactioncited by 11
  8. 2026Apollo: Unified Multi-Task Audio-Video Joint Generationcited by 10
  9. 2025PrismAudio: Decomposed Chain-of-Thoughts and Multi-dimensional Rewards for Video-to-Audio Generationcited by 9
  10. 2026MM-Sonate: Multimodal Controllable Audio-Video Generation with Zero-Shot Voice Cloningcited by 7
  11. 2026Native Audio-Visual Alignment for Generationcited by 7
  12. 2025EchoFoley: Event-Centric Hierarchical Control for Video Grounded Creative Sound Generationcited by 6
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  3. 2025MoReGen: Multi-Agent Motion-Reasoning Engine for Code-based Text-to-Video Synthesiscited by 5
  4. 2026PhyEduVideo: A Benchmark for Evaluating Text-to-Video Models for Physics Educationcited by 5
  5. 2025Foley Control: Aligning a Frozen Latent Text-to-Audio Model to Videocited by 4
  6. 2025Schrodinger Audio-Visual Editor: Object-Level Audiovisual Removalcited by 4
  7. 2026Improving Joint Audio-Video Generation with Cross-Modal Context Learningcited by 4
  8. 2025ViSAudio: End-to-End Video-Driven Binaural Spatial Audio Generationcited by 3
  9. 2025Step-by-Step Video-to-Audio Synthesis via Negative Audio Guidancecited by 2
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  11. 2026V2M-Zero: Zero-Pair Time-Aligned Video-to-Music Generationcited by 2
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  16. 2026Benchmarking Single-Factor Physical Video-to-Audio Generationcited by 2
  17. 2025Detecting and Mitigating Insertion Hallucination in Video-to-Audio Generationcited by 1
  18. 2025JoVA: Unified Multimodal Learning for Joint Video-Audio Generation and Editingcited by 1
  19. 2026VidAudio-Bench: Benchmarking V2A and VT2A Generation across Four Audio Categoriescited by 1
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  21. 2025Efficient Video-to-Audio Generation via Multiple Foundation Models Mappercited by 0
  22. 2025MeanFlow-Accelerated Multimodal Video-to-Audio Synthesis via One-Step Generationcited by 0
  23. 2025MultiSoundGen: Video-to-Audio Generation for Multi-Event Scenarios via SlowFast Contrastive Audio-Visual Pretraining and Direct Preference Optimizationcited by 0
  24. 2026Tora3: Trajectory-Guided Audio-Video Generation with Physical Coherencecited by 0
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