Synthesia
What is Synthesia?
Synthesia is an AI platform where you type a script and it creates a video of a realistic AI presenter delivering that script, without needing a camera, studio, or real person on screen.
At a glance
- Type of model
- AI avatar video generation and talking-head synthesis platform
- Developed by
- Synthesia
- Key capability
- Generating professional presenter videos from text scripts using AI avatars with synchronised speech, lip animation, and gesture
- How it fits in AI workflow
- Used to produce scalable presenter and communication video content: training, onboarding, marketing, and internal communications: without traditional video production
- Related terms
- OmnihumanDigital humanTalking headText-to-videoLip syncAI avatar
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How it compares
Synthesia is a commercial production platform optimised for enterprise presenter video with a polished user interface and workflow, while Omnihuman is a research model exploring the technical frontier of full-body human animation from arbitrary images. Synthesia is production-ready for business content today; Omnihuman represents the advancing capability that future commercial tools will be built on.
Pro tip
For enterprise clients producing multilingual training content, Synthesia's multi-language support means you can write a script once and produce versions in dozens of languages simultaneously: far more efficient than recording localised versions with human presenters, and a compelling use case for demonstrating AI video ROI to stakeholders.
Types and variations
- Synthesia offers stock avatars representing diverse ages, ethnicities, and presentation styles, as well as custom avatar creation from a personal video recording.
- The platform supports over 120 languages and voices for multilingual content production.
- Enterprise tiers provide additional avatar customisation, API access, and integration options for embedding Synthesia video generation into larger content production workflows.
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- Synthesia is used for producing corporate training and e-learning videos, HR onboarding content, product demo and explainer videos, internal communications and company updates, customer service video, multilingual content localisation, and marketing videos where a consistent branded presenter is needed at scale.
- It is particularly valued in organisations that need to produce high volumes of video content without a dedicated video production team.
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Direct scenes, design characters, and ship full films
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FAQs
Synthesia is used to create presenter-style videos using AI avatars for corporate training, e-learning, internal communications, marketing, and customer-facing content: all produced from a text script without a camera or studio.
Yes: Synthesia allows users to create custom avatars by recording a short video of themselves or another person. The custom avatar can then be used across all video content on the platform.
Synthesia supports over 120 languages, allowing the same video content to be produced in multiple languages from a single script, which is one of its key advantages for global organisations.
Synthesia is optimised for professional presenter and communication video rather than creative filmmaking. For cinematic, narrative, or stylistically ambitious video content, more flexible AI video generation tools are better suited.
Synthesia avatars are realistic enough for professional business and training video. Lip sync, gesture, and expression quality is high for a presenter format, though very close inspection or demanding creative contexts may reveal the synthetic nature of the output.
No: Synthesia is designed as a no-code platform accessible to anyone. Users type a script, select an avatar, choose a background, and the platform generates the video. An API is available for developers who want to integrate Synthesia into automated content pipelines.
