Introduction
Audio-driven human animation extends open video generation into digital-human performance.
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Source · GitHub - Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo-Avatar · GitHub ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Audio is used to drive human imagery.
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-02
Release and use
HunyuanVideo-Avatar enters the project record in May 2025 as a dedicated audio-driven human-animation task. Unlike generating arbitrary scenes from text, it focuses on relations among sound, bodily motion and appearance. Project materials and code provide a route into examining that task definition.
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Change in creative practice
Appearance, performance and voice can be separated and recombined in digital production. The node therefore concerns dubbing, digital replicas and performance labour, not only video clarity. Evaluation requires attention to synchronisation, representation of identity and permission for the source material.
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Date displayed for this node: 2025-05-28 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2025-05-28
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HunyuanVideo-Avatar
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Provenance, translation & verification
Timeline entry #295 · Open model
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GenAI Visual Release Chronology Research Master · p. 31 · R168
Date as recorded: 2025-05-28
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