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# Persona

Tool for creating talking head videos using generative AI. Uses the following projects/libraries:

1. [Tortoise-TTS](https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts) - generating speech
2. [SDXL-Turbo](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-turbo) - generating the digital avatar image
3. [One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking Head Synthesis](https://github.com/zhanglonghao1992/One-Shot_Free-View_Neural_Talking_Head_Synthesis) - animating the face
4. [Wav2Lip](https://github.com/Rudrabha/Wav2Lip) - using speech to generate lip movement and superimposing it on the animated face
5. [Real ESRGAN](https://github.com/ai-forever/Real-ESRGAN) - improving the image and scaling it

# Examples

## Santa Claus Christmas Greetings
https://github.com/sausheong/persona/assets/5962/2d60798f-e877-46b1-90a0-afa864dab50e

## Chinese New Year Greetings
https://github.com/sausheong/persona/assets/5962/31ae4da6-3739-49aa-b4a7-5d20e6759795

## NORAD Tracking Santa
https://github.com/sausheong/persona/assets/5962/c400edfd-7316-4d07-998f-9b94bf5c64af

## Taking photos and videos
https://github.com/sausheong/persona/assets/5962/1862f202-ec10-40e2-9ebc-83652945924e

## Apple closing its Infinite Loop retail store
https://github.com/sausheong/persona/assets/5962/575667e5-7946-4fd7-9eae-1192e79f7392

## Apple closing its Infinite Loop retail store (2)
https://github.com/sausheong/persona/assets/5962/68018299-a458-4f9f-8fa3-9640f910dfaf


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