Video-driven speech reconstruction using generative adversarial networks
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Vougioukas, Konstantinos
Ma, Pingchuan
Petridis, Stavros
Pantic, Maja
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Speech is a means of communication which relies on both audio and visual information. The absence of one modality can often lead to confusion or misinterpretation of information. In this paper we present an end-to-end temporal model capable of directly synthesising audio from silent video, without needing to transform to-and-from intermediate features. Our proposed approach, based on GANs is capable of producing natural sounding, intelligible speech which is synchronised with the video. The performance of our model is evaluated on the GRID dataset for both speaker dependent and speaker independent scenarios. To the best of our knowledge this is the first method that maps video directly to raw audio and the first to produce intelligible speech when tested on previously unseen speakers. We evaluate the synthesised audio not only based on the sound quality but also on the accuracy of the spoken words.
Date Issued
2019-09-15
Date Acceptance
2019-06-17
Citation
Interspeech 2019, 2019, pp.4125-4129
Publisher
ISCA
Start Page
4125
End Page
4129
Journal / Book Title
Interspeech 2019
Copyright Statement
© 2019 ISCA
Identifier
https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2019/abstracts/1445.html
Source
Interspeech 2019
Subjects
eess.AS
eess.AS
cs.CV
cs.SD
Publication Status
Published online
Start Date
2019-09-15
Finish Date
2019-09-17
Coverage Spatial
Graz, Austria
Date Publish Online
2019-09-15