Month: August 2025

How This AI Model Generates Singing Avatars From Lyrics

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Text to Vocal Generation 2.2 Text to Motion Generation 2.3 Audio to Motion Generation RapVerse Dataset 3.1 Rap-Vocal Subset 3.2 Rap-Motion Subset Method 4.1 Problem Formulation 4.2 Motion VQ-VAE Tokenizer 4.3 Vocal2unit Audio Tokenizer 4.4 General Auto-regressive Modeling Experiments 5.1 Experimental Setup 5.2 Main Results … Read more

Joint Modeling of Text, Audio, and 3D Motion Using RapVerse

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Text to Vocal Generation 2.2 Text to Motion Generation 2.3 Audio to Motion Generation RapVerse Dataset 3.1 Rap-Vocal Subset 3.2 Rap-Motion Subset Method 4.1 Problem Formulation 4.2 Motion VQ-VAE Tokenizer 4.3 Vocal2unit Audio Tokenizer 4.4 General Auto-regressive Modeling Experiments 5.1 Experimental Setup 5.2 Main Results … Read more

This AI Turns Lyrics Into Fully Synced Song and Dance Performances

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Text to Vocal Generation 2.2 Text to Motion Generation 2.3 Audio to Motion Generation RapVerse Dataset 3.1 Rap-Vocal Subset 3.2 Rap-Motion Subset Method 4.1 Problem Formulation 4.2 Motion VQ-VAE Tokenizer 4.3 Vocal2unit Audio Tokenizer 4.4 General Auto-regressive Modeling Experiments 5.1 Experimental Setup 5.2 Main Results … Read more

Text-to-Rap AI Turns Lyrics Into Vocals, Gestures, and Facial Expressions

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Text to Vocal Generation 2.2 Text to Motion Generation 2.3 Audio to Motion Generation RapVerse Dataset 3.1 Rap-Vocal Subset 3.2 Rap-Motion Subset Method 4.1 Problem Formulation 4.2 Motion VQ-VAE Tokenizer 4.3 Vocal2unit Audio Tokenizer 4.4 General Auto-regressive Modeling Experiments 5.1 Experimental Setup 5.2 Main Results … Read more

A Multimodal Dataset for Synthesizing Rap Vocals and 3D Motion

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Text to Vocal Generation 2.2 Text to Motion Generation 2.3 Audio to Motion Generation RapVerse Dataset 3.1 Rap-Vocal Subset 3.2 Rap-Motion Subset Method 4.1 Problem Formulation 4.2 Motion VQ-VAE Tokenizer 4.3 Vocal2unit Audio Tokenizer 4.4 General Auto-regressive Modeling Experiments 5.1 Experimental Setup 5.2 Main Results … Read more

The RapVerse Dataset: A New Benchmark in Text-to-Music and Motion Generation

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Text to Vocal Generation 2.2 Text to Motion Generation 2.3 Audio to Motion Generation RapVerse Dataset 3.1 Rap-Vocal Subset 3.2 Rap-Motion Subset Method 4.1 Problem Formulation 4.2 Motion VQ-VAE Tokenizer 4.3 Vocal2unit Audio Tokenizer 4.4 General Auto-regressive Modeling Experiments 5.1 Experimental Setup 5.2 Main Results … Read more

A Single Prompt Will Have This AI Rapping and Dancing

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:::info Authors: (1) Jiaben Chen, University of Massachusetts Amherst; (2) Xin Yan, Wuhan University; (3) Yihang Chen, Wuhan University; (4) Siyuan Cen, University of Massachusetts Amherst; (5) Qinwei Ma, Tsinghua University; (6) Haoyu Zhen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; (7) Kaizhi Qian, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; (8) Lie Lu, Dolby Laboratories; (9) Chuang Gan, University of … Read more

Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific’s Third Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Deal

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Two Seas Capital, the third largest shareholder in Core Scientific (CORZ) with a 6.3% stake, has come out against the bitcoin miner’s proposed all-stock acquisition by AI cloud provider CoreWeave (CRWV). In a letter published Thursday, Two Seas said it intends to vote against the deal, which was announced July 7, and plans to rally … Read more

Is AI’s Enshittification Already Underway?

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==“Enshittification====, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. This neologism was coined by the Canadian writer Cory Doctorow in 2022.” (Wikipedia)== AI is currently in its Gold Rush era. The overwhelming wave of tools—chatbots, copilots, and image generators—feels like finding gold nuggets scattered in a river. … Read more