XCAT 3.0: Generate talking head video from image and audio

Demo summary
The user demonstrates uploading a reference image and an audio clip to Multi-Talk, configuring background removal and text prompts to generate a video of a woman speaking in a park.
Step-by-step
- Upload a reference image of your character
- Select an injection mode such as Inject only people or objects
- Toggle Remove background if you want to change the setting
- Upload the audio clip for the character to speak
- Enter a text prompt describing the final scene
- Set the aspect ratio and resolution
- Calculate and set the number of frames by multiplying the audio duration in seconds by 25
- Adjust the number of inference steps
- Click Generate
Options
- Generate video using only a text description without a reference image
- Keep the original background instead of removing it
- Increase Guidance to make the AI follow the text prompt more closely
- Increase Audio Guidance to improve lip-sync accuracy
- Activate T-cache or Meg-cache to speed up generation by up to 2.5x
- Use temporal or spatial upsamplers after generation for better quality
Watch out for
- The first run requires downloading large files including Depth-Anything (1GB+) and Text-Video-Fusion-X (15GB)
- Lowering inference steps to speed up generation will sacrifice video quality
- Activating T-cache or Meg-cache speeds up generation by skipping steps, which may impact quality
Tips
- Upload a reference image rather than using text-only for more control over the character
- Leave inference steps at the default of 10 for a balance of speed and quality
- If you have a decent amount of VRAM, leave cache settings at None to avoid quality loss
- Most settings work fine at their default values without manual adjustment
Highlights
“usually everything just works fine without you needing to change any of these settings”
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