Library story hour: an 18-second avatar announcement, priced

A story-hour announcement is brief and repeats every week. At Sume's listed no-product rates, 18 seconds costs about $3.31 on Standard, $4.41 on Plus and $9.90 on Max. An avatar with a friendly look and a 9:16 frame fits a social post or a screen at the front desk.

The script and the call

Write about 18 seconds: the event, the day and time, the age range, and how to register. Say the room name once.

Create the avatar once, then call POST /v1/avatar-1.0/talking-video with its handle, the script, and aspect_ratio 9:16 for social or 16:9 for a lobby screen.

What it costs

At 18 seconds: Sume reserves on its planned billable seconds, which can differ a little from the length of your script, so these are estimates.

Look before you render

Make a clip per ratio only if you need both: each ratio is its own job and its own cost.

Label it

Tell viewers the presenter is AI-generated. Sume's disclosure record post lists the job fields worth saving per clip, and authored caption cues can burn a disclosure line into the video.