README.md

HearBridge Visual Speech Recognition

Conversation Textualization via Lip-reading, supporting multi-party conversations

Prerequisites

1. Setup the conda environment.

conda create -y -n hearbridge-vsr python=3.8
conda activate hearbridge-vsr

2. Install requirements.

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg

3. Download & Extract pre-trained models to:

• models/visual/model.pth
• models/spm
• models/mediapipe/short_range.tflite
• models/mediapipe/face_landmarker.tflite

Run

python3 demo.py

• For debugging, add debug flag.
• For showing camera, add window flag.

Reference

@inproceedings{ma2023auto,
  author={Ma, Pingchuan and Haliassos, Alexandros and Fernandez-Lopez, Adriana and Chen, Honglie and Petridis, Stavros and Pantic, Maja},
  booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  title={Auto-AVSR: Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with Automatic Labels},
  year={2023},
  pages={1-5},
  doi={10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096889}
}