Synthesia
Synthesia creates videos with AI avatars speaking a script in dozens of languages, used widely for training content.
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About Synthesia
What it is
Synthesia makes presenter-led video from a script. You pick an avatar, type or paste the words, and it produces a person delivering them to camera in any of a long list of languages. It is aimed at companies making training and communications video at volume.
Why it's different
It is the most established tool of its kind and the one genuinely built for organisations, with templates, brand control, shared workspaces, and the ability to update a video by editing its script rather than re-filming. That last point is the real argument: a process document that changes every quarter is miserable to keep filmed. The avatars remain stiff, standing still and gesturing generically, and viewers identify them quickly. There is no free tier and it is priced for a company, not a person.
How people use it
Compliance, onboarding and policy training. Internal announcements in several languages. Product explainers that need updating whenever the product changes. Turning an existing deck and script into video. Use it where a video must be correct and current rather than engaging, and film a real person for anything meant to persuade or build trust.
Step by step
- Write the script first and read it aloud once. The avatar delivers exactly what you typed, so anything awkward on the page is worse on screen.
- Keep sentences short. Synthetic delivery falls apart on long clauses far sooner than a human reader does.
- Build from a template so brand colours and lower thirds are consistent across modules rather than set per video.
- Update by editing the script and re-rendering rather than re-recording — that is the entire argument for using this at all.
- Use it where the information matters more than the delivery, and film a real person for anything meant to persuade.
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