Natural face-to-face conversation requires real-time speech generation together with synchronized facial motion. Existing systems only partially address this problem: speech-only full-duplex models can generate speech in real time but do not produce facial motion, while audio-driven facial motion models animate a face from already available audio rather than jointly generating speech and motion online.
arXiv:2606. 01031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly, yet existing evaluation protocols mainly rely on frame-wise metrics that assume strict temporal correspondence between generated and reference videos.
By Zhicheng Zhang, Lei Wang, Yu Zhang, Yongsheng Gao
arXiv:2606. 28568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-driven 3D facial animation methods face significant challenges in simultaneously achieving high-fidelity motion and precise artistic control at production quality.
By Arthur Josi, Emeline Got, Abdallah Dib, Luiz Gustavo Hafemann, Rafael M. O. Cruz
arXiv:2503. 14295v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in audio-driven talking face generation have made great progress in lip synchronization.
By Baiqin Wang, Xiangyu Zhu, Fan Shen, Hao Xu, Zhen Lei
arXiv:2606. 25041v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Wan-Streamer, a native-streaming, end-to-end interactive foundation model designed from the ground up for real-time, low-latency, full-duplex audio-visual interaction.
By Lianghua Huang, Zhi-Fan Wu, Wei Wang, Yupeng Shi, Mengyang Feng, Junjie He, Chen-Wei Xie, Yu Liu, Jingren Zhou, Ang Wang, Bang Zhang, Baole Ai, Chen Liang, Cheng Yu, Chongyang Zhong, Jinwei Qi, Kai Zhu, Pandeng Li, Peng Zhang, Wenyuan Zhang, Xinhua Cheng, Yitong Huang, Yun Zheng, Zoubin Bi
arXiv:2601. 00664v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation.
By Taekyung Ki, Sangwon Jang, Jaehyeong Jo, Jaehong Yoon, Sung Ju Hwang
arXiv:2602. 07106v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Omni-modal large language models (OLLMs) aim to unify multimodal understanding and generation, yet extending them to jointly produce speech and 3D facial animation remains largely unexplored despite its importance for natural human-computer interaction.
By Haoyu Zhang, Zhipeng Li, Yiwen Guo, Tianshu Yu
Audio-driven talking head synthesis has achieved impressive progress in lip synchronization and visual quality, yet generating expressive emotional avatars with controllable intensity remains challenging, especially under real-time constraints. In this paper, we present GaussianEmoTalker, an audio-driven framework for real-time emotional talking head synthesis based on 3D Gaussian Splatting.
Recent diffusion-based models have enabled realistic audio-driven avatar generation in real-time streaming. However, existing approaches struggle to maintain visual temporal consistency and fail to explicitly perceive user intent in complex interactive streaming scenarios.
Real-time long-form avatar audio--video generation requires causal, continuous synthesis while maintaining audiovisual synchronization and visual consistency. Adapting a pretrained bidirectional model to this setting presents two key dilemmas.
arXiv:2607. 03118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Vidu S1, a real-time interactive video generation model supporting voice control of digital characters.
By Jintao Zhang, Kai Jiang, Jintao Chen, Xu Wang, Yang Luo, Yuji Wang, Dechuang Chen, Jungang Li, Chengyang Ye, Marco Chen, Hongzhou Zhu, Min Zhao, Yuxuan Jiang, Zhengkun Huang, Chendong Xiang, Kaiwen Zheng, Haoxu Wang, Xiaohang Wang, Qi Jia, Xin Chen, Yimin Chen, Youhe Jiang, Fangcheng Fu, Zhijie Deng, Fan Bao, Jianfei Chen, Jun Zhu
arXiv:2608. 10720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-modal dialogue models can understand multimodal inputs and synthesize spoken replies, yet their responses remain visually disembodied.
By Haoyu Zhang, Zhipeng Li, Xiaoying Tang, Tianshu Yu, Yiwen Guo