Chalkboard

What it does

Chalkboard turns a prompt like “explain how the universe is aging” into a narrated, hand-drawn explainer video with diagrams, real AI imagery, subtitles, and music, exported as an MP4. Bring any provider, or run it fully local with Ollama + Piper for $0 per video. MIT-licensed.

Open-source whiteboard-style explainer videos. Prompt → mp4. Self-host, MIT, free with local providers. - Atharva-Kanherkar/chalkboard

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