Generating Images from Spoken Descriptions

Text-based technologies, such as text translation from one language to another, and image captioning, are gaining popularity. However, approximately half of the world's languages are estimated to be lacking a commonly used written form. Consequently, these languages cannot benefit from text-based technologies. This paper presents 1) a new...

Synthesizing Spoken Descriptions of Images

Image captioning technology has great potential in many scenarios. However, current text-based image captioning methods cannot be applied to approximately half of the world's languages due to these languages’ lack of a written form. To solve this problem, recently the image-to-speech task was proposed, which generates spoken descriptions of...