Methods and systems of text-conditioned audio-visual speech generation with multi-modal latent diffusion models

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for audio-visual speech generation with multi-modal latent diffusion models. One method includes encoding raw audio signals and video frames into respective latent spaces using audio and visual autoencoders. A text transcript is processed into phoneme sequences using a text transcript processor. The audio and visual latent spaces are conditioned using the text transcript and a conditioning variable. Joint distributions of the visual and audio latent spaces, text transcript, and conditioning variable are learned using a multi-modal latent diffusion model. The model adds noise to the latent audio-visual representations and predicts the noise through denoising neural networks. An inverted diffusion process is utilized to generate diverse speech content and speaker characteristics, resulting in realistic audio-visual speech. The technology presented provides a novel approach to conditional speech generation with potential applications in speech synthesis, voice conversion, and speech recognition.