AI Talking Photos API Documentation

AI Talking Photos API Documentation

Playground

AI Talking Photos brings your photos to life — upload a portrait and text, and watch the person speak. Supports 5-15 seconds duration. Ready-to-use REST inference API, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Features

AI Talking Photos makes any portrait speak. Upload a photo, type what you want the person to say, and AI generates a realistic talking video with accurate lip-sync — no filming, no voiceover recording required.

Why Choose This?

• Realistic lip-sync generation AI maps the text to natural lip movements and facial expressions for believable, human-quality talking video.

• Any portrait, any text Works on photos of real people, illustrations, historical figures, or fictional characters — if there’s a face, it can talk.

• Adjustable duration Generate clips from 5 to 15 seconds to match your content length.

• Reproducible results Use the seed parameter to lock in a specific output for consistent iterations.

Parameters

How to Use

1. Upload a portrait — a clear, front-facing photo with a visible mouth works best.
2. Enter your text — type what you want the person to say.
3. Set duration — choose between 5 and 15 seconds based on your text length.
4. Set seed (optional) — fix the seed to reproduce a specific result in future runs.
5. Submit — generate, preview, and download your talking video.

Pricing

Billing Rules

• Rate: $0.06 per second
• Duration range: 5–15 seconds

Best Use Cases

• Social media content — Create engaging talking-head videos from photos without any filming.
• Marketing & advertising — Generate spokesperson or product explainer videos from still images.
• Education — Bring historical figures, book characters, or concept illustrations to life.
• Entertainment — Make friends’ or celebrities’ photos deliver a custom message for fun.

Pro Tips

• Clear, well-lit front-facing portraits with a fully visible mouth produce the most accurate lip-sync.
• Match your text length to your chosen duration — roughly 2–3 words per second for natural pacing.
• Fix the seed when iterating on text variations to keep the facial performance consistent.

Notes

• Both image and text are required fields.
• Duration range: 5–15 seconds.
• Ensure image URLs are publicly accessible if using a link rather than a direct upload.
• Please ensure your content complies with WaveSpeed AI’s usage policies.

Authentication

For authentication details, please refer to the Authentication Guide.

API Endpoints

Submit Task & Query Result

set -euo pipefail

export WAVESPEED_API_KEY="your-api-key"

REQUEST_BODY=$(cat <<'JSON'
{
  "image": "https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/media/cc0-images/painted-hand-298-332.jpg",
  "text": "A clear example input",
  "duration": 5,
  "seed": -1
}
JSON
)

# 1. Submit the prediction.
SUBMIT_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
  -X POST "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/wavespeed-ai/ai-talking-photos" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WAVESPEED_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "${REQUEST_BODY}")

TASK=$(printf '%s' "${SUBMIT_RESPONSE}" | jq 'if type == "object" and has("data") then .data else . end')
PREDICTION_ID=$(printf '%s' "${TASK}" | jq -r '.id // empty')
if [ -z "${PREDICTION_ID}" ]; then
  printf 'Submission response did not contain a prediction id
' >&2
  exit 1
fi
RESULT_URL=$(printf '%s' "${TASK}" | jq -r '.urls.get // empty')
if [ -z "${RESULT_URL}" ]; then RESULT_URL="https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/${PREDICTION_ID}/result"; fi

# 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while true; do
  RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
    "${RESULT_URL}" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WAVESPEED_API_KEY}")
  RESULT=$(printf '%s' "${RESPONSE}" | jq 'if type == "object" and has("data") then .data else . end')
  STATUS=$(printf '%s' "${RESULT}" | jq -r '.status // empty')

  case "${STATUS}" in
    completed) printf '%s\n' "${RESULT}" | jq '.outputs'; break ;;
    failed|cancelled|timeout) printf '%s\n' "${RESULT}" | jq . >&2; exit 1 ;;
    created|processing) sleep 2 ;;
    *) printf 'Unexpected status: %s
' "${STATUS}" >&2; exit 1 ;;
  esac
done

Parameters

Task Submission Parameters

Request Parameters

Response Parameters

Result Request Parameters

Result Response Parameters