Abstract:Image captioning technology has great potential in many scenarios. However, current text-based image captioning methods cannot be applied to approximately half of the world's languages due to these languages' lack of a written form. To solve this problem, recently the image-to-speech task was proposed, which generates spoken descriptions of images bypassing any text via an intermediate representation consisting of phonemes (image-to-phoneme). Here, we present a comprehensive study on the image-to-speech task i… Show more
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