Tiny Desk AI Video Generator

Tiny Desk AI is a photo-to-video generator that puts your face into a tiny desk concert clip. You upload one photo for the lead singer and up to four more for the other seats, the prepared clip supplies the room, the instruments, the camera work and the audio, and you get a 15-second vertical video back.

A Tiny Desk concert is NPR's video series in which artists play a short set at a small desk in a cramped NPR office corner, backed by the house band and surrounded by posters and records. The format started in 2008 and became a weekly video franchise with NPR Music in 2014.

One. Only the lead singer is required. You can add up to four more — Front desk, Back left, Back right and Sax — one photo per seat, if you want to change who is playing them.

You get a valid clip with you as the lead singer. The seats you leave empty keep the performers who are already in the prepared video, so nothing is invented and nobody is replaced without you asking.

No. Tiny Desk AI is an independent fan-made parody. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by NPR, and NPR does not make or review the clips it produces. Every clip is AI-generated.

The clip carries the audio of the prepared scene it was generated from, and that audio comes as part of the download. It is not a separate music licence — if you post the clip publicly, keep the credit the original post carried.

15 seconds, cut for TikTok, Reels and Shorts at 9:16. The length follows the prepared performance, so the framing and the timing stay on the beat.

One clear photo of one adult, facing the camera, face sharp and reasonably large in frame, with a plain background behind them. The face is the part that has to survive 15 seconds of movement — a small or blurred face gets reinvented by the model and the reinvention drifts.

Yes. Under any seat's photo you can write what that person should wear or look like — a band jacket, a hat, a different hairstyle. That instruction applies to that seat alone and never lands on anyone else in the frame.

$9.99 for one video, paid once. There is no subscription and no credit pack that expires, so every extra clip is another single $9.99 payment.

No editing software is needed. The room, the instruments, the performance, the camera angle and the timing are already in the clip. You upload your photos and download a finished vertical video ready to post.

Yes, you should. TikTok requires realistic-looking synthetic content of people to be labelled, and the label does not reduce reach — videos carrying it routinely outperform unlabelled ones.

The tiny desk format is NPR's Tiny Desk Concert: an artist performs a short set at a small desk in a cramped corner of the NPR offices, backed by the house band, with posters and records on the walls behind them. The format started in 2008 and became a video franchise with NPR Music in 2014.

Because the room, the instruments, the performers' bodies, the camera moves and the timing all come from an already-shot performance clip. Your photo is used as the face reference for one seat, so the model re-performs the scene against your face instead of inventing a new scene around it.

Lead singer, Front desk, Back left, Back right and Sax. The lead singer is the only required seat. Each of the other four takes one photo, and any seat you leave empty keeps the performer who is already in the prepared clip.

Yes. One photo for the lead singer is enough, and the other four seats keep the performers from the prepared clip. That is how most people make it — the clip reads as a full band either way.

Upload one clear photo of the lead singer, add photos for any other seats you want to change, pay the single fee and wait about five to eight minutes. The result is a 15-second vertical 9:16 video at 768P, ready to download.

One adult, facing the camera, face sharp and clearly lit, with a plain background. The face has to hold for 15 seconds of movement, so a small or blurred face gets reinvented by the model and the reinvention drifts from frame to frame.

The clip runs 15 seconds, which is the length of the prepared performance. Longer edits of the format exist, but every extra clip on this site is a separate payment.

No. One clip is $9.99, paid once. There is no free tier, no subscription and no credit pack that expires.

Yes, as long as that person agreed to it. Use a photo of yourself, or of someone who has agreed to have their likeness used — and if the person is under 18, their parent or legal guardian has to have authorised it.

Download the 9:16 file and post it vertically. Turn on TikTok's AI-generated content label before you post, and label it as a trend-inspired clip rather than an NPR production — the label costs you nothing in reach and keeps you on the right side of the rules.