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Connect HeyGen and OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) integrations

Explore ready-made HeyGen and OpenAI (ChatGPT, Whisper) templates and start automating in minutes.

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Create a custom workflow

Automate your creative workflow by connecting HeyGen's video generation with OpenAI's powerful suite—ChatGPT, DALL-E, Whisper, and Sora—through Make. When HeyGen completes a video or creates an avatar, instantly trigger AI-powered analysis, image generation, transcription, or content creation, eliminating manual tasks and accelerating your content pipeline.

Create a custom workflow

Every automation starts with a trigger and an action. Select one from each app to generate a workflow tailored to your needs.

HeyGen
Trigger: Watch events
OpenAI (ChatGPT, Whisper)
Action: Select an action
1. Select a trigger

  • Triggers when HeyGen sends one of the selected webhook events.

2. Select an action

  • Analyzes images according to specified instructions.

  • Cancels an "in-progress" batch. The batch will be in status "cancelling" for up to 10 minutes, before changing to "cancelled", where it will have partial results (if any) available in the output file.

  • Creates and executes a batch of API calls.

  • Creates a new skill.

  • Creates a new immutable skill version.

  • Creates a new vector store and optionally adds files to it, or adds files to an existing vector store.

  • Deletes an existing conversation.

  • Deletes an existing model response.

  • Deletes a skill. This action cannot be undone.

  • Deletes a skill version. This action cannot be undone.

  • Deletes a vector store. This action cannot be undone.

  • Downloads a file from a container.

  • Downloads a skill as a ZIP file using its ID.

  • Downloads a skill version as a ZIP file.

  • Creates an edited or extended image given one or more source images and a prompt.

  • Generates a chat completion.

  • Qualifies whether the provided image or text(s) contains violent, hateful, illicit or adult content.

  • Generates a response.

  • Transcribes an audio to text.

  • Translates an audio to English.

  • Creates an embedding vector representing the input text.

  • Generates images using GPT Image.

  • Generates an audio file based on text input and settings.

  • Retrieves details of the specified batch.

  • Retrieves an existing model response.

  • Returns information about a specific skill by its ID.

  • Returns information about a specific skill version.

  • Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

  • Generates text responses from prompts without requiring an account or connection.

  • Identifies information in a prompt's text and returns it as structured data.

  • Updates the default version pointer for a skill.

  • Uploads a file to be used across the OpenAI platform.

Select a trigger and an action

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Triggers and actions

Connect OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) as a trigger and HeyGen as an action through Make's automation platform. When OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) triggers an event, such as a completed video or new avatar creation, Make automatically initiates actions in HeyGen, enabling you to process video content through ChatGPT for analysis, generate complementary images with DALL-E, transcribe audio with Whisper, or create additional content with Sora. This trigger-action workflow allows you to automatically respond to OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) events by using OpenAI's language models, image generation, and audio transcription capabilities, optimizing your content pipeline without manual intervention.

Analyze images (Vision)
Analyzes images according to specified instructions.
Action
Cancel a batch
Cancels an "in-progress" batch. The batch will be in status "cancelling" for up to 10 minutes, before changing to "cancelled", where it will have partial results (if any) available in the output file.
Action
Create a batch
Creates and executes a batch of API calls.
Action
Create a skill
Creates a new skill.
Action
Create a skill version
Creates a new immutable skill version.
Action
Create a vector store or add files
Creates a new vector store and optionally adds files to it, or adds files to an existing vector store.
Action
Create a video
Creates a video from a HeyGen avatar, an animated image, or a cinematic-avatar prompt.
Action
Create a video agent session
Generates a video from a text prompt. The agent writes the script, picks the scenes and renders the video.
Action
Create a video translation
Translates a video into one or more languages with voice cloning and lip-sync.
Action
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How to set up HeyGen and OpenAI (ChatGPT, Whisper) in 5 easy steps

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Get your HeyGen API token

Sign into your HeyGen account and navigate to your settings by clicking your profile name in the upper left corner. Go to 'Subscriptions & API', then 'HeyGen API', and copy your API token. Keep this token safe as you'll need it to connect HeyGen with Make.

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Log in to Make

Open Make in your web browser and sign in with your credentials. Make is the platform where you'll create automations that connect HeyGen with other applications to work together automatically.

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Add a HeyGen module to your workflow

Create or open a scenario in Make and search for HeyGen in the module list. Add the HeyGen module to your scenario, which represents the specific action you want HeyGen to perform as part of your automation.

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Create and name your connection

When you add the HeyGen module, click 'Create a connection' to begin linking Make with your HeyGen account. Give your connection a memorable name in the 'Connection name' field so you can easily identify it later.

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Complete the connection with your API key

Paste the API token you copied from HeyGen into the 'API Key' field in Make. Click 'Save' to finalize the connection, which allows Make to securely communicate with your HeyGen account and start automating tasks.

Transform your content with AI-powered video automation

Connect HeyGen and OpenAI to automate video creation at scale. Generate scripts with ChatGPT, create personalized campaigns, repurpose content, and produce multilingual videos with AI avatars.

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AI-powered video script generation

Automatically generate compelling video scripts with ChatGPT and send them to HeyGen for instant AI avatar video creation.

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Automated personalized video campaigns

Use OpenAI to analyze customer data and generate personalized messages, then automatically create customized HeyGen videos at scale.

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Content repurposing workflow

Transform written content, articles, or documents into engaging video formats by processing text through ChatGPT and producing videos with HeyGen avatars.

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Multilingual video production

Use OpenAI's translation capabilities to convert scripts into multiple languages and automatically generate localized HeyGen videos for global audiences.

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By integrating HeyGen with OpenAI through Make, you can automate the entire video creation workflow. Use ChatGPT to generate engaging video scripts, DALL-E to create custom visuals or thumbnails, and then automatically feed this content into HeyGen to produce professional AI-generated videos. This integration eliminates manual copying and pasting between platforms, saves hours of work, and ensures consistent, high-quality video content at scale. Make's visual automation builder lets you set up these workflows without coding, so you can focus on creativity rather than technical implementation.

There are numerous powerful use cases for this integration: automatically generate personalized video messages for customers using ChatGPT scripts and HeyGen avatars, create educational content by having OpenAI summarize complex topics and HeyGen present them visually, produce multilingual marketing videos where OpenAI translates content and HeyGen delivers it with realistic avatars, or build automated news briefings where GPT-4 curates information and HeyGen presents it. Make enables you to trigger these workflows based on various events like new form submissions, spreadsheet updates, or scheduled times, making video production scalable.

No programming skills are required. Make provides a user-friendly, drag-and-drop interface that allows you to connect HeyGen and OpenAI visually. You simply select the applications you want to integrate, choose triggers and actions, and map data between them using Make's intuitive builder. Make handles all the technical API connections and authentication in the background. You can start with pre-built templates for common workflows or create custom integrations tailored to your specific needs. This makes advanced AI video automation accessible to marketers, content creators, educators, and business professionals without any coding experience.

Using Make dramatically reduces the time and cost compared to both manual processes and custom development. Manual workflows require constantly switching between platforms, copying content, and repeating tasks—eating up hours daily. Building custom integrations from scratch requires hiring developers, maintaining code, and managing API changes, which can cost thousands of dollars and weeks of development time. Make provides a ready-to-use solution that can be set up in minutes, includes built-in error handling and monitoring, automatically updates when APIs change, and offers flexible pricing that scales with your usage. You get enterprise-grade automation without the enterprise-level investment, allowing you to start creating automated AI video workflows today.