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Current works excel at producing accurate lip movements on a static image or videos of specific people seen during the training phase. However, they fail to accurately morph the lip movements of arbitrary identities in dynamic, unconstrained talking face videos, resulting in significant parts of the video being out-of-sync with the new audio. We identify key reasons pertaining to this and hence resolve them by learning from a powerful lip-sync discriminator. Next, we propose new, rigorous evaluation benchmarks and metrics to accurately measure lip synchronization in unconstrained videos. Extensive quantitative evaluations on our challenging benchmarks show that the lip-sync accuracy of the videos generated by our Wav2Lip model is almost as good as real synced videos. We provide a demo video clearly showing the substantial impact of our Wav2Lip model and evaluation benchmarks on our website: \\url{cvit.iiit.ac.in/research/projects/cvit-projects/a-lip-sync-expert-is-all-you-need-for-speech-to-lip-generation-in-the-wild}. The code and models are released at this GitHub repository: \\url{github.com/Rudrabha/Wav2Lip}. You can also try out the interactive demo at this link: \\url{bhaasha.iiit.ac.in/lipsync}.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10010v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.10010v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-lip-sync-expert-is-all-you-need-for-speech","repo_url":"https://github.com/Rudrabha/Wav2Lip","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"a-lip-sync-expert-is-all-you-need-for-speech","repo_url":"https://github.com/PrashanthaTP/wav2mov","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"a-lip-sync-expert-is-all-you-need-for-speech","repo_url":"https://github.com/rockstar-0000/lip_sync_test","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok"}},{"paper_slug":"a-lip-sync-expert-is-all-you-need-for-speech","repo_url":"https://github.com/mowshon/lipsync","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"all","task_name":"All"},{"task_slug":"morph","task_name":"MORPH"},{"task_slug":"talking-face-generation","task_name":"Talking Face Generation"},{"task_slug":"talking-head-generation","task_name":"Talking Head Generation"},{"task_slug":"lip-sync","task_name":"Unconstrained Lip-synchronization"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/lip-sync-on-lrs2","task":"Unconstrained Lip-synchronization","dataset":"LRS2","model":"Wav2Lip + GAN","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":3,"metrics":{"FID":"4.446","LSE-D":"6.469"},"uses_additional_data":true},{"leaderboard":"/sota/lip-sync-on-lrs2","task":"Unconstrained Lip-synchronization","dataset":"LRS2","model":"Wav2Lip","rank_in_archive_order":3,"of":3,"metrics":{"FID":"4.887","LSE-C":"7.781","LSE-D":"6.386"},"uses_additional_data":true},{"leaderboard":"/sota/lip-sync-on-lrs3","task":"Unconstrained Lip-synchronization","dataset":"LRS3","model":"Wav2Lip + GAN","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":2,"metrics":{"FID":"4.35","LSE-C":"7.574","LSE-D":"6.986"},"uses_additional_data":true},{"leaderboard":"/sota/lip-sync-on-lrs3","task":"Unconstrained Lip-synchronization","dataset":"LRS3","model":"Wav2Lip","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":2,"metrics":{"FID":"4.844","LSE-C":"7.887","LSE-D":"6.652"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/lip-sync-on-lrw","task":"Unconstrained Lip-synchronization","dataset":"LRW","model":"Wav2Lip + GAN","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":2,"metrics":{"FID":"2.475","LSE-C":"7.263","LSE-D":"6.774"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/lip-sync-on-lrw","task":"Unconstrained Lip-synchronization","dataset":"LRW","model":"Wav2Lip","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":2,"metrics":{"FID":"3.189","LSE-C":"7.49","LSE-D":"6.512"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2008.10010","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2008.10010","mcp":{"get_harvested_code_for_paper":{"arxiv_id":"2008.10010"}},"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers","read_at":"2026-09-25T09:33:49+00:00","read_at_is":"when the build read Syntology's graph, not when any sample ran","claim":"Per-sample execution status on synthesized fixtures; not a correctness claim about the paper. 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