# Talking heads & avatars: agent skills for AI avatar and talking head videos

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AI avatars, lip sync, presenters, podcasts and dialogue videos. 15 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## Use cases

- [Talking avatar or presenter](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/talking-avatar.md): A person (from a headshot, or generated) speaks your script to camera with lip-sync, in any language.

## Skills (15)

### Effects (2)

- [3D Camera Captions](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-camera-3d-captions.md) — HeyGen: Captions that live in 3D around a talking head: the camera flies through the words, heroes pass behind the speaker.
- [Cinematic Caption](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/cinematic-caption-audrey.md) — Audrey, beta: Designed editorial captions for HyperFrames: scored hero words, subject-aware depth, glass type — not a subtitle strip.

### Styles (1)

- [Halftone Collage B-roll](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/gbro-collage-broll.md) — pyang5166, beta: Editorial halftone paper-collage B-roll from one line of script, with three approval gates before any video spend.

### Workflows (9)

- [Character Keynote](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-character-keynote.md) — varg, beta: One render call: a Soul character delivers a keynote-style ad line on a generated stage, voiced by Seedance 2.5.
- [Consistent Characters](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-consistent-characters.md) — varg, beta: Multi-scene ads where the same actors, outfits and location hold in every cut: cards, composites, Kling v3 clips.
- [Podcast Dialogue Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-podcast-video.md) — varg, beta: Two-character podcast or debate clips: one studio set, locked camera angles, MiniMax H3 Max with native audio.
- [fal UGC](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-ugc.md) — fal: Script and generate UGC-style creator ads: talking heads, demos, testimonials, unboxings and reactions.
- [Talking Head Production](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-talking-head-production.md) — inference.sh: Produce talking-head videos with AI avatars, lip-sync and voiceover, from portrait specs to final cut.
- [AI Podcast Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-podcast.md) — inference.sh: Generate a multi-person talking-head podcast video from scratch: characters, voices, avatars, stitching.
- [Lanshu AI Presenter Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/lanshu-ai-presenter-video.md) — Lanshu: Publish-ready explainers led by an AI presenter from an authorized photo, or in one of twelve presenter-free styles.
- [Chengfeng Videocut](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/chengfeng-videocut.md) — chengfeng: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
- [Herk Edit Kit](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/herk-edit-kit.md) — Nate Herk: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.

### Models & tools (3)

- [varg AI](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-ai.md) — varg: The official varg skill: videos, images, speech and music through one API key, rendered in the cloud or locally.
- [AI Avatar Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-avatar-video.md) — inference.sh: Create talking-head avatar videos from a portrait and a script, with a lip-synced voice.
- [P-Video Avatar](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-p-video-avatar.md) — inference.sh: Turn one portrait into a speaking avatar video with Pruna P-Video-Avatar, its built-in TTS or your audio.