StillTalk
A photo that talks back. Live on your device, not video.
26 followers
A photo that talks back. Live on your device, not video.
26 followers
StillTalk turns one generated photo into a character that talks. Your device draws every frame live in the browser; the server sends only speech and compact movement data. Five characters, six languages, or type your own sentence. No signup. Engine built with GPT-6 Astra.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Piotr, founder of StillTalk.
StillTalk turns one generated photo into a character that talks, and it is not video. Your device draws every frame live in the browser. The server sends only speech and compact movement data: no video stream, no cloud renderer billing by the minute.
Try it now, no signup: pick one of five characters, one of six languages, play a tongue twister, or type your own sentence and hear it spoken.
The Astra story: GPT-6 Astra designed and implemented the rendering engine, the articulation, the calibration and the tests. My job was to set the quality bar and keep saying "not yet": a blink sitting too high, a mouth shape that worked in Polish but not in French. We found this challenge on Saturday, September 12. The engine worked with one character. Over the next day Astra built four more, and two of them needed very few corrections from me, because every earlier fix had already become an automated check.
For scale: 1.8B+ tokens in the StillTalk thread alone, and 817M on our busiest single day. That includes reused context. It measures the work, not a bill.
Honest limits: live typing runs on a free speech pool with per-person limits. If it runs out, every prepared line still plays.
Next: a commercial API, a wider character library, and a beta for creating a character from your own photo.
This is the result of one very intense sprint. I'm happy with where it is, and I'm still calibrating every day, so it will only get better from here.
I'd love your feedback: which character feels most alive, and where does the lip-sync break in your language? I'm here all day.
Thank you to everyone who watched, listened, voted and asked questions yesterday. For a first launch with no audience behind it, this was a great day, and your questions told me exactly what people want from StillTalk.
Here is what I'm working on:
More alive. Lip-sync tuned per character, subtler face movement while speaking, head turns and glances to the side and up, then a livelier body: gestures, a wave, changes of pose.
Open to builders. A studio where you set the parameters yourself, and an API.
More to choose from. More voices, more languages, more characters.
Your own character, created from a photo or a prompt.
And one from your comments: export to video. @kyle_bennett6 and @charlotte_reed1 both saw StillTalk as a way to make short character clips. It stays a live engine first, but saving a performance as a video is a natural side feature (it's how the launch film was made), so it's on the list. Thank you both.
No dates yet. I'd rather ship each step working than ship it fast. The bigger milestones will come back to Product Hunt as new launches.
Until then the demo stays open: pick a character on stilltalk.ai, type your own line, and leave your email if you want to hear when the next step lands.
Comments and suggestions are always welcome, here or through the contact page on stilltalk.ai.
Honestly, the talking photo thing is kinda cool. I wonder how natural it looks with different photos.
@ayesha_mughal1 Thanks, Ayesha! Very natural, and across very different faces: five characters so far, from photoreal people to a cartoon creature, four of them built in about a day. Your own photo is next, and so is richer full-body motion: a wave hello is almost ready. Drop your email on stilltalk.ai and you'll see for yourself soon.