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Figure 1: Speech-to-gesture translation example. In this paper, we study the connection between conversational gesture and speech. Here, we show the result of our model that predicts gesture from audio. From the bottom upward: the input audio, arm and hand pose predicted by our model, and video frames synthesized from pose predictions using [10]. AbstractHuman speech is often accompanied by hand and arm gestures. Given audio speech input, we generate plausible gestures to go along with the sound. Specifically, we perform cross-modal translation from "in-the-wild" monologue speech of a single speaker to their hand and arm motion. We train on unlabeled videos for which we only have noisy pseudo ground truth from an automatic pose detection system. Our proposed model significantly outperforms baseline methods in a quantitative comparison. To support research toward obtaining a computational understanding of the relationship between gesture and speech, we release a large video dataset of person-specific gestures.

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