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Media Overview
Media Generation and Understanding
OpenClaw generates images, videos, and music, understands inbound media (images, audio, video), and speaks replies aloud with text-to-speech. All media capabilities are tool-driven: the agent decides when to use them based on the conversation, and each tool only appears when at least one backing provider is configured.
Capabilities at a glance
Capability
Tool
Providers
What it does
Image generation
image_generate
ComfyUI, fal, Google, MiniMax, OpenAI, Vydra
Creates or edits images from text prompts or references
Creates videos from text, images, or existing videos
Music generation
music_generate
ComfyUI, Google, MiniMax
Creates music or audio tracks from text prompts
Text-to-speech (TTS)
tts
ElevenLabs, Microsoft, MiniMax, OpenAI
Converts outbound replies to spoken audio
Media understanding
(automatic)
Any vision/audio-capable model provider, plus CLI fallbacks
Summarizes inbound images, audio, and video
Provider capability matrix
This table shows which providers support which media capabilities across the platform.
Provider
Image
Video
Music
TTS
STT / Transcription
Media Understanding
Alibaba
Yes
BytePlus
Yes
ComfyUI
Yes
Yes
Yes
Deepgram
Yes
ElevenLabs
Yes
fal
Yes
Yes
Google
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Microsoft
Yes
MiniMax
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
OpenAI
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Qwen
Yes
Runway
Yes
Together
Yes
Vydra
Yes
Yes
xAI
Yes
Media understanding uses any vision-capable or audio-capable model registered in your provider config. The table above highlights providers with dedicated media-understanding support; most LLM providers with multimodal models (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc.) can also understand inbound media when configured as the active reply model.
How async generation works
Video and music generation run as background tasks because provider processing typically takes 30 seconds to several minutes. When the agent calls video_generate or music_generate, OpenClaw submits the request to the provider, returns a task ID immediately, and tracks the job in the task ledger. The agent continues responding to other messages while the job runs. When the provider finishes, OpenClaw wakes the agent so it can post the finished media back into the original channel. Image generation and TTS are synchronous and complete inline with the reply.
