
How to clone yourself with AI: your face and your voice
To clone yourself with AI, pair a photo of your face with a clone of your voice. On Sume: clone the voice, speak with TTS 1.0, lip sync with Fabric.
Sume Avatar 1.0 by API: reusable avatars, talking video from a script, multi-scene and two-speaker videos, previews, B-roll, and Face Swap (Beta).
Start with: Introducing Sume Avatar 1.0

To clone yourself with AI, pair a photo of your face with a clone of your voice. On Sume: clone the voice, speak with TTS 1.0, lip sync with Fabric.
Sume's Avatar 1.0 talking video speaks English only today. For Spanish, Hindi, or Korean, make the speech with TTS 1.0, then lip sync it.
Sume can't re-sync lips in existing footage. To dub an avatar video, translate the script, speak it with TTS 1.0, and lip sync the face with Fabric.
Avatar 1.0 talking videos have no emotion or speed setting. Set emotion, speed, and volume on TTS 1.0 speech, then lip sync the avatar with Fabric.
Avatar 1.0 videos have no gesture setting. To pick hand gestures or dance moves, drive the avatar with a clip of up to 30 seconds via motion control.
An AI avatar script is the words the avatar speaks. Sume's estimator today counts 2.8 words per second, so 60 seconds holds roughly 165 words.
A UGC ad script is a hook, the product in use, and a call to action. For a Sume avatar, write each beat as a scene in a video of up to 60 seconds.

Keep background music well under the voice. A Sume avatar video preview can carry a soundtrack at volume 0.05 to 0.4; Timeline adds fades and ducking.

A talking head video's format follows where it plays: vertical, 16:9, square, or 4:5. Sume avatar videos come in five ratios as MP4 at 720p.

Sume's Face Swap (Beta) takes a ready avatar, not a photo. Turn the photo into an avatar first, then swap it onto a 4–15 second public video.

Real estate agents can make AI videos without filming: create an avatar from a photo once, then script each video with a listing photo as the scene.
How to choose an API for AI avatar talking-head videos from a script: HeyGen, Synthesia, Argil, Creatify and Sume compared on price unit, engines and limits.
One Sume avatar video job covers an estimated 4-60 seconds. Split the script, render each part, and join the parts with Timeline 1.0 for a longer video.
Keep an Avatar 1.0 clip's voice as one Timeline spine, cut away to B-roll slots, and cut back with source_in equal to start so the lips stay on the words.
A Sume avatar video job resolves one avatar, so a two-person dialogue is one job per turn, cut together in speaking order with Timeline 1.0.
Add product_image and a scene prompt or photo to a Sume Avatar 1.0 talking video, then check the first frame in a preview before the full render.
Search Sume's avatar catalog with POST /v1/avatar-catalog/search, pick a ready public avatar, and pass its handle to a talking video without creating one.
Send POST /v1/avatar-1.0/generate with an avatar_handle and a prompt, profile, or image input. Poll the job, then reuse the handle for avatar videos.
POST /v1/avatar-1.0/talking-video turns a ready avatar and a 4-60 second script into a talking video. Options, captions, polling, and per-second rates.
Send ordered video_inputs instead of one script to compose spoken and silent scenes into one 4-60 second avatar video. Scene fields, rules, and limits.
Create an avatar video preview to get first-frame stills, regenerate them if needed, then call generate-video on the preview id to render the final video.
Avatar Face Swap 1.0 is a Beta Sume endpoint that applies a ready avatar's face to a short public source video. Required fields, limits, and polling.
Sume Avatar 1.0 is a multi-agent orchestration system as a single avatar model.