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We have not released the weights, but it is fully available to use in your websites or applications. I can see how our wording there could be misconstrued -- sorry about that.

So glad you enjoyed it! We've been able to significantly reduce those text hallucinations with a few tricks, but it seems they haven't been fully squashed. The /imagine command onl…

Not something we had thought to do tbh, but would definitely enhance the experience. And, should be reasonable to do. Thanks!

We have not released the weights, but it is fully available to use in your websites or applications. I can see how our wording there could be misconstrued -- sorry about that. You …

Haha, I kind of get that reaction. Convincing the world "this was hard to do" is generally not easy. Re: user uploads, we're operating in good faith at the moment (no built-in IP m…

Thank you! Impressive demo with OVA. Still feels very snappy, even fully local. It will be interesting to see how video plays out in that regard. I think we're still at least a yea…

I wonder how it would come across with the right voice. We're focused on building out the video layer tech, but at the end of the day, the voice is also pretty important for a posi…

Thanks for the feedback. The current avatars use a STT-LLM-TTS pipeline (rather than true speech-to-speech), which limits nuanced understanding of pronunciations. Speech-to-speech …

This isn't natively supported -- we are continuously streaming frames throughout the conversation session that are generated in real-time. If you were building your own conversatio…

Thanks! And sorry! I can see how our wording there could be misconstrued. With a real-time model, the streaming infrastructure matters almost as much as the weights themselves. It …

Yep, the model is running on Hopper architecture. Anything less was not sufficient in our experiments.

Thanks for trying it out! character.ai has put their model behind a waitlist, so it's hard to compare. As far as I can tell, they don't appear to make any specific claims about spe…

thanks for trying us out!

Just added a signup at the bottom of the technical report: https://lemonslice.com/live/technical-report

glad to bring a little joy into the world :)

It works with any style of character! Check out the embedded videos in our tech report. Peachy and the toilet are my favorite. https://lemonslice.com/live/technical-report

Thanks! We think we can cut down the latency to <2s which should make it feel even more natural.

Thanks! What kind of use case are you thinking about?

It's something we are considering. What use cases do you have in mind?

We've been very inspired by interactive character experiences powered by traditional VFX + puppetry (turtle talk with crush is a favorite). I think that sort of interactive enterta…

Thanks for the feedback. This is definitely a demo where every piece matters for maximizing the enjoyment factor. We spent the most effort on optimizing video quality and latency, …

Not relying on facial keypoints means we can animate a wide range of non-humanoid characters. My favorite is talking to the Doge meme.

One way this differs is in the model architecture. Our approach relies on a single pass of a diffusion transformer (DiT), whereas Live Portrait relies on intermediate representatio…

I spent about 2 hours recording videos with different characters. Of course, the one I made as a joke for myself and never intended to share was the most enjoyable to watch :)

Just added as a public character :)