# wavespeed-ai/ai-video-editor/talking-head

> AI Video Editor Talking Head cleans up a talking-to-camera video: it removes filler words, false starts, repeats and dead air, keeps the speaker framed, and burns in accurate word-timed captions. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

## Overview

- **Endpoint**: `https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/wavespeed-ai/ai-video-editor/talking-head`
- **Polling/result URL**: `https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/${PREDICTION_ID}/result`
- **Model ID**: `wavespeed-ai/ai-video-editor/talking-head`
- **Category**: video-to-video

## API Information

This model can be used via our HTTP API or more conveniently via our client libraries.
The API is asynchronous: submit a prediction, then poll its result URL until it completes.

### Input Schema

The API accepts the following input parameters:

- **`videos`** (`array of string`, _required_):
  The talking-head video to edit. Up to 2 hours is processed.

- **`aspect_ratio`** (`string`, _optional_):
  Aspect ratio of the output video. Auto-detected from the source video if not specified. Other ratios follow the speaker's face.
  - Options: "16:9", "9:16", "1:1", "4:5", "5:4", "4:3", "3:4", "3:2", "2:3", "21:9"

- **`caption_style`** (`string`, _optional_):
  Burned-in captions. "highlight" lights up each word as it is spoken, "plain" shows static caption lines, "none" adds no captions.
  - Default: `"highlight"`
  - Options: "highlight", "plain", "none"

- **`language`** (`string`, _optional_):
  Language spoken in the source video. "auto" detects it; set it when detection is unreliable, for example with heavy accents, background music or very short speech.
  - Default: `"auto"`
  - Options: "auto", "en", "fr", "es", "pt", "it", "ru", "zh-CN", "zh-TW", "ja", "ko"



**Required Parameters Example**:

```json
{
  "videos": [
    "https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/media/cc0-videos/flower.mp4"
  ]
}
```

**Full Example**:

```json
{
  "videos": [
    "https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/media/cc0-videos/flower.mp4"
  ],
  "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
  "caption_style": "highlight",
  "language": "auto"
}
```

### Result Data Schema

The `data` object returned by the API has the following fields:

- **`created_at`** (`string (date-time)`, _optional_):
  ISO timestamp of when the request was created (e.g., "2023-04-01T12:34:56.789Z").

- **`id`** (`string`, _optional_):
  Unique identifier for the prediction, the ID of the prediction to get.

- **`model`** (`string`, _optional_):
  Model ID used for the prediction.

- **`outputs`** (`array of string | object`, _optional_):
  Array of generated outputs (empty when status is not completed). Items are usually URL strings, but may be text strings or structured result objects, depending on the model.

- **`status`** (`string`, _optional_):
  Status of the task: created, processing, completed, or failed.

- **`urls`** (`object`, _optional_):
  Object containing related API endpoints.



**Example `data` Object**:

```json
{
  "created_at": "example",
  "id": "example",
  "model": "example",
  "outputs": [],
  "status": "example",
  "urls": {}
}
```

## Usage Examples

The examples use `jq` to read JSON. Set your API key first:

```bash
set -euo pipefail
export WAVESPEED_API_KEY="your-api-key"
```

### 1. Submit a prediction

```bash
REQUEST_BODY=$(cat <<'JSON'
{
  "videos": [
    "https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/media/cc0-videos/flower.mp4"
  ]
}
JSON
)

SUBMIT_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
  --request POST \
  --url https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/wavespeed-ai/ai-video-editor/talking-head \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${WAVESPEED_API_KEY}" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data "${REQUEST_BODY}")

printf '%s\n' "${SUBMIT_RESPONSE}" | jq .
```

The response contains the prediction ID in `data.id`.

### 2. Poll until complete and read `outputs`

```bash
PREDICTION_ID=$(printf '%s' "${SUBMIT_RESPONSE}" | jq -r '.data.id')
if [ -z "${PREDICTION_ID}" ] || [ "${PREDICTION_ID}" = "null" ]; then
  printf 'Submission response did not contain data.id\n' >&2
  exit 1
fi
RESULT_URL="https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/${PREDICTION_ID}/result"

while true; do
  RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
    --request GET \
    --url "${RESULT_URL}" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer ${WAVESPEED_API_KEY}")

  RESULT=$(printf '%s' "${RESPONSE}" | jq -e '.data')
  STATUS=$(printf '%s' "${RESULT}" | jq -er '.status')
  case "${STATUS}" in
    completed)
      # Generated files are returned in the outputs array.
      printf '%s\n' "${RESULT}" | jq '.outputs'
      break
      ;;
    failed|cancelled|timeout|deleted)
      printf '%s\n' "${RESULT}" | jq '{status, error, code}'
      exit 1
      ;;
    *)
      sleep 2
      ;;
  esac
done
```

## Additional Resources

### Documentation

- [Model Playground](https://wavespeed.ai/models/wavespeed-ai/ai-video-editor/talking-head)
- [API Documentation](https://wavespeed.ai/docs/docs-api/wavespeed-ai/ai-video-editor-talking-head)