EMOVA: Empowering Language Models to See, Hear and Speak with Vivid Emotions
<|reference_start|>EMOVA: Empowering Language Models to See, Hear and Speak with Vivid Emotions: GPT-4o, an omni-modal model that enables vocal conversations with diverse emotions and tones, marks a milestone for omni-modal foundation models. However, empowering Large Language Models to perceive and generate images, texts, and speeches end-to-end with publicly available data remains challenging in the open-source community. Existing vision-language models rely on external tools for the speech processing, while speech-language models still suffer from limited or even without vision-understanding abilities. To address this gap, we propose EMOVA (EMotionally Omni-present Voice Assistant), to enable Large Language Models with end-to-end speech capabilities while maintaining the leading vision-language performance. With a semantic-acoustic disentangled speech tokenizer, we notice surprisingly that omni-modal alignment can further enhance vision-language and speech abilities compared with the corresponding bi-modal aligned counterparts. Moreover, a lightweight style module is proposed for flexible speech style controls (e.g., emotions and pitches). For the first time, EMOVA achieves state-of-the-art performance on both the vision-language and speech benchmarks, and meanwhile, supporting omni-modal spoken dialogue with vivid emotions.<|reference_end|>
@article{chen2024emova:,
    title={EMOVA: Empowering Language Models to See, Hear and Speak with Vivid
  Emotions},
    author={Kai Chen, Yunhao Gou, Runhui Huang, Zhili Liu, Daxin Tan, Jing Xu,
  Chunwei Wang, Yi Zhu, Yihan Zeng, Kuo Yang, Dingdong Wang, Kun Xiang, Haoyuan
  Li, Haoli Bai, Jianhua Han, Xiaohui Li, Weike Jin, Nian Xie, Yu Zhang, James
  T. Kwok, Hengshuang Zhao, Xiaodan Liang, Dit-Yan Yeung, Xiao Chen, Zhenguo
  Li, Wei Zhang, Qun Liu, Jun Yao, Lanqing Hong, Lu Hou, Hang Xu},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18042},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.18042},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.CL}
}