# Meta — Bringing Your Muse to Life

- Company: Meta (meta.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-23
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://research.meta.ai/blog/bringing-your-muse-to-life
- Record: https://forck.live/items/13473-bringing-your-muse-to-life
- Subject: Muse
- Models affected: Muse Realtime Avatar, Muse Realtime Voice

Today, we’re introducing Muse Realtime Avatar, our state-of-the-art embodiment technology that turns Muse Realtime Voice into expressive, interactive avatars. Conditioned on reference media, Muse Realtime Avatar brings any character into a live conversation. A photographic portrait responds through subtle expressions, while a full-body illustration gestures and shifts posture as it speaks. Animals and everyday objects become expressive without losing what makes them distinctive. Frame by frame, the avatar’s appearance and mannerisms remain coherent from one conversational turn to the next. Beyond talking heads, Muse Realtime Avatar brings any image to life in real time, with expressive facial, hand, and full-body movement. From Intelligence to Real-Time Presence Muse Realtime Voice and Muse Realtime Avatar form a single streaming system connecting intelligence, voice, and embodiment. Muse Realtime Voice provides the conversational intelligence and produces a stream of speech tokens (VQs) carrying both what is said and how it’s delivered. …

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