Layer Talking Characters

Overview

A talking clip is two assets that must agree: a voice and a face. Make the voice first. The line's length, pacing and emphasis then decide the clip, and the face is fitted to the audio rather than the audio squeezed into a clip that was cut too short. Most failed talking clips are a good face on a line that never fitted it.

Speech craft (scripts, pacing, invented names) is in layer-audio; animating a still is in layer-video; assembling shots with captions and an end card is layer-video-timeline. The loop and spend gate are in the layer skill.

If a sibling skill named here is missing from your available skills, ask the user to install it (npx skills add layerai/skills --skill <name>); unattended, proceed from tool schemas and flag the gap.

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