arXiv AI

AlignAudio: A Unified Dual-Alignment Framework for Noise-Robust Speech-Conditioned Generation

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

RobustSpeechFlow: Learning Robust Text-to-Speech Trajectories via Augmentation-based Contrastive Flow Matching

arXiv:2605. 22083v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While flow-matching text-to-speech (TTS) achieves strong zero-shot speaker similarity and naturalness, it remains susceptible to content fidelity issues, particularly skip and repeat errors from imperfect alignment.

By Jinhyeok Yang, Hyeongju Kim, Yechan Yu, Joon Byun, Frederik Bous, Juheon Lee
arXiv AI
Jul 24

AG-REPA: Causal Layer Selection for Representation Alignment in Audio Flow Matching

arXiv:2603. 01006v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: REPresentation Alignment (REPA) improves the training of generative flow models by aligning intermediate hidden states with pretrained teacher features, but its effectiveness in token-conditioned audio Flow Matching critically depends on the choice of supervised layers, which is typically made heuristically based on the depth.

By Pengfei Zhang, Tianxin Xie, Minghao Yang, Li Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

Watch Your Speech: Text-aware Video-to-Speech Synthesis with Textual Conditioning

Watch Your Speech (WYS) is a video‑to‑speech synthesis framework that uses textual conditioning to resolve the one‑to‑many mapping problem inherent in silent talking‑face videos. It fuses textual context with video sequences via an attention‑based embedding module and employs a conditional flow matching objective to produce high‑fidelity, phonemically accurate speech. Experiments on LRS2 and LRS3 show that WYS sets new state‑of‑the‑art results in audio‑visual synchronization while maintaining competitive word‑error rates, and subjective tests confirm near‑human naturalness.

By Gunwoo Lee, Yoori Oh, Yoseob Han
arXiv AI
Sep 7

PRISM-Bench: An Audio-Centric Diagnostic Benchmark for Text-to-Audio-Video Generation

PRISM‑Bench is an audio‑centric diagnostic benchmark for text‑to‑audio‑video generation, built from 900 human‑verified samples. It evaluates audio along two axes—audio type (speech, music, sound) and sound‑source visibility (on‑screen vs. off‑screen)—across four perceptual dimensions (audio‑visual coherence, audio quality, audio expressiveness, and prompt following) using 35 fine‑grained criteria. The benchmark employs an enhanced MLLM‑as‑a‑Judge protocol that aligns strongly with human raters, revealing a performance gap between frontier and open‑source T2AV models and highlighting overfitting to perceptual fidelity while struggling with complex grounding and control tasks, especially for music and synchronized on‑screen audio.

By Yuchen Sun, Qian Yang, Jun Wang, Detai Xin, Guoqiao Yu, Guanglu Wan, Qi Jia