Everyone’s in the band.
Start with your selected cast in a lived-in office, with only the instruments their roles need.
A small desk. A very big entrance.
Tiny Desk AI Video Generator
Turn your photos into a Tiny Desk AI performance: take the lead, bring a friend, or cast up to five people. Only your selected people appear.
- 1–5 performers
- 15-second videos
- Portrait or landscape
Original AI performance and music. Not the NPR footage or original “Outstanding” recording.
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Create Your Tiny Desk AI Video
Choose your cast, frame and occasion.
3Video settings
Model, quality & formatCollapseStandard720p15-second performance9:16
Vocal language
Korean is available with Flagship.
Composition guide
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Tiny Desk AI video examples
Watch three Tiny Desk AI performances generated with our website. Choose solo, duet or a five-person cast, and turn on sound to hear the original music.
What Your Tiny Desk AI Video Includes
A Tiny Desk AI cast makes it personal. The reaction and the solo make it worth sending.
A familiar face in the spotlight.
Move closer as the lead finishes a short original phrase with a relaxed expression.
Give your friend the solo.
If you cast a sax player, give them a solo; otherwise feature a selected keyboard player or the lead’s reaction. Return to the same cast for the ending.
What Is the Tiny Desk AI Trend?
The trend recasts performers in a desk-concert video with unexpected faces: coaches, friends or the people from a group chat. The familiar setting, expressive lead and surprise sax solo make the joke recognizable.
An original band, built around your cast.
AIRAPVIDEO Tiny Desk AI creates an original office setting, only your selected performers and original soul audio. Your portraits identify who should perform each role; they do not supply a singing voice.
How to Make a Tiny Desk AI Video
Build your Tiny Desk AI cast first, then review the complete idea. Choose the people who will appear, select a frame and check the final credit cost before creating.
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Upload the lead, then add your people.
Choose one clear portrait for the lead singer. Use Me + a friend for two people, selecting sax or keys for the second performer. Group · 3–5 reveals all five role positions. Unfilled roles are omitted.
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Check every role and the audio.
Review who sings, who plays and which selected performers occupy each role. Choose an occasion or write your own. Confirm video settings and the final credit cost before submitting. The composition illustration is not a result guarantee.
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Review the entire result before sharing.
When your video is ready, check faces through every cut, hands on instruments and audio timing. Use photos you have permission to use, and identify the finished clip as AI-generated when posting.
Choose Your Tiny Desk AI Cast
Your Tiny Desk AI band can start with one person. Add two, three, four or five portraits without filling seats you do not want to cast.
- Lead singer Required
The main vocal and expressive close-up. Give this part to the person whose performance makes the idea work.
- Sax player Optional
The solo close-up. In the two-person setup, this is your friend’s moment in the spotlight.
- Keys player Optional
The front row at the keyboard, anchoring the wider band scenes. Use a separate portrait for this position.
- Left backing singer Optional
The left position in the back row. This performer adds another familiar face to the ensemble scenes.
- Right backing singer Optional
The other backing-vocal position. Complete the five-person group, or leave this seat unoccupied.
Which Photos Work for Tiny Desk AI?
Start with a recent, sharp head-and-shoulders portrait, facing the camera in even light. Keep the eyes and face visible. Use one person per photo so each role has an unambiguous reference.
Leave out anything that hides the face.
Avoid sunglasses, masks, heavy beauty filters, motion blur and faces far from the camera. A crowded group photo is not a substitute for five individual role portraits; crop a separate, clear image for each person.
Check more than the first frame.
A recognizable opening does not prove the whole video works. In a finished render, watch the lead close-up, any instrumental response and the return to the cast for identity changes or distorted hands. Only use adult portraits of yourself or people who agreed to appear.
Plan a Tiny Desk AI Performance
Choose the people and the occasion before choosing every seat. A clear idea makes the cast easier to understand.
Start with a one-person spotlight.
A solo Tiny Desk AI idea works when one familiar expression carries the joke. Pick the friend who sings every chorus, the colleague celebrating a promotion, or yourself after a long week. Only that person appears. The accompaniment stays off screen; there are no additional musicians or background people.
Give two friends different moments.
A two-person setup gives the lead a reaction and the second person a sax or keyboard moment. Choose roles that fit your friends, then use the side-by-side uploads to check both portraits.
Make the whole group recognizable.
A five-person Tiny Desk AI concept suits a group chat, an office team or a fantasy-league crew. Decide the lead first, then assign the instrumental and backing roles. Match each portrait to its label so the review describes the exact lineup you intended.
Tiny Desk AI Questions
What to know before you create.
Solo uses exactly one person, duo exactly two, and group three to five. Upload one clear adult portrait per role. In duo mode, choose sax or keys for the second person. Empty roles are omitted; no fictional musicians are added.
No. The video uses original AI music in a soul-performance setting. It does not use NPR footage, the original recording or an imitation of Charlie Wilson’s voice.
Choose 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts, or 16:9 for regular YouTube videos. The ratio is sent to the model with corresponding composition instructions, rather than cropping a completed group clip.
The workspace calculates credits from the selected model, resolution and fixed 15-second duration. The final cost appears in the review before creating. Purchase options are on the pricing page.
The selected photos are uploaded for processing when you create. They are checked and passed to the generation provider to produce your video. Your task and result are available in your private account history. See the privacy policy for storage and deletion details.
Use your existing task or account history to check progress when you return. Failed generation follows the site’s credit-settlement rules. A finished result that differs from expectations is not the same as a failed task; AI results vary.
No. AIRAPVIDEO is an independent AI tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NPR, Tiny Desk Concerts, Charlie Wilson or The Gap Band.
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