Model · Talking presenters, Video
Wav2Lip
An older, free research model that makes the lips in any video match a new audio track. Widely copied and easy to try, but the results are low resolution and the licence allows only personal, research and non-commercial use.
At a glance
- Open or closed
- Downloadable, with conditionsYou can download and run it, but the licence limits useCode and weights downloadable, but only for personal, research and non-commercial use.source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
- Licence
- Wav2Lip repository terms (personal/research/non-commercial) (Non-commercial only)source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
- Can I sell what I make?
- NoREADME: commercial use strictly prohibited because the models were trained on the LRS2 dataset; contact the authors for commercial requests.source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
- Cost
- Free option: Free to download and run yourself for non-commercial usePlans below.
- How you use it
- On your own computerPython 3.6 and ffmpeg; Docker image and Google Colab notebooks linked.source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
- Skill needed
- TechnicalOur judgement: old Python version, manual weight downloads.source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
- Made by
- IIIT Hyderabad researchers (CVIT)Repo lists individual authors and links project pages on iiit.ac.in domains; institution not named in text. No country recorded.source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
- Status
- AvailableStill downloadable; not marked deprecated. Repo points commercial users to the authors' later company, Sync (sync.so), whose models it calls considerably better.source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
What you can make with it
- A video, lips that match new audio (main use)
video to videoaudio to video
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Plans and prices
No paid plans listed.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Rights and safety
- Real faces and voices
- Copies a real face (lip-sync any video), no consent stepWorks on any face in a video; no consent step in self-run software.source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
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About this entry
Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.