sync. labs blog: AI lip sync research, tutorials and insights
sync. labs is now in ChatGPT
Connect the sync. labs plugin in ChatGPT to lip sync videos, dub them into other languages, clone voices, generate speech, and make images talk, all from a prompt.
15 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Why AI lip sync still looks fake
AI lip sync gives itself away in a few predictable ways: floating teeth, broken side profiles, drifting timing, and a visible seam. Here's how to spot each one, and what separates production-grade lip sync from a gimmick.
14 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
The film grain problem nobody has solved
Film grain gives footage a cinematic look but breaks VFX work. Here's why degraining and regraining are so hard, and an early look at onegrain.
7 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
What is AI lip sync? Meaning, uses, and tools
What lip sync means, how AI lip sync regenerates a speaker's mouth to match new audio, what it's used for, and how to try it on your own video.
2 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
Lipsync in DaVinci Resolve Studio
Lip sync without leaving your timeline. The sync. labs plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio lets you pick clips from the media pool, run any sync. labs lip sync model, and drop the result straight back into your edit.
24 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
image-to-video on sync-3
image-to-video is live on sync-3. Upload a single still, add audio, and get a fully lip synced talking video back. No source footage required.
9 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
How AI lip sync actually works
The architectures, the training trick that changed the field, and the failure modes nobody talks about. An honest look at what modern AI lip sync models are doing under the hood.
28 May 2026 · 7 min read
The future of dubbing is visual
Why dubbing has always meant compromise between accuracy and immersion, and how AI lip sync flips the model so performances travel across languages.
19 May 2026 · 4 min read
AI dubbing meets lip sync, in Sync
AI dubbing is now built into sync. labs. Translate, dub, and lip sync video in one workflow, powered by ElevenLabs voice and sync. labs lip sync models.
14 May 2026 · 2 min read
sync-3: the most intelligent lipsync model
sync-3 is our most advanced AI lip sync model. It reads the whole scene with spatial reasoning and holds up on sharp angles, low light, multiple speakers, and 4K 60fps.
6 Apr 2026 · 4 min read
lipsync 2.0
lipsync-2 is the world's first zero-shot lip sync model that preserves a speaker's unique style without any training or fine-tuning, across live-action, animation, and AI-generated video.
20 Aug 2025 · 2 min read
Lipsync at Scale: Introducing the Batch API
Run up to 500 AI lipsync generations in a single request. Built for video localization, multilingual campaigns, and any workflow that needs lip sync at scale.
11 Aug 2025 · 1 min read
AI lip sync and dubbing for YouTubers
How AI lip sync and AI dubbing help YouTubers go global without reshooting: how the workflow works, who is using it (MrBeast, Mark Rober, Nas Daily), and the best tools.
14 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Projects, create, organize, collaborate
Projects in the sync. playground let you group generations and presets, share work with your team, and stop losing your best experiments to scroll-fatigue.
10 Feb 2025 · 2 min read
Edit any part of a video with AI lip sync
A step-by-step guide to changing what someone says in a video with AI lip sync: prep the clip, clone or pick a voice, generate the line, and re-sync the lips in sync. labs.
6 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Lip sync tools for marketing videos
How video editors use AI lip sync to make marketing videos land: the emotions that matter by industry, the steps to use it responsibly, and how to measure the impact.
31 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
AI lip-sync for video editing: a guide
A practical guide to using AI lip sync in a professional editing workflow: how the tech works, the steps, how it fits your pipeline, and where the field is heading.
30 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
How to automate lip dub and scale globally
How to automate lip dub with an AI workflow: pick target markets, generate a synced dub in one pass, measure ROI, and pair dubbing with subtitles and real-time translation.
30 Jan 2025 · 5 min read
Teams: collaborate and lipsync together
Teams brings everyone in your organization under one shared sync. account, centralized billing, shared keys, role-based access, and team-wide usage tracking.
25 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
What is ADR? Dialogue replacement explained
What automatic dialogue replacement (ADR) is, where it is used in film and content, what makes it hard, and how AI re-syncs the lips so a new track matches the picture.
23 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
lipsync-1.9 beta: a new quality standard
lipsync-1.9-beta is the most natural zero-shot lip sync model we've ever shipped, end-to-end, no per-speaker training, working on live-action, animated, and AI-generated video.
15 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
sync. x Sieve: powering ai dubbing
sync. is partnering with Sieve to power their AI dubbing pipeline with sync-1.9.0-beta, voice cloning, culturally relevant translation, and natural lip sync, available as one API.
14 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
The best free open source lipsync tools
A practical guide to the open-source ai lip sync tools worth knowing, LatentSync, MuseTalk, Wav2Lip, and SadTalker, what each one is good at, where each one breaks, and how to pick between them.
10 Jan 2025 · 5 min read
lipsync-1.8.0-beta in research preview
lipsync-1.8.0-beta is a new zero-shot lip sync model from sync. that holds up on real, in-the-wild video, with sharper teeth, better skin tone matching, and the start of a whole new model family.
11 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Introducing the sync. playground
The sync. playground lets you make API requests, test and compare every lip sync model, save custom presets, and grab generated code, all from your browser.
1 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
How AI lip sync fuels viral celebrity memes
A look at why ai lip sync became the engine behind a new wave of viral celebrity memes, the tools, the cultural patterns, and the legal lines worth knowing.
24 Sept 2024 · 3 min read
sync. x Kapwing: powering lipsync for everyone
sync. is now powering Kapwing's AI Personas, letting Kapwing's millions of creators make zero-shot, talking-head videos from just 15 seconds of footage.
19 Sept 2024 · 3 min read
sync. announces $5.5M seed round
sync. raises $5.5M led by Google Ventures to build the AI tools that make video less camera-dependent, record once, create forever.
16 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Audio-Visual Face Reenactment
An identity-aware talking head video method that combines a dense motion field from learnable keypoints with audio conditioning on the mouth region, and ships state-of-the-art results across unseen faces, languages, and voices.
6 Oct 2022 · 1 min read
