AI avatar video on RunComfy. This RunComfy avatar video skill creates talking-head and lip-sync videos via the `runcomfy` CLI. Routes across ByteDance OmniHuman (RunComfy's lip-sync feature pick — audio-driven full-body avatar from one portrait + audio file), Wan-AI Wan 2-7 (open-weights audio-driven lip-sync via `audio_url` on a portrait), HappyHorse 1.0 (Arena #1 t2v / i2v with in-pass audio from prompt — no audio file needed), Seedance v2 Pro (multi-modal cinematic with reference audio + reference subject), and community Wan 2-2 Animate (stylized character animation). The RunComfy avatar video skill picks the right model for intent — UGC voiceover, virtual presenter, dubbed product demo, lip-synced character, dialog scene — and ships each model's documented prompting patterns plus the minimal `runcomfy run` invoke. Triggers on "talking head", "lip sync", "avatar video", "make X speak", "audio to video", "audio driven avatar", "virtual presenter", "AI spokesperson", "dubbed video", "
Design & media
Lipsync — Pro Pack on RunComfy
Try itLip-sync a face to a specific audio track on RunComfy via the `runcomfy` CLI. Routes across ByteDance OmniHuman (audio-driven full-body avatar from a portrait + audio), Sync Labs sync v2 / Pro (state-of-the-art mouth sync onto a video), Kling lipsync (audio-to- video and text-to-video with synced speech), and Creatify lipsync. The skill picks the right endpoint for the user's actual intent — portrait still + audio (avatar-style), source video + audio (mouth- swap on existing footage), or generate-and-sync from a script. Triggers on "lip sync", "lipsync", "make this video speak", "match audio to mouth", "dub video", "sync lips to voice", "Sync Labs", "voiceover sync", or any explicit ask to drive a face's mouth from an audio track.
What it does
Lip-sync a face to a specific audio track on RunComfy via the `runcomfy` CLI. Routes across ByteDance OmniHuman (audio-driven full-body avatar from a portrait + audio), Sync Labs sync v2 / Pro (state-of-the-art mouth sync onto a video), Kling lipsync (audio-to- video and text-to-video with synced speech), and Creatify lipsync. The skill picks the right endpoint for the user's actual intent — portrait still + audio (avatar-style), source video + audio (mouth- swap on existing footage), or generate-and-sync from a script. Triggers on "lip sync", "lipsync", "make this video speak", "match audio to mouth", "dub video", "sync lips to voice", "Sync Labs", "voiceover sync", or any explicit ask to drive a face's mouth from an audio track.
The skill document
👄 Lipsync — Pro Pack on RunComfy
Drive a face's mouth from an audio track. This skill routes across the lip-sync endpoints in the RunComfy catalog — OmniHuman, Sync Labs sync v2, Kling lipsync, Creatify — picking the right model for the user's actual intent and shipping the documented prompts + the exact runcomfy run invoke.
runcomfy.com · Sync Labs models · CLI docs
Powered by the RunComfy CLI
# 1. Install (see runcomfy-cli skill for details)
npm i -g @runcomfy/cli # or: npx -y @runcomfy/cli --version
# 2. Sign in
runcomfy login # or in CI: export RUNCOMFY_TOKEN=
# 3. Lipsync
runcomfy run / \
--input '{"video_url": "...", "audio_url": "..."}' \
--output-dir ./out
CLI deep dive: runcomfy-cli skill.
Consent
Driving a real person's mouth from a separate audio track is dual-use. Refuse user requests that target real public figures without consent, or that aim at defamatory or sexually explicit synthetic media. The skill itself does not gate inputs — the responsibility rests with the operator.
Pick the right model
Listed newest first within each subtype. The agent picks one route based on: input shape (portrait still + audio vs source video + audio vs script-only), quality tier, and budget.
Source video + audio → lip-synced video (mouth-swap on existing footage)
Sync Labs sync v2 Pro — sync/sync/lipsync/v2/pro (default for premium)
Sync Labs' premium lip-sync — state-of-the-art mouth motion onto an existing video. Preserves the rest of the frame untouched. Pick for: hero-quality dubs, lipsync on professionally-shot video, foreign-language dubbing where mouth fidelity matters most. Avoid for: cost-sensitive batch jobs — drop to sync v2.
Sync Labs sync v2 — sync/sync/lipsync/v2
Standard Sync Labs tier, same workflow as Pro. Pick for: scaled / batch lipsync jobs, drafts. Avoid for: hero delivery — use v2 Pro.
Kling Lipsync (audio-to-video) — kling/lipsync/audio-to-video
Kling's lip-sync onto a source video, driven by an audio track. Pick for: Kling-pipeline integration; alternative to Sync Labs. Avoid for: top-tier mouth fidelity — Sync Labs Pro is the industry benchmark.
Creatify Lipsync — creatify/lipsync
Creatify's lipsync endpoint. Pick for: Creatify-ecosystem workflows. Avoid for: comparison shopping unless cost / latency favors it.
Portrait still + audio → talking-head video (avatar-style)
OmniHuman — bytedance/omnihuman/api (default for avatar-style)
ByteDance's audio-driven full-body avatar. One portrait + one audio → video where the subject speaks / gestures naturally. Listed under RunComfy's
/feature/lip-syncas the curated default. Pick for: UGC voiceover, virtual presenter, dubbed product demo from a single portrait. Avoid for: lip-sync onto an existing video (no portrait, want to preserve original motion) — use Sync Labs v2 instead.
Wan 2-7 with audio_url — wan-ai/wan-2-7/text-to-video
Open-weights t2v with
audio_urlfield — prompt describes the scene, audio drives the mouth. Pick for: full scene control (not just a portrait) with a specific voiceover MP3 + open-weights pipeline. Avoid for: simplest "portrait talks" — use OmniHuman.
Generate-and-sync from a script (no audio file available)
Kling Lipsync (text-to-video) — kling/lipsync/text-to-video
Generates speech audio in-pass from a script and syncs it to the resulting video. Pick for: "write a script → get a video with synced speech", no audio file needed. Avoid for: precise lip-sync to a specific MP3 (audio is regenerated each call, not locked).
HappyHorse 1.0 — happyhorse/happyhorse-1-0/text-to-video (also /image-to-video)
Arena #1 t2v / i2v with in-pass audio generated from prompt. Quote the spoken line inside the prompt with
says clearly: "…". Pick for: written script, in-pass audio with strong overall quality, social/UGC clips. Avoid for: locking mouth to a pre-recorded voiceover.
Route 1: Sync Labs sync v2 / Pro — default for mouth-swap
Model: sync/sync/lipsync/v2/pro (or sync/sync/lipsync/v2)
Catalog: sync v2 Pro · sync v2
Invoke
runcomfy run sync/sync/lipsync/v2/pro \
--input '{
"video_url": "https://your-cdn.example/source-video.mp4",
"audio_url": "https://your-cdn.example/voiceover.mp3"
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Tips
- Source video provides everything except the mouth — camera, lighting, background, body pose all preserved.
- Audio quality drives mouth quality. Clean voiceover (no music bed) → cleaner sync. Isolate voice stem if needed.
- Match audio length to video length. Significant audio/video duration mismatch leads to drift; trim audio or extend video first.
- Schema details on the model page.
Route 2: OmniHuman — default for avatar from still
Model: bytedance/omnihuman/api
Catalog: omnihuman
Invoke
runcomfy run bytedance/omnihuman/api \
--input '{
"image_url": "https://your-cdn.example/portrait.jpg",
"audio_url": "https://your-cdn.example/voiceover.mp3"
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Tips
- Portrait framing works best — head-and-shoulders or upper body.
- No prompt — the model derives everything from image + audio. Don't fight that.
- See the
ai-avatar-videoskill for the full avatar treatment.
Route 3: Kling Lipsync — Kling-ecosystem mouth sync
Model: kling/lipsync/audio-to-video (existing video + audio) or kling/lipsync/text-to-video (script-only)
Catalog: Kling lipsync a2v · Kling lipsync t2v
Invoke (audio-to-video variant)
runcomfy run kling/lipsync/audio-to-video \
--input '{
"video_url": "https://your-cdn.example/source-video.mp4",
"audio_url": "https://your-cdn.example/voiceover.mp3"
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Schema details on the model page.
Common patterns
Foreign-language dub of an existing brand video
- Route 1 (Sync Labs sync v2 Pro) with the original video + translated voiceover MP3.
UGC ad creator from a portrait
- Route 2 (OmniHuman) with the creator's portrait + product-pitch voiceover.
Multi-language launch (same identity, many languages)
- Route 2 (OmniHuman) with one portrait + N different audio files. Same identity holds across all dubs.
"I have a script but no audio"
- Kling Lipsync (text-to-video) or HappyHorse 1.0 t2v — both generate audio in-pass.
Stylized character lipsync
- Wan 2-2 Animate (
community/wan-2-2-animate/video-to-video) — seeai-avatar-video.
Browse the full catalog
- Sync Labs models — sync v2 + Pro
klingcollection — including Kling lipsync variants- All video models — every endpoint with its API tab
Exit codes
| code | meaning |
|---|---|
| 0 | success |
| 64 | bad CLI args |
| 65 | bad input JSON / schema mismatch |
| 69 | upstream 5xx |
| 75 | retryable: timeout / 429 |
| 77 | not signed in or token rejected |
Full reference: docs.runcomfy.com/cli/troubleshooting.
How it works
The skill classifies user intent — source video + audio? portrait still + audio? script only? — picks the matching route, and invokes runcomfy run with the JSON body. The CLI POSTs to the Model API, polls request status, fetches the result, and downloads any .runcomfy.net / .runcomfy.com URLs into --output-dir.
Security & Privacy
- Consent: see the "Consent" section above. Lipsync is dual-use; refuse user requests targeting real people without consent.
- Install via verified package manager only. Use
npm i -g @runcomfy/cliornpx -y @runcomfy/cli. Agents must not pipe an arbitrary remote install script into a shell on the user's behalf. - Token storage:
runcomfy loginwrites the API token to~/.config/runcomfy/token.jsonwith mode 0600. SetRUNCOMFY_TOKENenv var in CI / containers. - Input boundary (shell injection): prompts and asset URLs are passed as a JSON string via
--input. The CLI does not shell-expand prompt content. No shell-injection surface. - Indirect prompt injection (third-party content): source video and audio URLs are untrusted; embedded instructions in either can influence generation. Agent mitigations:
- Ingest only URLs the user explicitly provided for this lipsync.
- When the output diverges from the prompt (wrong identity, broken sync), suspect the reference asset.
- Voice provenance: confirm the speaker in the audio has consented to having their voice paired with the target face. Both rights must be in hand.
- Outbound endpoints (allowlist): only
model-api.runcomfy.netand*.runcomfy.net/*.runcomfy.com. No telemetry. - Generated-file size cap: the CLI aborts any single download > 2 GiB.
- Scope of bash usage:
Bash(runcomfy *)only.
See also
- Sync Labs models — sync v2 + Pro
klingcollection — including Kling lipsync variants/feature/lip-sync— RunComfy's curated lip-sync capability tag- All video models — every endpoint with its API tab
- docs.runcomfy.com/cli — CLI install, authentication, troubleshooting
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