Create free digital avatars
Generate realistic digital humans that perform your message.
- Prompt avatars to act, perform, and present in dynamic scenes
- Choose from 240+ ready-made avatars or create a digital twin of yourself
- Create, localize, and update videos without cameras or crews
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The best way to create realistic digital avatars
Create human-like digital avatars that act naturally, scale globally, and deliver your message without cameras, crews, or complexity.
Generate digital avatars that act
Create digital avatar videos where characters act in dynamic scenes.
- Prompt avatars to act, gesture, and perform actions within virtual environments
- Customize avatar appearance and backgrounds to match your brand and use case
- Produce dynamic video scenes without filming or manual editing
Use 240+ ready-made digital avatars
Make videos faster using realistic stock digital avatars.
- Choose avatars that gesture, move, and speak naturally on screen
- Deliver scripts with realistic lip sync and human-like delivery
- Keep viewers engaged with presenters that feel dynamic, not static
Build your own digital avatar
Create a digital twin that looks and sounds just like you.
- Turn a single recording into a reusable digital avatar
- Preserve your natural movement, voice, and delivery
- Scale your presence without being on camera
Deliver your message in any language
Reach global audiences without re recording or changing presenters.
- Generate multilingual videos without hiring translators or voice actors
- Keep the same avatar and voice in 160+ languages and accents
- Update content once and publish globally without duplicating work
How to create your own digital avatar
Make a digital twin of yourself that looks and sounds like you, ready to use across videos.
Sign up
Create a Synthesia account and choose Personal Avatar to start building your digital twin.
Record yourself
Record or upload short videos of yourself to capture your appearance, voice, and delivery.
Generate your digital twin
After submitting a short consent video, your digital avatar will be generated and ready to use within 24 hours.
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One platform for creating videos at scale
Brand Kit
Apply your brand consistently across videos by defining fonts, colors, logos, and preferred avatars.
AI Playground
Generate video assets using the latest AI models, all within one creative workspace.
Interactivity
Drive action and retention with interactive video elements like quizzes, CTAs and branching scenarios
Live collaboration
Create videos together with shared access, comments, and real time updates
Analytics
Understand viewer behavior with clear insights into views, watch time, and engagement.
Frequently asked questions about digital avatars
What is the best digital avatar tool?
Synthesia is the best tool for digital avatar creation because it offers the most advanced and realistic AI avatars available today. You can easily change an avatar’s outfit, background, and environment using simple prompts. Plus with Synthesia's Veo 3 integration, avatars can perform actions and interact within any scene, making them extremely dynamic and engaging.
How do I create a digital avatar?
In Synthesia there are several ways to create digital avatars. You can start with stock avatars, with over 240 ready-made avatars in different styles, ethnicities, and voices. For more flexibility, you can use customizable avatars, which let you change outfits, environments, and even prompt avatars to act and behave in dynamic scenes. You can also create a personal digital human version of yourself by uploading a short video and consent clip.
How do I create a digital avatar of myself?
To create your own digital avatar in Synthesia, first sign up and select “Personal Avatar” in the platform. Then, record or upload videos of yourself to train the AI on your likeness. After submitting a short consent video, your custom talking head avatar will be generated within 24 hours.
What is a digital avatar?
A digital avatar is an AI‑generated virtual human that can present and narrate your content in videos with realistic facial expressions and natural speech. It acts like a virtual presenter to engage viewers without needing real actors or cameras.
What are the benefits of digital avatars?
Using a virtual person in your content offers numerous benefits, including increased engagement, the ability to produce content without needing physical presence, and the opportunity to present information in a more interactive and personalized manner. Virtual persons can also be used across various platforms and media types, making your content versatile and innovative.
What types of content can I make with digital humans?
Digital avatars are ideal for training, marketing, onboarding, product explainers, internal communications, and more, replacing static text or slides with engaging video.
Are digital avatars safe and ethical?
Yes, Synthesia follows strict ethical and safety standards for digital avatars. Personal avatars are only created with explicit user consent, and every submission requires a consent video to verify identity and permission. The platform does not allow deepfakes, impersonation, or avatar creation without full authorization, ensuring responsible use of the technology.
Not just a digital avatar maker
Synthesia is an end-to-end AI video platform designed to help teams create effective videos faster, without the complexity of traditional production. Digital avatars are a powerful part of the experience, but they’re only one way to create and scale video content.
For example, create videos from scripts or use prompts to generate videos from any text. Narrate videos in your own voice with AI voice cloning and localize your content with AI video translation.
With realistic virtual avatars, built-in interactivity, brand controls, and collaborative workflows, Synthesia makes it easy to create, adapt, and share professional videos that communicate clearly and consistently at scale.
