Aug 27, 2026Building an AI Avatar Video Pipeline with HeyGen and ElevenLabs
This article walks through a Node.js REST API that turns a static character image into a realistic AI avatar video using HeyGen, generates custom speech with ElevenLabs, and automatically publishes the resulting video as an Instagram Reel.
The key idea is to combine avatar generation, voice synthesis, media processing, and social media publishing into a single API-driven pipeline.
- node.js
- express
- ai video generation
- heygen
- elevenlabs
- text-to-speech
- voice cloning
- instagram api
- ffmpeg