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📷 The Pictures Learn To Talk
The AI team at Alibaba came up with a milestone innovation: generating realistic talking people from just a single portrait image and audio. Some samples:
And the full paper via video:
Let’s break down what they’ve done:
You send the model a single portrait image of a face an audio file of a single person talking, speaking, or singing
The model generates a video of the face on the image talking, speaking, or singing near perfect lipsync in multiple languages true emotion, eyes, eyebrows, jaw, cheeks, and facial angles including natural face movement, hair follow-through
It’s an amazing, state-of-the-art piece of technology that will change the world the moment it’s fully released. The implications for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, customer service videos, and the…
