Sonic AI

Overview

Sonic comes from researchers at Tencent AI Lab and Zhejiang University—groups known for Hunyuan and other avatar and animation work like RealTalk and VividTalk. These teams specialize in AI-driven video and facial animation tech.

Most tools stitch together faces with lots of visual help but Sonic flips that. It listens. It learns how you talk from your voice’s tone speed and rhythm and turns that into facial movement. It doesn’t lean on 3D motion data or cheat with overlapping clips. It borrows from the best video and audio toolkits to give you a full studio feel.

Here's how it works:

Context-Enhanced Audio Learning. It listens to big chunks of audio not just second-by-second clips so it knows the mood and pace.

Motion-Decoupled Controller. It splits face and head motion so one doesn’t mess up the other. Wanna nod a little while talking? No problem. You can even push expressions further if you want more drama.

Time-Aware Shift Fusion. Long video? No hiccups. It builds each clip while keeping a memory of what came before so everything flows. This works even for 10-minute long videos.

And it’s all one-click easy once it’s set up. No messing with keyframes or animation software.

In tests Sonic beat out other tools like SadTalker Hallo and Aniportrait in almost every metric. Better sync better emotion more natural movement. User studies showed people just liked it more especially for long clips.

Live demo on Replicate