

Introducing Hummingbird-0: A Leap in Lip Sync
Today, we're releasing Hummingbird-0, a photorealistic, zero-shot lip sync model that emerged as a research artifact during the development of Phoenix-3, Tavus’ full-face rendering model.

The top 5 ways to use CVI right now
Explore five powerful use cases of conversational video AI—from customer support to sales and training. Learn how Tavus makes it easy to get started without coding or complexity.

What is conversational video AI?
Discover how conversational video AI enables lifelike, real-time interactions with digital avatars that see, hear, and respond like humans. The possibilities are endless.

The (Tavus) Hackathon Cookbook
So you want to build a Conversational Video Interface? You’re in good company, startups like Mercor and Delphi and fortune 500s alike are leveraging Tavus APIs to build the future of AI interaction.
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Building Real-Time AI Video Agents with LiveKit and Tavus (NEW)
Video agents are no longer just a “nice to have.” They’ve become one of the most natural and intuitive ways to interact with real-time AI agents. With Tavus video agents now integrated into LiveKit, you can add humanlike video responses to your voice agents in seconds.

Hummingbird-0: Advancing Zero-Shot Lip Synchronization in AI-Generated Video
We made an unexpected discovery while developing our premium conversational AI technology. Components of our advanced video pipeline could be isolated and explicitly optimized for lip synchronization, with remarkable results. This serendipitous research byproduct evolved into Hummingbird, a specialized zero-shot lip-sync model that achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to other leading solutions.

Sparrow-0: Advancing Conversational Responsiveness in Video Agents with Transformer-Based Turn-Taking
In this paper, we dive into the development and research behind Sparrow-0, exploring the innovative transformer-based approach for turn-taking and its integration alongside Raven and Phoenix models within our Conversational Video Interface (CVI), an end-to-end operating system designed for building responsive video agents.
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Introducing AI Santa: The Magic of Christmas, Powered by Tavus
What if Santa could talk to everyone all at once? Now He Can! We are thrilled to announce AI Santa by Tavus, the world’s first fully AI-powered replica of the man in the red suit.
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Bringing Conversational AI Video to Vapi with Tavus
Vapi Integrates Tavus to bring real-time conversational AI video to their platform.

11+ Best Text to Speech APIs [2024]
Unlock the power of speech with our top picks for the best Text-to-Speech APIs of 2024! Find the perfect voice solution for your app today.

Open-Sourcing AI Innovation: Building Real-Time AI Interactions with Pipecat and Tavus
Pipecat + Tavus empowers developers to build modular, real-time conversational AI systems with low latency, vendor neutrality, and support for 40+ LLMs, STT, and TTS services.

What is an AI Tool? How Artificial Intelligence Tools Work [2025 Guide]
Discover the power of AI tools and understand how they revolutionize tasks with our comprehensive 2025 guide to artificial intelligence tools.

What Makes Conversational AI Human Like?
The Tavus team leveraged multiple techniques to get life-like conversational interface with an AI. In particular, streaming, parallelism, resource management, and memory management. This combination helped reduce a long utterance to utterance time down to under a second.

Build a Custom Personality for Real Time Video AI
Customize your conversational AI's personality using a custom persona with system prompts, context, and your own LLM.

Build Your First Real Time Conversational Digital Twin in Five Minutes
A tutorial on how you can build a conversational AI in just a few minutes with details of what each of the parameters do.

15+ Best AI Sales Tools & Software [2025]
This guide reviews some of the best AI sales tools on the market, from AI video generators for sales outreach to AI-powered pipeline managers.

AI in Sales: How Artificial Intelligence Can Scale Your Sales Team Successes [2024]
Boost your sales with AI! Discover strategies to scale your team's success & outsmart the competition in 2024.

