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Tips from the README: adjust --pads (e.g. --pads 0 20 0 0 adds bottom padding to include the chin); if the mouth is dislocated or two mouths appear, over-smoothing of face detections is the cause - use --nosmooth; use --resize_factor to lower resolution because models were trained on lower-resolution faces, and 720p often looks better than 1080p; the non-GAN model needs more tuning but can be better; Wav2Lip+GAN trades slightly inferior lip-sync for better visual quality. Training sanity: expert-discriminator eval loss about 0.25 and Wav2Lip eval sync loss about 0.2 are said to be needed for good results; fine-tuning on a few minutes of one speaker is stated not to work. Right...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Older GAN lip-sync still appears in many pipelines; its failure modes and licence are often missed. Conditions. Wav2Lip open-source release trained on LRS2. 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