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Towards Streaming Video Diffusion

2026 will be the year of real-time video generation

Dec 23, 2025

Towards Streaming Video Diffusion

Dec 23, 2025

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What I Learned by Building an AI-Driven Newsletter

One of the hardest parts of being a researcher in the current world of AI is keeping up with the insane volume of new work that seems to…

Aug 18, 2025

What I Learned by Building an AI-Driven Newsletter

Aug 18, 2025

Avatars and the EU AI Act

The EU has announced a series of regulations for AI companies; how will this affect lip-sync/avatar/deepfake providers?

Oct 29, 2024

Avatars and the EU AI Act

Oct 29, 2024

Breaking Down Synthesia 2.0

We take a look at the tech that's underpinning the impressive new launch.

Jun 24, 2024

Breaking Down Synthesia 2.0

Jun 24, 2024

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Scale Is All You Need for Lip-Sync?

Alibaba’s EMO and Microsoft’s VASA-1 are crazy good. Let’s break down how they work.

Jun 7, 2024

Scale Is All You Need for Lip-Sync?

Jun 7, 2024

The Definitive Guide to Lip Sync Companies

There are now so many lip-sync/AI Avatar/ Talking Face Generation Companies. Who is who?

May 25, 2024

The Definitive Guide to Lip Sync Companies

May 25, 2024

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Gaussian Head Avatars: A Summary

There has been a recent explosion of Gaussian Splatting papers and the avatar space is no exception. How do they work and are they going to…

Dec 19, 2023

Gaussian Head Avatars: A Summary

Dec 19, 2023

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READ Avatars: Realistic Emotion-controllable Audio Driven Avatars

Adding Emotional Control to Audio-Driven Deepfakes

Aug 25, 2023

READ Avatars: Realistic Emotion-controllable Audio Driven Avatars

Aug 25, 2023

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DAE Talking: High Fidelity Speech-Driven Talking Face Generation with Diffusion Autoencoder

Diffusion Models + Lots of Data = Practically Perfect Talking Head Generation

Jul 14, 2023

DAE Talking: High Fidelity Speech-Driven Talking Face Generation with Diffusion Autoencoder

Jul 14, 2023

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Towards Generating Ultra-High Resolution Talking-Face Videos with Lip-Synchronization

The holy grail of deepfake models is the person-generic model. So far no person-generic model has been of high visualquality, this paper is.

May 27, 2023

A 3 by 3 grid showing results of this method on a section of silence. The columns represent a sequence of frames over time. The top row shows the real video. The middle row shows Wav2Lip. It has obvious artefacts and the lips are moving. The bottom row is this paper. It looks much higher quality and the lips are shut, this is good because the image is meant to be showing silence.

May 27, 2023

Dr Jack Saunders

Dr Jack Saunders

AI research scientist working on and writing about digital humans, AI avatars, deep fakes and lip sync models.

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