Avatar models animate a portrait and sync lip movement to audio, producing a video with a talking presenter. This speeds up training videos, presentations and ads. Consider the license, GPU requirements and the rights to use a specific person's face and voice.
Text-to-video and image-to-video; the small version runs on a gaming GPU. After 2.2 only applied models are open: editing (VACE), audio-driven talking characters (S2V), dancing to music (Dancer).
Audio-driven talking people built on LongCat-Video. Version 1.5 is production-ready: stable long videos in Chinese and English.
A series of audio-driven talking portraits: from short clips to hour-long 4K videos. Hallo-Live is built for real-time use.
Generates video of a talking person with sound in one go: a single transformer processes text, video and audio. Speech in 7 languages; Russian is not among them. Fast distilled versions are available.
Video models for cinematic scenes with people. Can make videos of unlimited length, extend videos and create talking characters from audio.
Ant Group's talking avatars: the face and, from V2, hand gestures. V3-Flash produces video in 8 steps and fits into 12 GB of GPU memory.
A real-time streaming avatar of unlimited length. Suits live broadcasts and dialogue, but needs powerful server hardware.
Dubbing and talking characters built on Wan: MultiTalk handles dialogue between several people, InfiniteTalk re-dubs videos of any length with facial and body motion.
Matches lip movements in an existing video to a new voice track. Version 1.6 works at 512 pixels and produces a sharper face.
Talking characters built on HunyuanVideo: conveys emotions from the voice, handles several characters and different styles.
Real-time lip sync: matches the mouth in a video to new audio. Suits video translation and live avatars.
Animates a portrait from a reference video: an actor's facial expressions and head turns are transferred to the photo. Runs fast even on a weak GPU.
An older lightweight talking-head model: one photo plus audio becomes a video. Runs on weak hardware, but quality is noticeably below newer models.
The classic lip-to-audio sync model, still popular in hobbyist setups. Lip movements are accurate but the face looks blurry; the license is non-commercial.
An open model can run on your own server: data stays in-house, there is no per-request fee, and the model can be fine-tuned on your documents.
