Volcengine Digital Human Video Generator

⚠️ First-Time Setup Required

This skill requires Volcengine Access Key (AK) and Secret Key (SK).

Get AK/SK

1. Register Volcengine account: https://console.volcengine.com/
2. Enable "Digital Human Video Generation" service
3. Create Access Key: https://console.volcengine.com/iam/keymanage/

Configuration (choose one)

Option 1: Config file (recommended)

Create config.json (in the skill directory):

{
  "ak": "your_access_key_here",
  "sk": "your_secret_key_here"
}

Option 2: Environment variables

export VOLC_AK="your_access_key_here"
export VOLC_SK="your_secret_key_here"

⚠️ Security: Never hardcode AK/SK in scripts or commit to public repos!

⚠️ Privacy Notice

This skill uploads images and generated audio/video to third-party file hosts (catbox.moe, 0x0.st) to create publicly accessible URLs required by the Volcengine API.

• Do not use with sensitive/private images you don't want uploaded to public hosts
• User images and generated content will be publicly accessible during the video generation process
• Download and use videos promptly; URLs may expire

Core Flow

1. Get image: Fetch from /root/.openclaw/media/inbound/
2. Gender detection: OpenCV Haar cascade for eyes/nose features
3. Upload image: Upload to catbox.moe for public URL
4. Create avatar: Call realman_avatar_picture_create_role API
5. TTS audio: Auto-match voice by gender + edge-tts → upload to catbox.moe
6. Video synthesis: Call realman_avatar_picture_v2 API, poll for result
7. Download video: Save locally, generate thumbnail preview
8. Deliver: Send thumbnail + video via message tool

Quick Run

cd /root/.openclaw/workspace-employee-xiaozhua
python3 skills/volc-digital-human/scripts/volc_digital_human.py "$image_path" "$dialog_text" [gender]

Parameters:

• image_path: Image path, None=auto-fetch latest image
• dialog_text: Script/dialog content
• gender: Optional, male|female|None (auto-detect)

Voice Matching Rules

Manual override:

• Say "male"/"男生"/"男的" → force male voice
• Say "female"/"女生"/"女的" → force female voice
• Say "cartoon"/"卡通角色"/"动物" → use cartoon voice

Detailed API Reference

See references/volc_api.md

Key Parameters

Notes

• Image tips: Closed-mouth photos work better; WeChat thumbnails also work
• Gender detection: Heuristic based on Haar eye/nose features, not 100% accurate; confirm with user if needed
• Cartoon/animal: Use lively female voice zh-CN-XiaoyiNeural as default
• Video URL expiry: ~1 hour, download promptly
• Generation time: Usually 30 sec ~ 3 min
• Rate limit: Volcengine has request frequency limits; wait 1-5 min if 50430 error
• TTS: edge-tts (Microsoft free), no API key needed

Error Handling