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arxiv: 2505.16819 · v4 · pith:PPYN4PL6new · submitted 2025-05-22 · 💻 cs.CV

Character-Centered Dialogue Generation from Scene-Level Prompts

Taewon Kang , Ming C. Lin This is my paper

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keywords dialogue generationscene-based videocharacter consistencymultimodal storytellingrecursive narrative bankvision-language modeltraining-free pipelineexpressive speech synthesis
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A modular pipeline generates character-consistent dialogue from scene prompts by grounding an LLM in visual semantics and a recursive narrative memory.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows how to add natural spoken dialogue to scene-based video generation without training any new models. It processes paired prompts for each scene's setting and character actions, pulls high-level visual meaning from a generated scene image using an existing vision-language encoder, and passes that plus the prompts to a large language model to create expressive utterances. A speaker-aware Recursive Narrative Bank stores each character's dialogue history across scenes so the language model can keep emotional tone and narrative goals consistent as the story unfolds. The final step converts the text into character-specific speech, yielding fully voiced multimodal videos. This training-free approach aims to make AI storytelling feel more like traditional character-driven narratives.

Core claim

The central claim is that combining a pretrained vision-language encoder's high-level scene semantics with structured setting and behavior prompts, guided by a Recursive Narrative Bank that accumulates speaker-specific history, lets a large language model produce expressive, contextually consistent dialogue that can be rendered as character-conditioned speech, all without fine-tuning or additional supervision.

What carries the argument

The Recursive Narrative Bank: a speaker-aware, temporally structured memory that accumulates each character's dialogue history to maintain evolving goals, social context, and narrative roles across scenes.

If this is right

  • The same pipeline can produce coherent, fully voiced audiovisual stories across diverse settings and story lengths without retraining.
  • Dialogue remains grounded in both the visual content of each scene and the accumulated narrative context.
  • Character expression and emotional tone evolve naturally with the story rather than resetting per scene.
  • The framework scales to new story domains by swapping only the underlying story generation and speech synthesis models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same memory structure could support real-time interactive stories where user choices update the narrative bank on the fly.
  • Pairing this dialogue module with controllable video generators might reduce visible mismatches between spoken words and on-screen actions.
  • Extending the bank to track non-verbal cues extracted from the vision encoder could further tighten audiovisual alignment.

Load-bearing premise

A pretrained vision-language encoder can extract high-level visual semantics that are sufficient to guide a large language model in producing expressive dialogue consistent with both the current scene prompts and prior narrative context, without any fine-tuning.

What would settle it

Generate videos from a series of scene prompts and check whether the spoken dialogue often fails to match visible actions or character traits visible in the rendered scenes, or whether later scenes contradict earlier dialogue history.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2505.16819 by Ming C. Lin, Taewon Kang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Storytelling across Thematic Settings. We showcase multimodal storytelling across four distinct settings using animated characters. (a) Urban Exploration in San Francisco (Top, L) Shrek and Donkey reflect on the beauty of the Pacific sunset and the Golden Gate, blending humorous banter with visual splendor. (b) Urban Exploration in Las Vegas (Top, R): Kevin and Bob (Minions) navigate the vibrant nightlife … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of our proposed multimodal storytelling framework. Given a sequence of paired prompts (p1, p2),(p3, p4), . . . ,(p2N−1, p2N ), our system generates coherent video scenes, natural dialogue, and expressive speech. A story gener￾ation model (e.g., Text2Story (T2S)) synthesizes short video clips for each prompt pair, which are blended using Time-Weighted Blending (TWB) and refined with Semantic Action… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: End-to-End Comparison of Character-Driven Narrative Generation with Speech Rendering. We qualitatively compare three systems—Ours (left), Mochi + Speech Rendering (middle), and Vlogger + Speech Rendering (right)—in generating multimodal dialogue sequences from structured prompts. Each sequence includes sampled frames, generated dialogue, and corresponding audio spectrograms. While all systems receive ident… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Human Subjects Evaluation Results. (Left) Model comparison results across three conditions (Speech, Dialogue, End-to-End). Our model (dark blue) was preferred in the vast majority of cases, outperforming all baselines including Tacotron 2, Bark, BLIP, Mochi, and Vlogger. (Center) Ablation results for Recursive Narrative Bank and Key Frame Conditioning. Our full model again dominates, indicating the importa… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative Ablation Results on Dialogue Coherence. (Full Version) We showcase dialogue generated by our full model compared to ablated variants without the Recursive Narrative Bank (w/o RNB) and without Keyframe Conditioning (w/o KFC). The absence of RNB leads to disrupted narrative flow across scenes, while removing KFC yields contextually irrelevant or less grounded utterances. These results highlight t… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Recent advances in scene-based video generation enable coherent visual narratives from structured prompts, yet a key aspect of storytelling -- character-driven dialogue and speech -- remains underexplored. We present a modular pipeline that transforms action-level prompts into visually and auditorily grounded dialogue, enriching scene-based storytelling with natural voice and character expression. Our method takes a pair of prompts per scene, defining the setting and character behavior. While a story generation model such as Text2Story produces the visual scene, we focus on generating expressive, character-consistent utterances grounded in both the prompts and a representative scene image. A pretrained vision-language encoder extracts high-level visual semantics, which are combined with structured prompts to guide a large language model for dialogue synthesis. To maintain contextual and emotional consistency across scenes, we introduce a Recursive Narrative Bank, a speaker-aware, temporally structured memory that accumulates each character's dialogue history. Inspired by Script Theory, this design enables dialogue that reflects evolving goals, social context, and narrative roles. Finally, we render each utterance as expressive, character-conditioned speech, producing fully voiced, multimodal video narratives. Our training-free framework generalizes across diverse story settings, providing a scalable solution for coherent, character-grounded audiovisual storytelling.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents a modular, training-free pipeline for generating character-centered dialogue from scene-level prompts in scene-based video generation. It uses a pretrained vision-language encoder to extract high-level visual semantics from a representative scene image, fuses these with action-level and character-behavior prompts to guide an LLM in synthesizing expressive utterances, maintains cross-scene consistency via a new Recursive Narrative Bank memory module that accumulates speaker-aware dialogue history, and renders the output as character-conditioned speech to produce fully voiced multimodal narratives, drawing inspiration from Script Theory.

Significance. If empirically validated, the work could meaningfully advance character-driven audiovisual storytelling by filling a gap in dialogue generation for coherent scene-based video systems. The training-free design leveraging off-the-shelf components and the conceptual contribution of the Recursive Narrative Bank for temporal and emotional coherence across scenes represent potential strengths for scalability and generalization.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract: The central claims that the pipeline produces 'expressive, character-consistent utterances' and 'visually and auditorily grounded dialogue' maintained via the Recursive Narrative Bank are unsupported, as the manuscript provides no quantitative evaluations, ablation studies, user studies, or baseline comparisons to substantiate consistency, expressiveness, or visual grounding.
  2. Method description (pipeline overview): The assumption that a pretrained vision-language encoder alone extracts semantics sufficient to guide an LLM toward prompt-grounded and expressive dialogue without fine-tuning or supervision is load-bearing for the training-free claim but remains untested; if the encoder outputs are too coarse, the downstream LLM synthesis cannot compensate as described.
minor comments (1)
  1. Abstract: Clarify the exact update mechanism and data structure of the Recursive Narrative Bank (e.g., how speaker awareness and temporal ordering are implemented) to aid reproducibility, perhaps via pseudocode.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below, indicating planned revisions where appropriate to strengthen the presentation of the training-free pipeline and the Recursive Narrative Bank.

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  1. Referee: [—] Abstract: The central claims that the pipeline produces 'expressive, character-consistent utterances' and 'visually and auditorily grounded dialogue' maintained via the Recursive Narrative Bank are unsupported, as the manuscript provides no quantitative evaluations, ablation studies, user studies, or baseline comparisons to substantiate consistency, expressiveness, or visual grounding.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript supports its claims primarily through qualitative examples and illustrative cases rather than quantitative metrics or user studies. The work focuses on introducing a modular, training-free framework, with the Recursive Narrative Bank as a conceptual contribution for cross-scene consistency. In the revision, we will qualify the abstract language to reflect the available evidence (e.g., 'illustrated through examples') and add a new section presenting extended qualitative results across multiple story domains along with a small-scale human preference study comparing outputs with and without the memory bank. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [—] Method description (pipeline overview): The assumption that a pretrained vision-language encoder alone extracts semantics sufficient to guide an LLM toward prompt-grounded and expressive dialogue without fine-tuning or supervision is load-bearing for the training-free claim but remains untested; if the encoder outputs are too coarse, the downstream LLM synthesis cannot compensate as described.

    Authors: The vision-language encoder is used to supply high-level visual semantics that are explicitly fused with the action-level and character-behavior prompts before being passed to the LLM; the LLM is further guided by structured instructions and the accumulating Recursive Narrative Bank to produce grounded utterances. We acknowledge that this reliance on off-the-shelf components is central to the training-free design and will expand the method section with concrete examples of encoder outputs, the exact fusion prompt template, and a discussion of cases where coarse semantics might limit expressiveness, including how the speaker-aware memory helps mitigate drift across scenes. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: modular pipeline uses external pretrained components without internal reductions or self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper presents a training-free modular pipeline that composes off-the-shelf vision-language encoders, LLMs, and a newly introduced Recursive Narrative Bank to generate dialogue from scene prompts and images. No equations, parameter fittings, or derivations are described that would reduce outputs to inputs by construction. Claims rest on the independent capabilities of pretrained models and the explicit accumulation of dialogue history for cross-scene coherence, with no load-bearing self-citations or ansatzes imported from prior author work. The derivation chain is self-contained as a descriptive composition rather than a closed mathematical loop.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The approach depends on assumptions about the capabilities of off-the-shelf pretrained models and introduces one new structural component without external validation.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Pretrained vision-language encoders extract high-level semantics that are directly useful for guiding dialogue generation in an LLM.
    Invoked in the step where visual semantics are combined with prompts to condition the language model.
invented entities (1)
  • Recursive Narrative Bank no independent evidence
    purpose: Speaker-aware, temporally structured memory that accumulates each character's dialogue history to enforce contextual and emotional consistency across scenes.
    Presented as an original design inspired by Script Theory; no independent evidence or external benchmarks provided in the abstract.

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