Creating a photorealistic avatar speaking any sentence starting from a written input text.

Focusing on autoencoders, we will do a journey from the beginning (Of the speaker experience), mistakes and tips learned along the path.
Will be showcased:

• Intro, the timeline from beginning to nowadays
• Is NOT a deepfake
• Audio processing techniques: STFT (Short Term Fourier Transform), MELs and custom solutions
• Deeplearning models and architecture
• The technique, inspired to inpaiting, used to animate the mouth
• Masks and convolution
• Landmarks extraction

Microsoft Azure will support us.