Synthesia
Synthesia is the fastest way to turn a script into a polished presenter video, ideal for training and onboarding content.
Synthesia is purpose-built for talking-head corporate and training video — turning a script into a polished presenter video in minutes. Automatic dubbing and translation across 140-plus languages let a single script produce localized videos for multiple regions without re-filming anything, and custom avatar creation on paid tiers lets a company build a video presenter styled after a real team member, with consent-based training.
Avatars and voice quality are impressively natural for straightforward narration, though close-up scrutiny still reveals some synthetic tells. For the training and onboarding content it's designed for, viewers rarely mistake quality for the limiting factor, and the built-in AI script assistant helps smooth out the kind of stiff, overly formal phrasing that can otherwise make narration-style scripts feel robotic when read aloud by an avatar.
The script-to-video workflow is about as simple as this category gets — paste a script, pick an avatar, and generate. Templates for common use cases like onboarding and compliance training speed up layout further, and there's no filming, lighting, or audio equipment to manage at any point in the process.
Starter is $29/mo for a set number of minutes; a free plan with 3 minutes/mo is enough to evaluate quality first. Higher tiers raise the monthly minute allowance and unlock custom avatar creation, and enterprise pricing with API access suits organizations generating training content at scale across many departments or product lines.
It's optimized for narration-style content rather than creative storytelling, and cost scales with total video minutes produced. Avatars still read as slightly synthetic under close scrutiny, which matters less for internal training content than it would for customer-facing brand marketing, where Runway's more cinematic generation approach is usually the better fit.
- 1Create an account
Sign up at synthesia.io — the free plan includes 3 minutes of video per month.
- 2Write or paste a script
Enter the script you want narrated, or generate one with the built-in AI script assistant.
- 3Choose an avatar and voice
Pick from 200+ stock avatars and voices, or create a custom avatar on paid tiers.
- 4Select a template
Use a template suited to training, onboarding, or marketing content to speed up layout.
- 5Generate and export
Render the video, then download or share it directly — translation to other languages is one click away.