Synthesia

Avantages

It's very easy to use. The learning curve is steep, I was able to start making a video within 20 minutes.

Inconvénients

I want more videos per month. I have the Creator plan, but could use it more 30 minutes per month. I would also like to see Mac support for making a personal Avatar

Avantages

I absolutely LOVE Synthesia. Making a training video in minutes, or even seconds if my content is already completed (not accounting for the time to generate the video) is amazing. Words like "DOPE" are how people describe the proofs of concept I've done.

Inconvénients

What I liked least about Synthesia was figuring out what monthly vs annual or lowest tier vs mid tier package I needed in order to get around the prohibition to use a library avatar to videos that contained religious language. I went up to a higher tier monthly version and then back down to the lowest tier annual version and finally figured out on my own that if I used a personal avatar I could get around the prohibition around religious language with a library avatar. That was frustrating. For a moment, really frustrating. But I figured it out and now people (again) who have seen my proofs of concept are really impressed. I am more than excited to combine this tool with the circle network building platform.

Avantages

I do not have a positive experience to submit to this platform.

Inconvénients

Synthesia

1. “Community Guidelines” are far too abstract and arbitrary leaving too much interpretation to your censors of free speech to be predictable from the customer/developer.

For example, the cancellation of customer/developer videos for “impersonation” seems to not allow for any names either for the avatar to call themselves by name, nor for the avatar to address any person by name is contrary to normal conservational language standards.

For any customer/developer, the inability to use common language in your product does not allow for creative efforts into virtual environments to include live, virtual and constructive environments.

This restrictive policy removes the ability to present a normal dialogue in virtual environments and is too restrictive, and NOT mentioned in the material you provide prior to purchase of your product.

2. The application of your “Community Guidelines” is punitive and not collaborative.

Your “artificial intelligence” has been programmed to detect the potential of “impersonation”
should flag the material in question AS the material is being produced in the development window of your product. You could easily program your system to advise the customer/developer of the potential issue during the input stage that would save many hours of time from the customer/developer.

Your cancellation of customer/developer videos is very comparable to COVID level censorship and authoritarian means of silencing voices.

3. The inability to then edit and correct the flagged “violation of community standards” by being locked OUT of the materials that we were used during the development cycle means even a larger loss of time.

4. The lack of customer service and coordination over these issues is alarming and seems dictatorial. I see no effort to engage the customer/developer over these concerns, nor correct the waste of time that your company presents.

For the reasons above, I recommend avoiding this company. There are far more providers with better products and services.

Reid Reasor

Avantages

What I loved most about Synthesia is its ability to generate avatars that seamlessly communicate in over 16 languages. This multilingual feature has been particularly impactful in the EMEA region, enabling us to create localized content that speaks directly to our audience in their native languages without compromising quality or speed.

Inconvénients

I can't say I have found something I don't like now.

Avantages

The possibility to create your own avatar, in your surrounding. It looks so real !

Inconvénients

The lack of avatars (non personal) with office background. There is only one but the woman avatar looks too old for the type of video I want to create.

Avantages

After assessing with other competitors, I haven't found any who comes close with the right balance of believability and quality of their avatars. The ease of use is also a great plus. I don't need complexity of features right now. For us, it offers true scalability and believability to our videos. We are also looking to scale out to other countries so offering translation capabilities is going to be a massive hit when we do.

Inconvénients

Workspace needs some work. Inability to share Avatars in an enterprise environment. Although simple to use, and despite my comments earlier, a few extra editing tools would be useful. Being able to add emphasis to specific words over and beyond offering a phonetic spelling. Ability to slow the speach in places would be useful too. Adding pauses is a good compromise, but compromise it is still.

Avantages

This is an amazing product. No kidding. Now with the new personal avatars, even I am shocked seeing myself and my collegues create videos in a way that is pretty much 100% real!

Inconvénients

Can be a little slow in creating the videos and in particulat creating personal avatars. But It's really quite understandable since the quality is so good and it really is a very high demand on computing resources to create such things.

Avantages

The platform is fantastic. Moving into training for future development.
Our weekly safety message is distributed globally, and the translation capability is fabulous.

Inconvénients

If you try it, You will Like it. Synthesia makes time for you.

Alternatives envisagées 

Adobe Photoshop

Pourquoi passer à Synthesia

functionality, ease of use, cost and licensing

Avantages

Personal Avatars are really great in terms of quality and voice cloning.

Inconvénients

The fact only 3 plans available and once you max out the little 300 minutes you have to go enterprise and its a dark hole coz no one says whats included.

Avantages

Avatars are easy to work with. Its also easy to set up professional looking videos.

Inconvénients

No ability to use tables and most of all the langauge feature is not affordable for one man enterprises.

Avantages

Die Avatare werden immer natürlicher und großartig ist, dass man jetzt auch seinen eigenen Avatar erstellen kann. Das ist eine enorme Zeitersparnis, wenn man zwischen drin Coaching-Videos aufnehmen möchte.

Inconvénients

Das man sich im Vorfeld nicht anschauen kann, wie das fertig Video aussieht. Man kann den Avatren ja verschiedene Sachen zuordnen, wie z.B. die Augenbrauen hochziehen, um eine Textpassage zu betonen. Das würde ich mir halt gerne vorher mal anschauen, bevor ich Videominuten abgeben muss.

Avantages

With just a few simple mouse clicks, I can transform plain text and ideas into professional videos effortlessly. The integration of AI, particularly, empowers me to produce captivating and polished videos.

Inconvénients

I find very little to dislike about the application. I am astounded and pleasantly surprised by the extensive range of features and functionalities the tool offers.

Avantages

La semplicità di creazione video. La costruzione di un video sulla formazione risulta abbastanza intuitivo con gli strumenti offerti dalla piattaforma

Inconvénients

Limiti rigidi nell'utilizzo dei propri avatar ( non mi è stato comunicato perchè il secondo avatar è stato bloccato dal limite contrattuale

Avantages

High quality products and they keep improving

Inconvénients

I can't think of anything that bothers me about Synthesia.

Avantages

Synthesia offers all we need to achieve personal and professional goals on developing our presentations with avatars, our own avatars, what saves time and money to have content tools ready to sell or educate our business ecosystem.

Inconvénients

Ok, it takes one day to complete the construction of a personal avatar.

Avantages

It's is intuitive, easy to produce, nice avatars.

Inconvénients

They frequently do not approve videos due to "Internal Guidelines". The last onde was "Your video was moderated for violating our Financial Solicitation: Multi-Level-Marketing Schemes guideline."
My video had NOTHING related to this. And a previous video was approved and almost identical in content to the one that was moderated.

The worst part: 24h waiting review, 48h for appeal. It should be easy make an video, and it looks like we're criminals making scum.

It's easier to make a real video.

Avantages

It's an incredibly intuitive tool. If you successfully navigate a tool such as PowerPoint, you can be off and running on this. Plus, features like the on-screen AI personas are neat, but we've found just having AI help to edit and punch up scripts, while awesome narrators are included? Makes a big difference.

Inconvénients

Interface updates feel like they roll out regularly, even small scale ones, without enough advance notification.

Avantages

I’ve been using Synthesia for a while now, and I’m continually amazed by their relentless innovation and technological advancements. The progress they’ve made in such a short time is remarkable, and I’m incredibly excited about what the future holds. The latest avatars and voices are impressively lifelike, making the experience even more immersive.

Inconvénients

Since I signed up, I’ve consistently requested the ability to render individual slides instead of the entire project at once. Having the option to work with multiple slides within a single project and render specific parts as needed would greatly enhance my workflow. Currently, we often resort to using external video editors to compile the final video, such as adding background music or inserting effects between existing clips—features that Synthesia doesn’t support at the moment.

Avantages

how easy it is to make videos. copy/paste text and you're off and running!

Inconvénients

have had some struggles with the avatars mouths matching what the audio says.

Avantages

The simplicity creating a new video and allowing my mind to run as fast as it does and being able to make changes about having.

Inconvénients

Nothing exactly what I need So not a question that I have a valid answer for other than it works.

Avantages

The ability to translate a video quickly into another language.

Inconvénients

It would be good to add voice to SET parts of an imported video. If we could have a pop out tool that showed the timeline of the video for us to then add the text, which would be spoken, to right part of the video.

Avantages

You do not have to record the audio repeatedly until it is correct. i type it in one time, and I am done

Inconvénients

The cost of services is very high for enterprises and you need an account below this

Alternatives envisagées 

Camtasia

Pourquoi passer à Synthesia

It is easier to use, and you have animators - excellent templates and AI Assist

Avantages

ease of use. functions are very practical and applies to day to day video creation life.

Inconvénients

nothing so far. The focus on ease of use and getting a video out to your target market is incredible.

Avantages

With Synthesia I can create great-quality, professional videos at the fraction of the time that it used to take me before, although I am an experienced user of other video creation tools, such as Adobe Premiere Pro. Synthesia is very easy to use, intutitive, and realy saves a lot of time. And the quality of the avatars is amazing. I created my own avatar using a simple self-made studio set-up at home. The avatar is great and I use it all the time.

Inconvénients

I sometimes find it difficult to set the right pace for the voice-over i.e. when the avatar speaks I need to add quite a few pauses, etc. into the script even when I deliberately choose the voice which speaks slowly an clearly. I also sometimes have trouble with text editing. For example, I often cannot select the text I wish to edit right away and need to click / try 2-3-4 times before I can change font size, for example, or the fint itself. Don't know why this happens.

Avantages

Synthesia turns typical presentations into engaging, dynamic videos, which was super valuable for internal use (warehouse training, compliance, HR hiring, Signature authorisation policy) in our company. The platform offers over 150 avatars, some are customizable with logos and attire changes. It supports 120+ languages, with various accents and voice options, including the ability to clone voices. Also a personal avatar feature is a killer, it's quite an experience watching myself speaking fluently 100 languages.

Inconvénients

Avatars still feel a bit artificial and uncanny. Rendering times can be long and frustrating, even for minor edits. Pronunciation can be inconsistent, numbers are sometimes pronounced incorrectly. Some AI voices sound flat and robotic, need some trial and error to find the best options.

Avantages

ES duna facilidad increible, realmente es un programa intuitivo y muy versatil. Además siempre nos están enviando tutorías y explicaciones sobre novedades y actualizaciones.Gracias.!!!

Inconvénients

Que solo se pueden usar 3.10 minutos de voz por escenario y que los escenarios están limitados a 10

Avantages

Synthesia has simplified the process of generating explanatory videos, and I thoroughly loved using it. If you're reading this, I encourage you to sign up with Synthesia right now.

Inconvénients

Synthesia's ethnic avatar voices are not ethnic.

Avantages

In the beginning it was very easy to use and navigate around the app.

Inconvénients

Probably when you provide your updates the explanation are either a video or a bot. In order to speak with a person you have to explain to the bot and if you are worthy you can speak to a person. That process is very time consuming and frustrating . I realize i am not your typical market an old guy who was a round when computers were as large as a building and your phone was attached to o that building. You cannot go wrong with human contact. Not enough professional Africa Americans who are dresss professionally

Avantages

It is very easy to transform an idea (or text) into a video. I have tested other platforms and Synthesia is by far the easiest one.

Inconvénients

I would like to create different avatars (some of them with a non-natural look i.e. a robot, or a dog). Seems that it is not possible at the moment.

Alternatives envisagées 

Doodly, Vyond, CreateStudio, PowToon, VideoScribe et Animaker

Pourquoi passer à Synthesia

Because they had the features I was looking for.

Avantages

Having a workforce of many avatars awaiting to speak on our company’s behalf is a remarkable benefit. Teaching dog parents the canine’s psychology after they’ve adopted a traumatized dog, is hard to do but Synthesia provided a way to create and touch dog lovers from where they are at and then advance their knowledge. For example, Anton one of the avatars provides a soft and cultured voice to our lessons.

Inconvénients

I do wish the avatars would include disable people to ensure we can be recognized in the diverse population we cater too. I would like to change the speed of the voice, pauses are great, but overall speed would be great.

Alternatives envisagées 

D-ID

Pourquoi choisir Synthesia 

To be honest I was trying both at the same time. But D-Id voice synch wasn’t as good. And it requires me to upgrade my Mac. I did eventually but stuck with Synthesia because of the constant improvements and service.

Logiciel antérieur 

D-ID

Pourquoi passer à Synthesia

As mentioned above

Avantages

The Avatar looks natural and the summary from the uploaded script is well-written.

Inconvénients

The quota is small. I can make 30-minutes videos per month.

Avantages

avatars and prompts for videos that I dont have to come up with video text myself but the ai does it from an idea i give it.

Inconvénients

tried removing the background on my avatar and it came back blank without any avatar at all saying low rez

Avantages

The avatar feature is like no other. It is very user-friendly, very easy to navigate and the different voices available are great.

Inconvénients

There is nothing to dislike about this app.

Avantages

I like the use of Gen AI to complete content and how it's easy to apply our company branding. I'm impressed with the creation and use of personal avatars as well. The convenience of completing all this in one place is highly commendable

Inconvénients

It's heavy on bandwidth use. I cannot use the tool offline.

Avantages

Easy to create the avatar itself in terms of the recording, as well as the videos. I also really liked how I could use a background of my choosing. The platform is also super easy to navigate, even for someone with no tech background (ie: me).

Inconvénients

Having to use Google chrome browser. Also, the fact that now I am spending way too much time creating many more videos as it is so easy and fun to use and see the end results!

Avantages

Synthesia is extremely user-friendly. The interface is easy to navigate, and we can personalize video templates to our company brand. The platform helps us create engaging and relevant videos for our users, allowing us to enhance the quality of our online trainings and other company communications.

Inconvénients

The only negative I have is that when new features are released, the system can slow down or appear "buggy," but these issues don't happen often and usually do not interrupt our work.

Avantages

Simple to use. Realistic avatars and voices. Good video editing options and stock library of backgrounds and music.

Inconvénients

Some video editing limitations. Some inconsistencies with how the same word is pronounced. No roll over of unused minutes.

Avantages

Synthesia offers a user-friendly platform, making avatar creation seamless. The quality of the avatars is impressive and lifelike, enhancing the overall experience

Inconvénients

The cost of Synthesia can be quite high, especially for small businesses or individual users looking for regular content creation. A more affordable pricing structure would make it more accessible

Avantages

Synthesia is the best avatar software on the market!

Inconvénients

I think the prices are a bit steep, but the quality makes it worth it. And I'm not too fond of the content moderation system.

Avantages

continual development releases with improved user experience and dynamic video results.

Inconvénients

I am wondering if the new AI features allow for creation of images within Synthesia? It would be helpful is we could use a text to image generation feature.

Avantages

graphics is good enough for attracting people

Inconvénients

pricing is too much higher than similar softwares

Avantages

Synthesia is professional video creation tool at a good price.It let me focus on content instead of video creation. I can spend more time in writing articles, talk to other people. It make education become more independence.

Inconvénients

unfortunately, up to now Synthesia do not support two avatars in one scene.Dialogue is special useful when explain some complicate circumstance. I strongly recommend that the develop team consider this funciton.

Avantages

Converting PDF's and PPTs is very simple and I find that it is very user friendly.

Inconvénients

Some of the editing features on slides can be a little clunky.

Avantages

It's a very simple tool that streamlines the video production process for training videos that I put within eLearning course. The mix of avatars and voices along with the tone you can put on certain words helps me create diverse content for different audience groups.

Inconvénients

It takes some time to generate videos and the preview mode does not show you how the avatar moves and talks.

Alternatives envisagées 

Vyond

Pourquoi passer à Synthesia

Limited to 1000 words in Vyond per text box

Avantages

Ability to select various Avatar's.
Ease of use and option to edit script text per scene.
PowerPoint like features at a higher level with more versatility.

Inconvénients

I wish it was just like PowerPoint to be able to take and existing deck and edit and move around graphic and add an Avatar with a script. I also wish one could cut & paste any image instead of just the import option.

Avantages

So easy to use. Can complete a video on 15 minutes.

Inconvénients

Not much I can think of here. The editing would benefit from a feature to update all scenes, but even that is being really picky.

Avantages

User friendly and incredibly easy to convert existing content

Inconvénients

can be hard to select small items on different layers

Avantages

Ease of use was surprisingly simple. lots of templates

Inconvénients

sometimes reviewing the videos - you have to start from the beginning.

Avantages

Easy to create training videos using your avatar and voice cloning. It accelerates to process from months to hours.

Inconvénients

Hope that it is integrated with Canvas and blackboard in the future.

Avantages

Easy to use and verity of templets and Avatar with possibility to add personal Avatar, in addition to languages available

Inconvénients

professional in avatar lips, content been converted in a very professional way