AI Talking Photo API

Let your users create videos from photos in minutes with a state-of-the-art avatar generator. Preserve their looks without the uncanny valley effect or hallucinations.

State-of-the-art AI video generation

Attract new users and help them scale their content creation with Banuba’s AI talking photo API. Easily accessible by the developers and producing natural-looking results, it is a way to quickly add a killer feature to your app and get ahead of the competition.

How AI Image-To-Video Works

How AI Image-To-Video Works

  • A user uploads a photo to be used in the generation;

  • With a text prompt, a user defines how the avatar should talk and act. This prompt can be as vague or as specific as necessary;

  • A user selects the audio track to be voiced by the avatar. This could also include uploading a custom track;

  • Specially designed neural networks animate the person in the photo, ensuring accurate lip syncing and natural facial expressions;
  • The resulting video can then be exported or generated anew.

Advantages of Banuba AI talking photo API

Realistic look
Unlike general-purpose neural networks, our product creates no distortions or hallucinations.
Ease of use
Simple, well-documented API and a streamlined user flow makes it very convenient for both devs & customers.
Full-body animation
The avatar’s body can move naturally, making it indistinguishable from a real human presenter.
Why Banuba

Why Banuba

  • In-house R&D department staffed by PhD-level computer scientists;

  • Dedicated neural networks purposefully trained by researchers in our AI lab;

  • More than 100 corporate clients, millions of users, and billions of feature launches per year;

  • Experience building AI features, including AI captions, AI clipping & animated avatars;

  • Over 9 years in the augmented reality market.

Use cases

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    Marketing

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    eLearning

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    Product explainers

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    Presentations

How Our Customers Succeeded

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Client: Uhive
Use case: An innovative social network
Results:
  • Full-fledged video editing suite
  • Recording content without leaving the app
  • Expanded effects library
  • Royalty-free music provider integration
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Client: Weat
Use case: Video-native social commerce platform
Results: A TikTok-like app for foodies was able to go to market much faster thanks to Banuba.
  • The video editor SDK offered all the core features for a short video social network
  • Total development time decreased by 50%
  • High user ratings and positive reviews
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Client: House Of Rock
Use case: Travel & Social App
Results: Helping an innovative app launch faster and impress users.
  • Banuba delivered augmented reality effects and video editing features

  • Positive user reviews

  • Drastically cut the time-to-market

Banuba and Videoshop Case Study
Client: Videoshop
Use case: Video editing
Results: Adding augmented reality effects helped reach over 20 million downloads and high user ratings
  • Virtual backgrounds, 3D filters, touch-up, interactive effects

  • 4.6/5 on PlayMarket, 4.9/5 on AppStore

  • 20M+ downloads

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Client: Chingari
Use case: Short-video sharing platform
Results:
  • Video and audio editing tools similar to TikTok.
  • Users create and share entertaining content using video editing features and effects.
  • Awards based on how viral the video becomes.
  • Uniquely Indianised AR filters.
  • 550,000 downloads in just ten days, over 2.5 million downloads total.
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Client: Jalsa
Use case: Short video social app
Results:
  • Helping young audiences express their talents with video creation.
  • Record 15-second video clips using a built-in mobile video editor.
  • Easy and intuitive video editing features.
  • Most popular and trendy video processing effects. 
  • Fun AR filters to apply in live mode or after recording.
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FAQ
  • AI talking photo is creation of a dynamic video from a static portrait. Advanced ones, like Banuba, include precise lip syncing, body animations, and AI voice generation to ensure that the digital avatar looks and feels like a real person. 

    An API is a set of rules that apps use to communicate with each other. 

    Banuba offers an API that lets companies add the talking photo feature to their apps.

  • Our AI avatar API provides developers with the tools to enable creating talking videos from photos. These developers can create their own user flows based on our technology.

    However, Banuba itself doesn’t collect or store any personal information.

  • The best ones are portraits with the person looking directly at the camera. The face should be moderately well lit and not covered by anything.

  • Banuba’s AI talking photo API supports any language. It is designed in a way to simulate human sounds, so you can reach your customers in any region and country.

  • There are no hard limits on video resolutions that our technology works with. We recommend the standard 1920x1080, common for footage taken with a smartphone.

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