About the GUI

Before starting livestreaming, you can familiar yourself with the Virtual Avatar Livestreaming page and the page of creating a live room.

Home page of virtual avatar livestreaming

Figure 1 shows the home page of virtual avatar livestreaming. The description of each tab is as follows:

Livestreams: You can create a live room with a virtual avatar. See Livestreams.
Interactions: You can add an interaction rule library and interaction rules. The added interaction rule library can be directly imported to and used in the live room. See Interactions.
Products: You can add products. Products are automatically displayed on the Products tab of the live room, and can be used during livestreaming. See Products.
Livestreaming Tasks: shows the list of live rooms you have created. You can click this tab to enter a live room, modify the content in the live room, and start the streaming again. See Livestreaming Tasks.

Figure 1 Home page

Page of Creating a Live Room

Figure 2 shows the page of creating a live room. Table 1 describes details of the page.

Figure 2 Creating a live room

**Table 1** About the GUI
Area	Description
①	Material area. For details, see Operations of Livestreaming Materials. Templates: livestreaming template. This tab is visible only to administrators. Roles: virtual avatar image list. You can select the desired virtual avatar image or customize one. Backgrounds: background image list. You can import images from the local PC or select a preset background image. Stickers: sticker list. You can import stickers from the local PC to overlay stickers on the video. Videos: muted video list. An MOV, MP4, M4V, MKV, FLV, 3GP, WMV, or AVI video can be imported from the local PC and set as the background video. Products: product list. You need to customize a product, which can contain stickers, videos, text, and audios. Text: text template list. You can select a text template and insert text to the live video.
②	Livestream preview window, which is used to preview the static live video.
③	A live script consists of multiple scenes, and each scene consists of multiple paragraphs. You can add or copy a scene, and set the virtual avatar image, background, and voice for each scene. You can add or copy a paragraph, or import a piece of script in TXT format. The input content will be automatically parsed. Live script settings: Script Control You can select any of the following methods: Text Control: Enter text to control the speaking of virtual avatars. Audio Control: Upload an audio to control the speaking of virtual avatars. Improvising: Streaming starts without script. After the streaming starts, the virtual streamer remains silent, and will not speak until interactive content is input or the streaming is taken over by a human. Interaction Settings: You can choose On-screen Comments, Joining Live Rooms, Likes, or Gifts. Live Settings: You can configure Playback Startup, Output, Risk Control, and More. In the lower part of the page, Automatic livestreaming after loading is selected by default. Click Prepare Livestreaming. The livestream starts automatically after the loading is complete. If you want to delay the livestream, deselect Automatic livestreaming after loading and click Prepare Livestreaming. To start the livestream, click Start Streaming at the same position.
④	The ongoing livestream name (customizable) is displayed on the left. In the middle of this area, the icons for editing the live room name (), operation undoing (), operation restoration (), and screen layout (, 9:16 by default) are displayed from left to right. On the right of this area: : icon of saving. The latest time of saving is automatically displayed on the right of the icon. : Click this icon to clear all content of a live room.