EditYourself: Audio-Driven Generation and Manipulation of Talking Head Videos with Diffusion Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22127v1
• Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:49:27 GMT
• Title: EditYourself: Audio-Driven Generation and Manipulation of Talking Head Videos with Diffusion Transformers
• Authors: John Flynn, Wolfgang Paier, Dimitar Dinev, Sam Nhut Nguyen, Hayk Poghosyan, Manuel Toribio, Sandipan Banerjee, Guy Gafni,
• Abstract summary: We introduce EditYourself, a DiTT-based framework for audio-driven video-to-videoV editing.<n>It enables transcript-based modification of talking videos, including the seamless addition, removal, and retiming of visually spoken content.<n>This represents a step toward generative video models as practical tools for professional video post-production.
• Score: 3.3508228801277853
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Current generative video models excel at producing novel content from text and image prompts, but leave a critical gap in editing existing pre-recorded videos, where minor alterations to the spoken script require preserving motion, temporal coherence, speaker identity, and accurate lip synchronization. We introduce EditYourself, a DiT-based framework for audio-driven video-to-video (V2V) editing that enables transcript-based modification of talking head videos, including the seamless addition, removal, and retiming of visually spoken content. Building on a general-purpose video diffusion model, EditYourself augments its V2V capabilities with audio conditioning and region-aware, edit-focused training extensions. This enables precise lip synchronization and temporally coherent restructuring of existing performances via spatiotemporal inpainting, including the synthesis of realistic human motion in newly added segments, while maintaining visual fidelity and identity consistency over long durations. This work represents a foundational step toward generative video models as practical tools for professional video post-production.

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