Adding Voice Cloning to Text-to-Audio-Video Models with a Single Zero-Initialised Layer

arXiv:2608.15690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation models produce a video and its soundtrack from a textual description, but offer no control over whose voice speaks in the output. We show that a base T2AV model can be turned into a voice-cloning model by adding a single zero-initialized linear layer on top of its audio backbone, fine-tuning for a comparatively short training schedule, and conditioning on a short reference recording at inference time. The reference is injected through two complementary signals: its diffusion latents are prepended to the audio stream, and a global speaker embedding modulates token of the target audio. On a benchmark of 674 speaker-text pairs spanning 30 speakers we compare against five strong voice-cloning text-to-speech baselines: our enhanced 5B model attains the highest speaker-encoder cosine similarity (SECS) across three independent verification networks (ECAPA-TDNN, WavLM-SV, Resemblyzer), statistically significantly outperforming every baseline. A side product of the architecture is that the audio path can be evaluated without the video path at inference time, yielding a ~30x speed-up over the full audio-video diffusion loop while preserving the voice-cloning behaviour.

Abstract:Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation models produce a video and its soundtrack from a textual description, but offer no control over whose voice speaks in the output. We show that a base T2AV model can be turned into a voice-cloning model by adding a single zero-initialized linear layer on top of its audio backbone, fine-tuning for a comparatively short training schedule, and conditioning on a short reference recording at inference time. The reference is injected through two complementary signals: its diffusion latents are prepended to the audio stream, and a global speaker embedding modulates token of the target audio. On a benchmark of 674 speaker-text pairs spanning 30 speakers we compare against five strong voice-cloning text-to-speech baselines: our enhanced 5B model attains the highest speaker-encoder cosine similarity (SECS) across three independent verification networks (ECAPA-TDNN, WavLM-SV, Resemblyzer), statistically significantly outperforming every baseline. A side product of the architecture is that the audio path can be evaluated without the video path at inference time, yielding a ~30x speed-up over the full audio-video diffusion loop while preserving the voice-cloning behaviour.

Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multimedia (cs.MM)

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Adding Voice Cloning to Text-to-Audio-Video Models with a Single Zero-Initialised Layer

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