arXiv AI
Oct 1

ECHO-G: Embodied Co-speech Humanoid mOtion Generation

ECHO-G is a framework for generating full‑body co‑speech motion for humanoid robots, jointly conditioned on speech audio and timed transcripts. Its Speech‑Grounded Diffusion Transformer (SGDiT) fuses frame‑aligned acoustic features with token‑level linguistic context, preserving distinct granularities while modeling one‑to‑many utterance‑motion relationships directly in robot space. The authors introduce a BEAT2‑derived audio‑text‑robot dataset, a benchmark for co‑speech characteristics, robot‑motion quality, and runtime efficiency, and demonstrate that direct robot‑space generation outperforms human‑motion generation and retargeting pipelines, with joint audio‑text conditioning yielding superior results in both quantitative evaluation and a video‑rating study. "whyItMatters":"The study provides a new dataset, benchmark, and a demonstrably effective method for generating realistic co‑speech motion directly in robot space, advancing practical humanoid robot interaction."

By Yizhao Li, Pusen Gao, Ming Wang, Shaojie Shen, Shuo Yang, Hao Xu
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Dreaming the Sound of Contact: Leveraging Video and Audio Generation for Zero-Shot Force-Aware Manipulation and Data Generation

The paper introduces a pipeline that combines generated video and audio to produce force-aware manipulation trajectories for a Franka Panda robot. By using the loudness of contact sounds to shape a bounded, time-varying desired-force profile, the system can execute tasks that require precise contact forces, outperforming kinematic-only baselines. The approach also serves as a data generation engine for training closed-loop policies.

By Guanhua Ji, Tianyu Li, Dayoon Suh, Yuqian Zhang, Boyan Zhang, Nadia Figueroa
arXiv AI
Oct 1

GestAdapt: Workspace-Conditioned Co-Speech Gesture Generation for Humanoid Robots

GestAdapt is a framework that generates co‑speech gestures conditioned on a specified wrist workspace, allowing humanoid robots to adapt their motions to environmental constraints such as walls. The system learns from six co‑speech corpora using a shared motion representation and can be retargeted to different robot embodiments. Experiments show that GestAdapt’s motions stay close to real‑motion distributions, achieve higher quality scores than a no‑workspace baseline, and outperform other methods in real‑robot evaluations on the Reachy2 humanoid.

By Bosong Ding, Xianglin Zhang, Miao Xin, Murat Kirtay, Giacomo Spigler
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Super Star: Towards Streaming Real-time Interactive Agents for Digital Humans

The paper introduces a real‑time framework for generating co‑speech gestures for digital humans, coupling a streaming speech response module with a causal multimodal autoregressive gesture generator that uses only current speech and motion history. It also presents an offline data synthesis pipeline for virtual companion dialogues and a self‑evolving training loop that incorporates user feedback to continually adapt the model. Experiments show the system achieves a better latency‑quality trade‑off, stronger speech‑motion synchronization, and higher user preference than existing baselines.

By Wentao Jiang, Youchen Xie, Haidi Fan, Yajing Chen, Xin Wang, Ye Shi, Jingya Wang