Learning the Face Behind a Voice

This work addresses the problem of mapping fixed representations (embeddings) of a speech signal to face embeddings and then generating a face from the mapped embedding using a generative adversarial network (GAN) that was trained for face generation. GANs are a type of neural networks that can generate data similar to the data they were trained on. The architecture of the proposed system is based on four components: a face embedding extractor, a voice embedding extractor, an algorithm on top of a GAN that can generate a face from a face embedding, and my mapping network used to map a voice embedding to a face embedding. The pre-trained neural networks FaceNet and SpeechBrain are adopted as embedding extractors. A model that uses a pre-trained StyleGAN2 is adopted for backward face generation. The contribution of this work is that it allows the extrapolation of a face from audio signal only