Ada-TTA: Towards Adaptive High-Quality Text-to-Talking Avatar Synthesis
Authors: name: Zhenhui Ye, name: Ziyue Jiang, name: Yi Ren, name: Jinglin Liu, name: Chen Zhang, name: Xiang Yin, name: Zejun Ma, name: Zhou Zhao

We are interested in a novel task, namely low-resource text-to-talking
avatar. Given only a few-minute-long talking person video with the audio track
as the training data and arbitrary texts as the driving input, we aim to
synthesize high-quality talking portrait videos corresponding to the input
text. This task has broad application prospects in the digital human industry
but has not been technically achieved yet due to two challenges: (1) It is
challenging to mimic the timbre from out-of-domain audio for a traditional
multi-speaker Text-to-Speech system. (2) It is hard to render high-fidelity and
lip-synchronized talking avatars with limited training data. In this paper, we
introduce Adaptive Text-to-Talking Avatar (Ada-TTA), which (1) designs a
generic zero-shot multi-speaker TTS model that well disentangles the text
content, timbre, and prosody; and (2) embraces recent advances in neural
rendering to achieve realistic audio-driven talking face video generation. With
these designs, our method overcomes the aforementioned two challenges and
achieves to generate identity-preserving speech and realistic talking person
video. Experiments demonstrate that our method could synthesize realistic,
identity-preserving, and audio-visual synchronized talking avatar videos.