SadTalker
Create expressive, lip-synced talking heads from a single photo—open-source and ready to run.
Quick facts
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- Create expressive, lip-synced talking heads from a single photo—open-source and ready to run.
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Editor rating
- 4.5 / 5
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About SadTalker
SadTalker is an open-source AI system for generating realistic talking head videos from a single portrait image and optional short audio. It delivers accurate lip-sync, expressive facial motion (head pose, eye blinks, emotion), and supports both static photo driving and dynamic video-driven modes. Built on modules like Audio2Exp and MetaAudio2Face, the v2.0 release improves 3D motion quality, identity preservation, and reduces artifacts. A free web demo (no login) and a fully open GitHub implementation with downloadable checkpoints and Colab support make it accessible to creators, researchers, and developers.
Pros
- Generates talking head videos from a single portrait image and short audio
- Accurate lip-sync with expressive facial motion (head pose, eye blinks, emotion)
- Supports static photo-driven and dynamic video-driven modes
- Audio2Exp module for expression prediction
- MetaAudio2Face module for pose estimation
- Pose-guided and audio-driven components for enhanced realism
- v2.0 improvements: better 3D motion, identity preservation, fewer artifacts
- Inference speed ~0.3 s/frame on NVIDIA A100; CPU supported (slower)
- Free online demo with no login (audio ≤ ~10s, image <5MB)
- Optional image enhancement/retouch and MP4 download
- Open-source Apache 2.0 license with GitHub repo, checkpoints (~2GB), and Colab
- Known limits: short-audio cap, artifacts at extreme poses/emotions, English-first performance
Cons
Pricing
Basic
$9.9
- • 100 credits
- • Validity: 1 month
- • High quality video
- • Faster generation speed
- • Videos downloadable
- • Videos do not expire
Standard
$19.9
- • 300 credits
- • Validity: 3 months
- • High quality video
- • Faster generation speed
- • Videos downloadable
- • Videos do not expire
Pro
$29.9
- • 600 credits
- • Validity: 1 year
- • High quality video
- • Fastest generation speed
- • Videos downloadable
- • Commercial license
- • More parameters to adjust
- • Videos do not expire