Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

VASA-1 - Microsoft Research

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@stroughtonsmith I made pretty much the same thing on classic Mac OS using MacInTalk to make a cartoon face animate like 30 years ago https://www.zenwheel.com/software/mouth.html
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