Despite significant advances in talking avatar generation, existing methods face critical challenges: insufficient text-following capability for diverse actions, lack of temporal alignment between actions and audio content, and dependency on additional control signals such as pose skeletons. We present ActAvatar, a framework that achieves phase-level precision in action control through textual guidance by capturing both action semantics and temporal context. Our approach introduces three core innovations: (1) Phase-Aware Cross-Attention (PACA), which decomposes prompts into a global base block and temporally-anchored phase blocks, enabling the model to concentrate on phase-relevant tokens for precise temporal-semantic alignment; (2) Progressive Audio-Visual Alignment, which aligns modality influence with the hierarchical feature learning process-early layers prioritize text for establishing action structure while deeper layers emphasize audio for refining lip movements, preventing modality interference; (3) A two-stage training strategy that first establishes robust audio-visual correspondence on diverse data, then injects action control through fine-tuning on structured annotations, maintaining both audio-visual alignment and the model's text-following capabilities. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ActAvatar significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both action control and visual quality.

翻译：尽管说话虚拟人生成技术已取得显著进展，现有方法仍面临关键挑战：针对多样化动作的文本跟随能力不足、动作与音频内容间缺乏时序对齐，以及依赖姿势骨架等额外控制信号。本文提出ActAvatar，一个通过文本引导实现相位级精度动作控制的框架，其同时捕捉动作语义与时序上下文。我们的方法引入三项核心创新：（1）相位感知交叉注意力机制，将提示词分解为全局基础块与时序锚定的相位块，使模型能聚焦于相位相关词元以实现精确的时序-语义对齐；（2）渐进式视听对齐机制，将模态影响与层次化特征学习过程相协调——浅层优先处理文本以建立动作结构，深层侧重音频以细化唇部运动，从而防止模态干扰；（3）两阶段训练策略，先在多样化数据上建立稳健的视听对应关系，再通过结构化标注的微调注入动作控制，同时保持视听对齐与模型的文本跟随能力。大量实验表明，ActAvatar在动作控制与视觉质量方面均显著优于现有最先进方法。