TalkPix API
Turn a photo and a script into a talking video via API
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New since our July launch: the TalkPix Developer API. The same lip-sync pipeline behind the web app is now a REST API. POST one portrait plus a script (30 voices, 10 languages) or your own audio, then poll the job or get a signed webhook when the MP4 is ready. POST /estimate shows the credit cost for free. You pay per rendered second from prepaid credits, no subscription, with automatic refunds if a render fails. Examples in curl, Node and Python, plus an npm client.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: ai short-form video generators · 265 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▼ -14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- API
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial The REST API, job queue, webhooks, and credit billing are standard and vibe-codeable. The output quality depends on a lip-sync model pipeline that needs GPU infrastructure and ML expertise, or a paid model provider.
What it would actually take: The API layer is conventional: a job queue, storage for portraits and audio, webhook delivery, and a credit ledger. The hard part is the lip-sync model itself, which requires either licensing or self-hosting a talking-head model such as one of the open audio-driven face animation models, running it on GPUs, and tuning it for quality and speed. Doing this well takes ML engineering and inference-optimization skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 340 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #128 of 341 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
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- SynVoice.io · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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- vocalove · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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