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Synthesia Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated
Synthesia is an enterprise-grade AI video generation platform that creates avatar-led, text-driven videos without cameras or studios. It supports 160+ spoken languages, custom avatars, brand kits, collaboration, integrations (API, Zapier, LMS/CMS), and enterprise security/compliance, with free and paid tiers to suit teams and organizations.
| Company | Synthesia Ltd |
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| Year founded | 2017 |
| Company size | 501-1000 employees |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Capabilities |
AI
API
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| Segment |
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
| Support | Chat, Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base |
| Training | Documentation, Videos |
| Languages | English |
Synthesia Pros and Cons
- Produces polished, avatar-led, talking-head business videos without filming
- Strong multilingual support (160+ languages) with translation and dubbing
- Brand control features (brand kit, custom avatars) and collaboration tools
- Wide integrations and robust security/compliance (ISO, SOC2)
- Accessible free and lower-cost tiers to start producing
- Key features (custom avatars, brand kit, certain exports) are restricted to higher or enterprise tiers
- Full editor and richer features are desktop-oriented; mobile experience limited
- Full arbitrary voice cloning not clearly available for general users
- Unused credits or video minutes do not roll over between billing periods
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Great voices from the avatars even in different languages. Very easy to create. Good templates that helps me to quickly create a video
Takes some time to publish a video. The Swedish AI can improve.
Easy to communicate inspirational videos to our target groups.
I like that you can use many available avatars to create high quality content for your business or non profit.
I wish it had its own Text generation software built in like GPT3. Maybe one day they can put both the Text generation with the video format.
It solves the fact you don't need to hire actual professionals to act in your videos. You get on demand video content out of the box.
Scripting and not having to read off a teleprompter anymore! What used to take me 3 months I did in 3 weeks. Game changer for training videos! This is the firs AI software that I have used. When I was looking into competitors the avatars seemed to be better with Synthesia.
The screen recorder doesn't work very well. It seems to only work if it is recording an internet tab. Sometimes I need to record everything that I'm doing. I would like there to be a more seamless way to create a screen share with voice-over. I'm sure it'll be updated eventually.
Training videos for future employees
What I like most about Synthesia is the ability to generate high value videos in less than 15 minutes. It contains many important tools such as changing accents by country, setting a green background, changing the size of the humanoid, etc.
Not being able to visualize the humanoid speaking until the video is generated.
Not having to spend on photo studios for the creation of professional videos.
integration with the language and look of the avatars, the presentation tools are great
Some avatars look robotic, and sometimes is necessary to evaluate different voices because not all Spanish-speaking voices are very accurate, one minute of video or 6 slides is very limitating
new ways to present corporative information, faster way to deliver a message
Synthesia has many different avatars using AI to create videos from text, creating scenes as if you were preparing a slideshow presentation. It has support to many different to languages with male and female voices.
Voices for languages such as Portuguese are limited. The previewing feature does not give a precise idea of the avatar behavior and movements (on the preview, a still picture of the avatar is rendered on the screen, probably for processing issues).
To create videos commenting a slideshow presentation, synthesia allows me to create shorter versions, in a more direct approach. When you record a person presenting, he/she usually add unnecessary comments and lots of filler words.
Multi language, was powerful for my job because I create for workshop and webinar
Need mor attention fo avatar but is ok for me for moment
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design user-friendliness usefulness a lot of features, even for the basic plan
Nothing so far - this service offers everything I and my projects need. Adding my own avatars would be an excellent addition to the basic plan. Anyway, the AI works super fine.
Reduces the cost of the podcast and presentation productions. Moreover, it saves a lot of time. Simply the perfect service for me and my company at this particular moment.
Its User-Interface (UI) is very easy to use and logical.
Not much! Would like the ability to add individual video snippets over the background. Would be good for training video applications.
Cost and professional presentation of Product video highlights.
We heard of Synthesia through TikTok first and about capabilities that it offers. At first it sounded as the future of video production was already here and it really was. Synthesia can generate videos through typing a text script and then their technology will translate that into a form a video where a human AI will speak those words that you typed. They have over 20+ different people and styles and they are adding more every week. This is the new way of generating videos that is easy enough for everyone to enjoy and is well priced. We love Synthesia !
Honestly there is very little that we can think of in terms of things to improve. Perhaps the only thing could be the price to generate your own avatar AI could offer some discounts every once in a while to a much accessible price point. Other than that , is just great
They keep working on increasing their avatar AI selection and they are now starting to introduce gestures which gives an extra level of realistic into the videos
the ability to create a custom avatar. This way I can build a truly unique communication experience
Nothing, the service seems perfect to me. Maybe something can be better about the pronunciation in some languages
It saves me a lot of time and gives me a new opportunity to develop creativity
Easy to apply elements , backgrounds and text. Great customer service .
There is really Nothing. I love this app. Iam still learning .
This software helps entrepreneurs with a very limited budget to produce quality explainer content with out having to physically be on camera
If you are like me and have some texty pages, you copy-paste your text into Synthesia and have very lifelike spokesperson say it instead. It is much easier to use than Toonly.
I'm not sure there is anything to dislike. There is one thing that Synthesia could improve. I would like to know how much of my monthly quota I have used. (There is no meter that I have found yet.) And I would like an easier way to buy extra videos than to pay in $30 tranches with no volume discount. Maybe they will find a better pricing model in time.
Synthesia allows me to quickly generate explainer videos in both of our official languages with attractive and diverse spokespeople. Consequently, my web pages have become less texty and more engaging. Everyone is amazed when I tell them that they are robots.
Wow, I'm so glad that I found Synthesia. It's such a relief to not have to worry about how long my videos are or how often I need to create new ones. Synthesia is an amazing AI video generator and it has saved me so much time!
Actually, there is nothing that i dislike but it would be great if they had more of different accent and dialogue
it helped me to get enough explores and present our business online
Short learning curve gets you started in minutes.
For me, no downsides. I would like to see the previews include action with the avatars.
Our budget for talent is zero, so we are able to produce videos at extremely low cost.
Very easy to use at a fair price! I don't need a lot of videos monthly and I have found a very good balance between price and quality in syntesia.
I don't like I cannot use my avatar for a fair price. I want to pay for this instead of being forced to have an annual subscription.
Video generation based on a script. I don't always have time to take a video, and the tools help me create content for my business as easily as a click.
It has been very interesting to use this tool. The results of the videos are impressive. Those who don't know yet, are surprised by the results achieved!
I would like more avatars. Some Latin-looking options would be interesting to me.
Produce video content quickly and easily.
I like most that the videos do look authentical. My customers ask me who I hired to record the videos.
It would be great to see a full preview without creating the video.
It solves the problem of explaining our business without creating a lot of text. I can also show diagrams and pictures in an easy way.
Avoid expensive and time consuming video shoots
pronunciation mismatches and lip sync is often off.
Product tutorials quickly
I've been using synthesia for a long time, when only synthesia had a few avatars available. From the start the quality and realism of the avatars is impressive. The new avatars go even further, allowing hand control and having 2 perspectives of the same avatar. Synthesia it's also amazing for text to speech. If you don't need the avatar video, you can use option "voice only". Synthesia top quality voices and hundreds of languages (including Zulu!!).
Although the reasons why synthesia places limits on the use of avatars are understood, in reality it is very difficult to use these avatars for those who want to create videos about political and historical facts. Synthesia should review its policy because it is an excellent tool for the educational field.
Educational videos. Marketing videos.
Easiest way to construct your videos related to other products in the market
I think that number of videos allowed per month needs an improvement!
Support, marketing, others
Synthesia serves mind-blowing AI features for video making. It is easy to use and gives a high quality video with minimal efforts. A superb app to subscribe!!!
Only a few times the vidoes buffers, thats the only drawback.
It is cost effective, and easy to use for any person with no prior knowledge of video editing
La facilidad para generar videos, tiene una guia muy detallada que nos capacita para sacarle la mejor utilidad
Los diez minutos por el pago ya considero que es muy poco, que solo te deja usar seis cuadros que estan en el lado izquierdo para hacer el video y que las voces de español de mexico es la misma por ejemplo la de hombre para todos los avatar al igual que la de mujer debería tener forma de variar el tono
Esta creando mas avatar cosa que se agradece
Avatars are looking like very realistic and also their voices are very clear.
My mother tongue is Finnish, but in Synthesia there are only 4 different voices in Finnish, 1 male voice and 3 female voices. I would like to have more voices in Finnish, because it increases the possibilities of using Synthesia for different purposes. There is still some room for improvement in the synchronization between the avatars' lip movements and the words/sentences spoken in Finnish.
With the help of Synthesia, I could create completely new usage possibilities, such as a virtual news studio and various presentations on things related to tourism, for example.
the interface is very easy to use. The choice of charators/avator are amzing. Covers just about every ethnicity/race/gender/work. I found the voices to be super close. I highly recommend this tool. I have already used it for create many videos.
I don't really have any dislikes. I love this app/service. I have tried other companies and NONE of them even come close to Syntenia.io
Speed to market with content. This is the biggest time solver. And we are benefiting the results because the videos are being recieved very well.
It's a nice and quick way of creating videos for teams with a smaller budget or having to produce lots of videos fast.
You can tell it's AI, but that's only natural. There's nothing that I truly dislike.
Creating videos fast.
I really like the simplicity of the interface and the many elements one can customise. Personally, I have been looking at being able to use synthesised actors for quite a while now. I find that Synthesia does a great job, by streamlining such a complex job (that of having to match words and video so seamlessly) and it only takes a few minutes to be able to download the video.
I find that the art direction of the actors could be improved, especially with regards to lighting and overall style (the clothes they are wearing, the make-up, hair-style etc. But I can see that new ones are being added and I'm sure this will be further developed with time. The British actors sometimes seem to have some audio artefacts (long unnatural pauses etc), however these are glitches that can be improved with quick custom tricks (there is a good section about it)
I needed to make a video about AI and Sythesia's offer was just the right thing for me. There is so much time and resources that I am saving just by using the website.
I like the options in style of script reading. These options are not available with competitors.
I think more full length female avatars would be a plus.
Because of the script speech delivery options it is solving finding the right mood in speech delivery of the script.
I think the best thing is the customization in the video area that you can upload your own pictures or graphics. And furthermore I find the selection of several languages or rather linguistic dialects great
What I do not like so much is in the editing of the pauses of the avatars. There, where you insert the text, could appear a menu bar so that you can just click on it and thus insert pauses or gestures.
The problem that Synthesia solves a lot for me is that I don't have to hire a professional voiceover artist or wait long for the finished videos. Instead, with Synthese yes, I can produce marketing videos in a matter of minutes.
One of the best online products in recent years. Speech quality, avatar quality, rendering speed, simple and intuitive interface. My field of application: AR business cards, video widgets, corporate and promo videos, and individual video greetings.
If you come across a complex text, you sometimes must tinker with punctuation and pronunciation. I'm also waiting for controlled gestures and emotions.
The maximum possible speed from idea to implementation. I came up with an idea, wrote the text, and generated and edited the video, so within an hour, a new video avatar was ready for my product.