{"id":183849,"date":"2024-02-28T01:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T07:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ai-video-wars-heat-up-as-pika-adds-lip-sync-powered-by-elevenlabs"},"modified":"2024-02-28T01:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T07:22:55","slug":"ai-video-wars-heat-up-as-pika-adds-lip-sync-powered-by-elevenlabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ai-video-wars-heat-up-as-pika-adds-lip-sync-powered-by-elevenlabs","title":{"rendered":"AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/47mB_UymAIc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Pika\u2019s AI generated videos remain arguably lower quality and less \u201crealistic\u201d than the ones shown off by OpenAI\u2019s Sora or even another rival AI video generation startup, Runway, the addition of the new Lip Sync feature puts it ahead of both in offering capabilities disruptive to traditional filmmaking software.<\/p>\n<p>With Lip Sync, Pika is addressing one of the last remaining barriers to AI being useful for creating longer narrative films. Most other leading AI video generators don\u2019t yet currently offer a similar feature natively.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, in order to add spoken dialog and matching lip movements to characters inside the AI video, users have had to make do with third party tools and <a href=\"https:\/\/polymorf.me\/posts\/lipsync-runwayml-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cumbersome additions in post production<\/a>, which give the resulting video of a \u201clow budget,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/47mB_UymAIc?si=n-frkZwsD8dRz4kC\"><em>Monty Python<\/em>-esque<\/a> quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Pika\u2019s AI generated videos remain arguably lower quality and less \u201crealistic\u201d than the ones shown off by OpenAI\u2019s Sora or even another rival AI video generation startup, Runway, the addition of the new Lip Sync feature puts it ahead of both in offering capabilities disruptive to traditional filmmaking software. With Lip Sync, Pika is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}