AI AVATARS CAN NOW SPEAK FOR UP TO 5 MINUTES IN A SINGLE GENERATION OmniHuman 2.0 turns a character photo into a video with speech, facial expressions, gestures, and full-body movement. Upload an audio track, describe the camera movements and actions in text, and the model generates the performance. Here's what stands out: 5-minute videos: up from 60 seconds, without stitching separate clips together. Dialogue and music: support for more expressive content formats. Lower generation costs: reportedly down from $0.12 to $0.07 per second. At $0.07 per second, a five-minute video costs around $21. That opens up practical use cases for virtual presenters, advertising creatives, educational content, and branded characters that need to speak regularly. The bigger opportunity is content production at scale. Instead of filming a person every time you need a new video, you can build a repeatable workflow around a digital character, a script, and an audio track. The real test is whether the output stays consistent and natural across the full five minutes. https://t.co/PW8ib5olVc