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LongCat Avatar

The free, open-source talking-avatar model. One photo + one audio clip = a lip-synced talking video.

Added July 15, 2026
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Built and open-sourced by Meituan's LongCat team under the MIT licence, so the model itself is free — no subscription and no per-minute billing when you run it yourself.
Part 1 — What it can do
1
The core feature

Photo + audio to talking video

Upload a single portrait and an audio clip. LongCat gives you back a proper talking avatar, with mouth movement that matches the audio frame for frame.

2
Whisper-Large audio encoder

Accurate lip sync

Version 1.5 upgraded the audio encoder to Whisper-Large, which reads phonemes and rhythm more finely — so mouth shapes land on the right sounds.

3
Not just speech

Singing avatars

Feed it a song and the avatar performs it — rhythm-aware head and body motion, not a static face with a moving mouth.

4
Natural movement, not a puppet

Full-body avatars

Gestures, posture shifts and hand movement stay coordinated with the audio, so the body reads as a person actually speaking.

5
No freeze between lines

Natural during silence

Most avatar tools go stiff the second the audio stops. LongCat separates speech from motion, so blinking, breathing and small posture shifts carry on through pauses.

6
Multi-person support

Multiple characters in one scene

Two or more speakers in the same shot, each holding their own identity, with natural speaker/listener turn-taking.

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