# Lanshu AI Presenter Video — workflow skill for talking heads & avatars

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Publish-ready explainers led by an AI presenter from an authorized photo, or in one of twelve presenter-free styles.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Talking heads & avatars](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/talking-head.md)
- **Slug:** `lanshu-ai-presenter-video`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Lanshu (community)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/cclank/lanshu-create-ai-presenter-video
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Python 3.9+, FFmpeg with ffprobe, bash and jq, Node.js (npx) and rsync for the styled-explainer route, Provider credentials for voice and presenter generation
- **Cost:** Uses your own voice and video provider keys; the provider is chosen per job
- **Adoption:** 37 installs, 2,818 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Turns a topic or a finished script into a complete explainer video, either led by an AI presenter generated from an authorized adult presenter image or performed without a presenter in one of twelve explainer styles (nine visual, such as paper pop-up, clay town, blueprint and chalkboard, plus three narrative ones). It runs a resumable job state machine (lock content and audio, plan and generate the presenter, edit, verify and deliver), supports revising, captioning, lip-sync repair and re-exporting an existing job, and records the actual model and provider chosen for each job instead of hard-coding one. Published by Lanshu (cclank), with Chinese and English READMEs.

## Use when

- Make a digital-presenter explainer from a script
- Pick a presenter-free explainer style
- Fix lip sync or captions on an existing presenter job

## Not for

- Promos, ads or footage montages (the skill excludes them)
- Presenter images you are not authorized to use

## Install

- Claude Code: `git clone https://github.com/cclank/lanshu-create-ai-presenter-video.git ~/.claude/skills/lanshu-create-ai-presenter-video`

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lanshu-ai-presenter-video.mp4 — Creator's explainer on Hugging Face Storage: an AI presenter generated and embedded by this skill beside code-drawn explainer panels (graphics via the creator's companion html2video skill). First 8 s of 30 s. (credit: 岚叔 Lanshu (@LufzzLiz), https://x.com/LufzzLiz/status/2094018562046271682)

## Used for

- [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.

## More talking heads & avatars skills

- [Character Keynote](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-character-keynote.md): One render call: a Soul character delivers a keynote-style ad line on a generated stage, voiced by Seedance 2.5.
- [Podcast Dialogue Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-podcast-video.md): Two-character podcast or debate clips: one studio set, locked camera angles, MiniMax H3 Max with native audio.
- [Talking Head Production](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-talking-head-production.md): Produce talking-head videos with AI avatars, lip-sync and voiceover, from portrait specs to final cut.
- [AI Avatar Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-avatar-video.md): 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): Turn one portrait into a speaking avatar video with Pruna P-Video-Avatar, its built-in TTS or your audio.
- [AI Podcast Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-podcast.md): Generate a multi-person talking-head podcast video from scratch: characters, voices, avatars, stitching.

## Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt