README.md

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title: Live Animated Avatar Companion
emoji: 🧚‍♀️
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.49.1
app_file: app.py
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Live Animated Avatar Companion (No-Install)

Upload a head+shoulders avatar image (PNG). Speak (mic) or type. The app:

• transcribes with Whisper (or faster_whisper)
• replies using a lightweight instruction model (Flan-T5 small)
• synthesizes voice with gTTS (young feminine tone)
• auto-generates a short talking video with mouth movement, blink & head tilt
• fully free and runs on CPU (Hugging Face Spaces)