Portrait
Talking Head
A person facing the camera and speaking — with their voice.
How this one runs
- Model
- veo-3.1-fast
- Mode
- Text to video
- You bring
- Just a sentence
What this effect is
This is the shot where a person looks into the lens and speaks, with the mouth movement matching the audio — the base format of everything from advertising to news. Veo 3.1 generates the speech and the lip-sync natively, so an Azerbaijani line needs no separate voice-over pass.
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