Seeing is Believing: Emotion-Aware Audio-Visual Language Modeling for Expressive Speech Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16188v2
• Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:49:56 GMT
• Title: Seeing is Believing: Emotion-Aware Audio-Visual Language Modeling for Expressive Speech Generation
• Abstract summary: We present an Audio-Visual Language Model (AVLM) for expressive speech generation.<n>We explore multiple visual encoders and multimodal fusion strategies during pre-training to identify the most effective integration approach.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present an Audio-Visual Language Model (AVLM) for expressive speech generation by integrating full-face visual cues into a pre-trained expressive speech model. We explore multiple visual encoders and multimodal fusion strategies during pre-training to identify the most effective integration approach. Subsequent fine-tuning on emotion recognition and expressive dialogue tasks yields substantial gains over speech-only baselines (e.g., +5 F1 in emotion recognition). AVLM highlights the value of expressive visual information in guiding speech generation and offers a foundation for end-to-end multimodal conversational systems.

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