Hallo vs Sync Labs

Hallo generates an animated portrait video from a still image and driving speech audio. Its hierarchical audio-driven synthesis is designed to align lip, facial-expression, and pose movement with the audio, while separate inference weights let you adjust those three motion areas. The source image should be square, show a forward-facing face occupying 50%–70% of the frame, and have less than 30 degrees of rotation. Driving audio must be a clear-vocal English WAV file; background music is allowed. Inference saves an MP4 to `.cache/output.mp4` by default, with another output path available. Listed requirements are Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 and CUDA 12.1, with an A100 named as the tested GPU. Pretrained checkpoints and supporting models are available through Hugging Face. The project lists Linux, Windows, and self-hosted platforms, with community resources for Windows, ComfyUI, a WebUI, Docker, and RunPod. Its repository includes preprocessing and training code for multi-node and multi-GPU work. Hallo is free, open source under MIT, and its training data is English, so driving audio is limited to English.

Sync Labs provides an AI lip-sync API that generates mouth movements matched to video and audio. Its listed models include lipsync-1.9, lipsync-2, lipsync-2-pro, react-1, and sync-3. The introduction lists 512×512 face resolution for lipsync-2 and lipsync-2-pro, and native 4K for sync-3. The models use audio waveforms rather than text and support 29 spoken languages, including tonal languages such as Mandarin and Thai. Use cases include dubbing, localization, personalized video messaging, e-learning, marketing, entertainment, media, and gaming. Developers can use a REST API and official Python and TypeScript SDKs; documented integrations include Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, ChatGPT, an MCP server, ComfyUI, and ElevenLabs. Inputs include MP4 video and WAV or MP3 audio, provided by public URL, API upload, or media-library asset ID. The free plan provides 3 generations per month, each up to 20 seconds, and no credit card is required. Hobbyist costs $5 a month plus $0.05/sec; paid plans also list usage charges. The service is available via API and web.