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ObamaNet: Photo-realistic lip-sync from text

We present ObamaNet, the first architecture that generates both audio and synchronized photo-realistic lip-sync videos from any new text. Contrary to other published lip-sync approaches, ours is only composed of fully trainable neural modules and does not rely on any traditional computer graphics methods. More precisely, we use three main modules: a text-to-speech network based on Char2Wav, a time-delayed LSTM to generate mouth-keypoints synced to the audio, and a network based on Pix2Pix to generate the video frames conditioned on the keypoints.

Authors: Kumar, Rithesh · Sotelo, Jose · Kumar, Kundan · de Brebisson, Alexandre · Bengio, Yoshua

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