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Lipsync Studio: make any photo talk

Turn a still and a voice clip into a believable talking avatar in minutes.

4 min read · Nidhogg team

Lipsync Studio: make any photo talk

A talking avatar needs exactly two ingredients: a face and a voice. Lipsync Studio takes both and returns a video where the mouth, jaw and micro-expressions track the audio.

The two-minute version

Pick a source: upload a portrait (front-facing, mouth visible, decent resolution) or start from any image in your gallery — every artifact has a Lipsync button that carries it straight in.

Pick a voice: upload a recording, or generate one inline — type your script, choose a voice preset, and the TTS engine renders the track without leaving the panel.

Generate. Image-driven engines animate a still into a talking head; video-driven engines re-dub an existing clip so the lips match new words.

What makes it believable

Short lines beat monologues — energy stays natural under 20 seconds. Match voice character to face (a weathered face with a teenage voice breaks the spell). And light your source portrait like an interview: soft, frontal, no hard shadows across the mouth.

Try it yourself

Open the composer and put this guide to work.

Start generating

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