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Tim Zinin
Tim Zinin

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AI Video Factory: Full Blueprint for AI Avatar Content at $0.09/min

I benchmarked 14 talking-head models, compared 4 Russian TTS engines, and calculated GPU costs across 5 platforms. Here's the full interactive infographic.

Key Numbers

  • $0.09 per minute of video
  • 3-4 vertical videos per day
  • $11/mo for a complete single-blogger pipeline
  • $40/mo for 5 bloggers in parallel

The Pipeline

5 steps from idea to publication:

  1. Script — Claude / GPT-4 (~10 sec)
  2. TTS → Audio — Silero v5 on CPU ($0)
  3. Talking Head — EchoMimic V3 (~$3/mo)
  4. B-roll — Wan 2.1 1.3B (~$2/mo)
  5. Assembly — FFmpeg on CPU ($0)

What's Inside the Infographic

  • Benchmark table of 9 talking-head models (from Wav2Lip to HeyGen)
  • 4 TTS engines compared for Russian voice quality
  • GPU platform comparison (RunPod, Vast.ai, SaladCloud, Modal)
  • 3 budget scenarios ($11 / $74 / $40)
  • Quality/Cost matrix of top-5 configurations
  • Launch roadmap

Building this for SBORKA, our career club. Need to scale content without scaling the team.

Full interactive infographic: AI Video Factory Blueprint

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