What is Synthesia?
Synthesia is an AI video generator platform that turns text into studio-quality videos for business use. It produces videos with AI avatars, voiceovers, and on-screen content across more than 160 languages. The platform covers the full production cycle from script to published video. It includes an AI screen recorder, a video translator, a multilingual player, LMS export via SCORM, and real-time team collaboration tools. Templates and an AI assistant let you convert documents, links, or raw ideas into finished video content.
Features & Benefits
- AI Video Generator: Generate professional videos from a text script using AI avatars and voiceovers. No cameras, studios, or actors needed.
- AI Avatars: Choose from 240+ prebuilt AI avatars to present your video content. Avatars speak in 160+ languages with lip-synced delivery.
- Personal Avatar: Create a custom AI avatar based on your own likeness. The avatar replicates your appearance and voice across any video.
- AI Voice Generator: Produce natural-sounding voiceovers from text in 160+ languages using a library of 1,000+ AI voices.
- AI Voice Cloning: Clone your own voice to use across video projects without re-recording.
- AI Screen Recorder: Record your screen and generate a clean, edited video with an automatic transcript. Remove filler words and update content without re-recording.
- AI Script Generator: Generate a video script from a prompt, document, link, or existing idea directly inside the platform.
- AI Video Assistant: Transform documents, PDFs, links, or raw ideas into a finished AI video that matches your brand style.
- Video Translator: Translate any existing video into 160+ languages with lip-synced audio matched to the AI avatar.
- AI Dubbing: Dub videos into new languages with synced audio output.
- Multilingual Video Player: Host and deliver videos in multiple languages inside a single player. Viewers select their preferred language on playback.
- Brand Kit: Apply your logo, colors, and style settings across all videos to keep output consistently on-brand.
- Live Collaboration: Create, edit, comment, and review videos with team members in real time inside shared workspaces.
- Version Control: Update published videos and sync changes across all existing links. No broken links or duplicate file management required.
- SCORM Export: Export videos in SCORM format for direct integration with any learning management system.
- Video Analytics: Track views, drop-off points, and completion rates to measure video performance.
- Video Templates: Start production from a library of prebuilt templates covering common business video formats.
- Interactivity: Add interactive elements to videos to increase viewer engagement.
What can Synthesia do?
- Generate a training video from a text script
- Create an AI avatar video in multiple languages
- Translate a corporate video into Spanish
- Dub an existing video into French
- Convert a PDF into a video
- Record and edit a screen walkthrough
- Clone a voice for video narration
- Export a training video to an LMS in SCORM format
- Build a compliance training video
- Track video completion rates across a team
- Update a published video without changing its link
- Create an onboarding video from a document
Real-World Applications
L&D teams producing employee training content can use Synthesia as an AI video generator to replace traditional video shoots. A team that previously needed a studio, a presenter, and an editor can convert existing course materials or SOPs into finished videos. Updating a course no longer requires a reshoot. Changes go directly into the script and publish automatically.
Marketing and sales teams that operate across multiple regions may find the translation and dubbing features particularly useful. A product video recorded in English can be converted into a localized version for a French, German, or Portuguese-speaking audience. The AI video generator handles lip sync and voiceover output, removing the need for regional production budgets.
HR and internal communications teams can produce consistent video content for announcements, policy updates, and onboarding programs. A personal avatar can deliver messaging in a repeatable format across multiple languages. Teams working across time zones can collaborate on drafts in real time without routing files through external tools.
IT and cybersecurity training programs with large, distributed audiences can produce and maintain video content at scale. SCORM export connects finished videos directly to existing LMS platforms. Version control means a compliance update appears in all previously distributed videos automatically, with no file replacement needed.
