Create Highly Engaging A.I. Videos

By now, there’s a high chance that you’ve come across a technology called ChatGPT.

And if I’m guessing correctly, you might have even used it to write emails, assignments, and whatnot.

Now, imagine an AI creating the videos for you and handling everything from speaking to showing its humanlike face to moving its lips… just everything!

This is happening, and Synthesia is an example of one such app that makes it possible at an impressive intensity.

In this review guide, we’ll dive deeper into Synthesia, exploring its endless video creation capabilities.

Whether you’re a YouTuber making explainer videos in your niche or a coach looking to create training courses, Synthesia can help you achieve your goals and much more.

TL;DR

Are you tired of spending hours editing videos and struggling to find the perfect spokesperson for your brand or business?

Say hello to Synthesia, the AI wizard that creates videos for you with realistic lip movements, countless avatars with over 120 speaking languages, and built-in templates.

Give Synthesia a try and enjoy effortless, professional-quality video creation.

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What is Synthesia?

Synthesia is a video creation platform where you can create professional, fully-fledged videos with the help of AI, including voices, avatars, tonality, and much more.

The best thing about videos created with Synthesia is their originality. It is extremely difficult to discern whether the spokesperson in the video is human because they look, sound, and feel just like one.

With Synthesia, the possibilities are endless. You can create:

• How-to explainer tutorials
• Product demos
• Training videos
• Social media content
• Etc.

Not only that, but Synthesia also offers over 85 different avatars, and they are regularly adding new ones.

Each avatar can be customized in language, voice, clothing style, camera angles, backgrounds, and more.

Moreover, you can even create your custom avatar with your desired voice. This feature is particularly useful for brands looking to personalize their videos on a deeper level.

With a built-in recorder, you can record videos directly from Synthesia and edit, trim, and crop them as needed.

For those who need a lot of media in their videos, I have great news for you!

They offer royalty-free media assets from Unsplash and Shutterstock. The same goes for royalty-free background music.

With the intro out of the way, let’s see exactly how to get started with Synthesia.

Getting Started with Synthesia

First things first—For all those of you who are looking to try Synthesia out for free before committing to a paid plan, you can do that!

Head over to Synthesia’s homepage, and you will see a button named ‘Create a free AI video.’

Once you click on that button, you will be forwarded to a new page where you will be able to select your video template and the script that you want your AI avatar to speak.

Click continue once you make the necessary changes and the last step is to fill in your basic account details including the email address where you want the video to be sent.

After a few minutes, you should receive an email from Synthesia with your amazing AI-generated video.

This free trial will help you determine the quality of output generated by Synthesia.

If you like what they have to offer, then you will definitely like all the features the paid plan comes with.

Interface And User Experience

Synthesia is stupidly easy and functional to use.

Once you get a monthly subscription and login, this is what its user dashboard looks like:

Everything is just so clean and easy to find, with adequate whitespace wherever required.

The left menu is your master sidebar. From here, you can head back home, and access all the videos created to date, as well as the videos sent to trash.

You can also access templates:

And avatars from the left menu bar:

If you are a geeky designer who likes to create universal templates and use them more than once, Synthesia enables you to create custom templates.

And as discussed earlier, Synthesia has over 85 awesome avatars you can choose from. Before deciding on any avatar, you can also click on that avatar to preview it in different languages.

Lastly, you can also head over to the help section from here.

You will see two buttons in the top right corner:

1. Import PowerPoint
2. New video

That’s right! You can import your existing PowerPoint slides and convert them into engaging videos.

As of now, we’ll click on ‘New video’ to see what the video editor looks like. Once you click on the button, you will be asked to either choose from an existing Synthesia template or start from a blank page.

I’ll go with the latter one. The editing pane will look like this:

Pretty cool!

As we move on with discussing the features of Synthesia, you’ll see exactly how each feature in this editing pane operates.

Best Synthesia Features

1. Humanlike AI Avatars

Synthesia comes with over 85 different avatars based on your preferences.

All the avatars can speak in their distinct voice, body language and hand gestures, tonality, and at least 5 different languages as of now (namely – English, German, Spanish, Italian, and French).

As mentioned above, all the avatars can be accessed and previewed before trying them out.

If you wish to create a video with a specific avatar you like, just click on the button ‘Create a video with this avatar’.

And that avatar will open up in the new full video editor.

If what you are looking for is not available in any of Synthesia’s existing avatars, you can request a custom avatar.

It’s a paid add-on feature, and the charges may vary depending on what you want your avatar to look and sound like.

2. Professional Voice-over With Multiple Language Support

As you already know that every avatar has a unique set of characteristics that sets them apart from the rest.

For instance, when you click on an avatar to preview it, you will see what its uniqueness is, in the description.

Additionally, when you are using the full video editor, you will see a language-changing dropdown menu:

This menu is divided into three different language sections:

1. Recommended voices
2. Other voices
3. Other languages

And you will be astonished to see how many languages a single avatar supports.

You can, for example, choose from a lot of English accents from all over the world. Moreover, you can select the English language based on tones (like calm, deep, friendly, serious, promotional, etc.).

This feature is a game changer, especially when your video’s voice and emotions have to change depending on the topic of the video.

It’s really simple:

More languages = catering to a wider audience with nearly similar efforts.

Additionally, Synthesia automatically generates subtitles for your videos that you can choose to enable/disable while generating the video.

3. Built-in Video Templates

Another cool feature of Synthesia is their truly phenomenal templates that you can start using in your videos with a click.

To take things to the next level, they have a best practices video tutorial for each template that shows you how you can use that template more effectively.

Also, when you click on a certain template, you will see all the pages/ single slides included in that template.

Just click on ‘Use this template’ and it will be loaded into your editor, where you can freely customize it the way you want, or simply go with the default one.

If you have an existing presentation ready as a .ppt or .pptx file, you can simply import it with a click of a button.

And of course, if you want to create your template and use it over and over again, you can do that too.

4. Modern Video Editor Dashboard

Synthesia’s video editor stands out from the crowd for being incredibly user-friendly and simply brilliant.

With impeccable use of white space, everything is placed perfectly, making it easy on the eyes. You’ll have everything you need at your fingertips without straining your eyeballs.

The extreme left of the editor is a simple slide-adding pane.

All the external media assets can be added from here:

The ‘Record’ button you see enables you to record your screen without any third-party tool.

The middle-bottom pane is where the avatar’s voice-over can be controlled. Anything you write on the text container will be spoken by your spokesperson.

If you want your avatar to perform certain verbal gestures while speaking certain words or phrases (like saying yes/no with a head), you can do so from here:

And lastly, the right sidebar of the editor is a place from where you can control everything ranging from your background color and media to background music and cropping/replacing certain areas of your video.

Honestly, with nearly no learning curve and built-in useful accessibility, you can quickly master Synthesia and produce professional quality videos more quickly than you thought.

5. Easy Video Sharing & Embedding

Once you download the video in Synthesia, you have two options once you click on ‘Publish’:

1. You can either enable public access, copy the link or share it with anyone.

2. Or, you can copy the embed code and embed this video anywhere possible (like a WordPress page/post).

Furthermore, there are two cool features you can play with:

1. You can either allow or not allow the recipient to duplicate your video (like the ‘Make a copy button’ in Google Docs).
2. And you can also enable a call to action (CTA) at the end of your video. This creates a clickable button that can be linked to any webpage you want (great promotional use cases).

These were some cool things Synthesia can do. And as you start experimenting with it, you will come to an epiphany that these are not the only cool things it can do.

With invaluable use cases for anyone who is into creating some sort of video content, Synthesia has something to offer us all.

Synthesia Pricing

Synthesia allows you to create a free AI video, and then you can choose to upgrade to their Personal plan that starts at around $24/month.

The Personal plan is a one-member plan, meaning you cannot share it with someone else.

Also, it gives you 10 video credits per month. This means that for every minute of generated video content, you are using one credit.

The Personal plan unlocks your access to all the avatars and languages currently available with Synthesia.

What We Like About Synthesia

1. Synthesia is incredibly easy to use, even for those without much video editing experience.
2. The ability to generate videos in multiple languages is a huge plus for businesses with a global audience.
3. The animations of the human spokesperson are highly realistic and engaging, and can help to increase viewer retention.
4. Synthesia offers a wide range of customization options, including voice-overs, music, and backgrounds, giving users full creative control over their videos.

Where We Wish Synthesia Did Better

1. While the animations of the human spokesperson are highly realistic, they are still limited in terms of expression and movement.
2. The rendering time for the videos can be slow, especially for longer videos or those with more complex animations.

Concluding Synthesia Review

With its cutting-edge AI technology and endless customization options, it’s no rocket science why more and more businesses and individuals are turning to Synthesia.io to create badass videos that capture their audience’s attention.

Whether you’re looking to create a marketing video, training material, or even just a fun social media engagement post, Synthesia.io does that for you much better and faster.