> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://captions.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Mirage API

> Production-grade talking-head video generation with best in class audio. Built for teams that need to scale their video creation.

## Overview

The **Mirage API** gives developers direct access to our foundation model for lifelike video generation. Turn scripts, images, and actors into hyperrealistic talking-head videos in your workflow or app. From idea to finished video, just an API call away.

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## Key Features

* **Flexible inputs** – Generate from script, image reference, or actor ID.
* **High-fidelity video output** – Natural eye contact, gestures, and emotional expression that feel real.
* **Realistic audio** - Speaking voices that match the content of what's being said and the look of the actor
* **Creative control** – Customize actors to fit your brand’s style, tone, and audience.
* **Developer-ready** – Credits-based billing, SDKs & quickstarts, sandbox and playground environments, and detailed documentation.

## How It Works

1. **Call the generate endpoint** – Send your request
2. **Poll the status endpoint** – Track your job status in real time
3. **Retrieve your video** – Download, with the option to reshoot or iterate

## What You Can Do

The Mirage API unlocks new possibilities for teams working with video:

* **Winning ad creative & hook testing** – Rapidly test variations, swap details, and identify what converts.
* **Learning & development** – Produce consistent, on-brand training and tutorial videos.
* **Marketing & ecommerce** – Generate product demos, explainers, and campaign assets at scale.
* **Creative tools** – Power video editors, platforms, and pro workflows with AI-driven video generation.
* **Virtual avatars & assistants** – Bring digital presenters to life, from spokespeople to brand mascots.

## Why Mirage

* **Ethically trained & data-first** – Our models are built on carefully licensed datasets, with attention to rights, safety, and brand control. Every training protocol, data collection, and dataset design is optimized for integrity.
* **Commercially available** – You retain full rights to the generated content, and there are no licensing restrictions on the AI-generated actors.
* **Research-driven foundation** – Our [research](https://mirage.app/research) spans real-world generative modeling, multimodal reasoning, dataset design and collection, audio-video quality evaluation, and large-scale training and inference.
* **Skip the blockers** – No shoots, no custom contracts, no usage ambiguity. Universal rights included.
* **Creative fluency & control** – You decide actor, style, tone, framing; you stay in the driver’s seat.
* **Built for scale** – From one-off clips to pipelines powering hundreds of videos a week, Mirage API grows with you.

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