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Motion-Omni integrates speech and full-body avatar motion in one framework

Researchers have developed Motion-Omni, an end-to-end framework that integrates speech generation with full-body avatar motion. Unlike cascaded systems, Motion-Omni allows for joint optimization between speech and motion generation, resulting in more aligned and natural avatar movements. The system, instantiated with a Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct model, demonstrates faster response times and competitive performance on motion metrics while maintaining low word error rates. AI

IMPACT Enables more natural and responsive avatar interactions by unifying speech and motion generation.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a new framework for joint speech and motion generation. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Motion-Omni integrates speech and full-body avatar motion in one framework

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Motion-Omni: End-to-End Joint Speech and Full-Body Motion for Spoken Dialogue

    Motion-Omni is an end-to-end framework that jointly generates spoken dialogue and full-body co-speech motion from shared hidden states, using scalable pseudo-labeling and a unified evaluation protocol to achieve real-time, aligned responses.

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Chengqian Ma, Wei Tao, Haoyu Zhang, Yiwen Guo ·

    Motion-Omni: End-to-End Joint Speech and Full-Body Motion for Spoken Dialogue

    arXiv:2609.04250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An avatar that holds a conversation should decide what to say and to move while saying it, yet these abilities live in separate model families: spoken dialogue models produce speech without motion, and co-speech motion models prod…