📣 Introducing our newest addition to Synthesia, Expressive Avatars and Voices! 📣
With our new avatars, they are able to learn facial expressions and body movement in relation to the spoken content and the general sentiment behind it. Our avatars can then predict how they should emote and move based on any new script changes and its corresponding generated audio.
Our expressive avatars are more natural with a wider range of movement and the ability to express better sentiment based on the context of the script, allowing for more immersion within your video projects.
It is important to note that you are not able to create expressive custom Avatars.
Who are the new Avatars?
Our new avatars are as follows:
Alex
Talia
Julia
Jaz
Francesca
Joshua
Paloma
Ada
All our expressive avatars are available on Starter, Creator and Enterprise.
For our Freemium users you will only have access to Francesca, Jaz and Alex.
You are also able to customise some of our expressive avatars using the Avatar Builder. The following avatars can be used:
Alex
Joshua
Talia
Francesca
Jaz
Julia
Expressive Voices
With our brand new avatars, we also have matching voices, to help provide the best experience for your video projects.
With the new avatars, we recommend the following voices:
Alex: Alex - Melodic | en-US
Joshua: Joshua - Gentle | en-GB
Talia: Talia - Deep | en-GB
Julia: Julia - Gentle | en-GB
Jaz: Jaz - Breezy | en-US
Francesca: Francesca - Mature | en-US
Paloma: Paloma - Serene | en-GB
All our expressive voices will have a purple icon next to them as shown below.
All expressive voices are multilingual, in 28 languages :
🇺🇸 English (USA)
🇬🇧 English (UK)
🇯🇵 Japanese
🇨🇳 Chinese
🇩🇪 German
🇮🇳 Hindi
🇫🇷 French (France)
🇰🇷 Korean
🇧🇷 Portuguese (Brazil)
🇮🇹 Italian
🇲🇽 Spanish (Mexico)
🇮🇩 Indonesian
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇹🇷 Turkish
🇵🇭 Filipino
🇵🇱 Polish
🇸🇪 Swedish
🇧🇬 Bulgarian
🇷🇴 Romanian
🇸🇦 Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
🇨🇿 Czech
🇬🇷 Greek
🇫🇮 Finnish
🇭🇷 Croatian
🇲🇾 Malay
🇸🇰 Slovak
🇩🇰 Danish
🇮🇳 Tamil
🇺🇦 Ukrainian
What are some tips and tricks to triggers emotions?
Use expressive words
Enthusiasm/Positive: "Fantastic!", "Great job!", "Excited to learn today?"
Encouragement: "You're doing well!", "Keep it up!", "Almost there!"
Empathy: "I understand this can be challenging.", "It's okay to find this tricky."
Curiosity: "Have you wondered why...?", "What do you think about...?"
Use punctuation
Exclamation: use these to show excitement or urgency. "Well done!"
Question marks: show curiosity or request feedback. "What are your thoughts?"
Ellipsis: can create a pause for effect or indicate uncertainty. "And the answer is...?"
Old school emoji
Happy: ":)" or ":-)" can make the message seem friendly.
Sad: ":(" or ":-(" can express sympathy or disappointment.
FAQs
Q: Are we still continuing to release V3 stock Avatars?
A: Our focus will now be on releasing only Expressive avatars.
Q: If I want to use another English voice (not the recommended one), does the sentiment prediction work?
A: Our expressive avatar will work with any English voice. However, we highly recommend you to use the matching voice to provide you with the best result.
Q: Will Synthesia be retiring our older Avatars?
We may retire some older/lower quality avatars from the platform going forward. If we do it, we’ll communicate to users ahead of time.