Summary: The paper describes a solution to the problem of transmitting ``talking head'' video in real-time across low-bandwidth transmission media. Our solution is based on a video reconstruction system, which can generate realistic audio-visual narrations from arbitrary pieces of text. The system uses standard synthetic speech techniques to create an audio track and then produces a synchronized ``talking head'' using full-frame morphing of real-world facial images (key-frames). We discuss issues of original data capture, transmission protocols, synchronization interpolation, and the modeling of various physical activities which are vital to maintaining the ``plausibility'' of the final synthetic video sequence.