Human-like AI avatars you can talk to instantly. Avatars that responds faster then you blink with natural speech and active listening. They smile, emote, and react like real people. Perfect for customer support, training, and interactive AI experiences that feel truly alive.
Yolk
Yolk
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 Sergei here, founder of Avaturn
Three years ago, we launched our first avatar solution, Avaturn me we were humbled to be used by 20,000+ developers, including teams at Disney and Nike, came on board.
Then, AI changed the world. And we knew we had to do it all over again.
For the past two years our entire research team went into "submarine mode", disconnected from everything, chasing a single breakthrough.
Here's the breakthrough:
We saw the core problem killing engagement: models were too slow and expensive. The entire market settled for a "solution": playing pre-recorded animations with lipsync. Users hate this. You can spot a fake, looped smile from a mile away.
So we fixed the core problem. We built a model that is:
⚡ 9X Faster: So fast, it generates new reactions on the fly and adjusts its emotions faster than you blink.
🎧 Truly Reactive: This speed unlocks true active listening. It’s not playback. It’s an AI that listens and reacts with 4X the expressive range.
🧩 15-Minute Integration: We packaged this breakthrough so you can integrate it into your product in under 15 minutes.
Remember clumsy speech agents two years ago? Robotic, unusable... until, suddenly, they worked.
We believe today marks that exact same tipping point for real-time avatars.
Our $100M competitors just launched their best . We invite you to test them side-by-side.
You'll see the fundamental difference in approaches in 60 seconds: Playback vs. True Active Listening.
In fact, We're so confident that once you experience real interaction, you can't go back to robotic loops.
That's why we're giving 10 hours of free API time to every developer who signs up this week.
@sergei_sherman How does the model handle unexpected speech or interruptions in real time?
Avaturn: Real 3D Avatars from Photo
@sergei_sherman @masump Just like a human, it stops, listen, shows emotions to what you say while you speak, then respond. There is no “stop, play” it is like continuous dialogue between humans. Try it on our website for free!;)
Saywise
@sergei_sherman Great product, upvoted! (also reached out on LinkedIn with a note, would be great to connect!)
Yolk
@sergei_sherman @cksaywise thanks!
@sergei_sherman Wow, Avaturn Live is truly mind-blowing! The “faster than a blink” response and those natural emotes—like, they actually smile and react like real folks—are what hooked me instantly. For my small business, I’ve been wanting to revamp our demo experience, and having an avatar that can laugh, listen, and engage during product walkthroughs? That’d be a total game-changer for how we connect with prospects. Quick ask: What was the biggest hurdle in getting the avatars to feel so… well, human?
Yolk
@sergei_sherman @movieflow_nann Yes, that's one of the use cases for our avatars! I think one of the biggest challenges is to figure out what makes us feel that we are talking to a real human being: we are blinking (not too often, not too rarely), we are reacting to people we are talking to; we are mimicking their emotions. We have all these facial muscles moving when we are talking, not just the mouth. There are so many nuances you have to take into account!
Yolk
I'm Kate, co-founder of Avaturn. I must say I'm very proud of our team: our avatars on avaturn.live are super human-like! The feature I'm most excited about is active listening: avatars are smiling, nodding and reacting to what you are saying in real-time. Hope you try the product and really like it. Don't hesitate to ask any questions, we will be happy to answer!
Really excited about this one! Realtime avatars is a long standing computer vision problem, avaturn seems to be a rare case when it actually works!
Avaturn: Real 3D Avatars from Photo
@belkakari Thanks Gleb, we very excited to get this feedback from expert like yourself!
Swytchcode
Awesome! Congrats on the launch!
Yolk
@chilarai thank you!
Station
Yolk
@campritchard Thanks!
Triforce Todos
I’ve been waiting for something like this! Every avatar I tried before felt robotic… this actually feels alive. Amazing job, team.
Yolk
@abod_rehman Thank you so much!
Extrovert
this is dope (is it actually me commenting or my avatar?? sheeesh I dunno at this point)
Yolk
@oleg_sobolev ahaha, thanks!