Synthesia

RATING:

4.7

(136)

About Synthesia

Synthesia is an AI video creation app that makes it easy to create professional videos without any expensive hardware or editing skills. With Synthesia, you can create videos with just an idea and a script. Type it in, and watch as Synthesia transforms your words into a dynamic video starring life-like AI characters. No need to worry about finding on-screen talent, setting up cameras, or booking studios. Synthesia also allows you to add a personal touch by choosing from a range of Avatars to star in your video, each capable of speaking 120+ languages. Synthesia's text-to-speech technology also gives your AI characters natural-sounding voices in different languages and accents. Synthesia's user-friendly editing tools enable you to edit, crop, trim, add subtitles or...

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2023
Software Advice's FrontRunners report ranks top products based on user reviews, which helps businesses find the right software.

Synthesia Pricing

Starting price: 

$29.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Synthesia Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Synthesia

1 - 5 of 133 Reviews

User Profile

Daria

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2023

Great tool, highly recommend

Now that I use Synthesia I produce many more videos than I ever did before. I find that customers / potential customers find our video content much more engaging than simply images, so being able to create even short videos quickly is a huge advantage. In the past, I would sometimes opt for non-video content simply because there's no time or resources to do otherwise. With Synthesia this is not a problem. Overall, I am an absolute fan of Synthesia and I highly recommend it.

PROS

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.

CONS

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.

Reason for choosing Synthesia

Actually, I did not so much choose Synthesia over the alternative products, it's just that I use Synthesia for most video creation now and leave other types of video content creation to tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro. I still need other tools but for 70% of what I need in terms of video I can now do with Synthesia.

Susan aka Sparky

Professional Training & Coaching, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2023

Gotta Love It!

I do all my lessons builds through Synthesia - it is the core of my digital product. At one point my own Avatar went missing and the service was unbelievable; empathetic, willing to do what it takes to help me as it was being fixed, and then it was resolved. You’ve got to love that a someone having your back when things go sideways.

PROS

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.

CONS

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.

Reason for choosing Synthesia

As mentioned above

Reasons for switching to 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.

Stuart

E-Learning, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed April 2024

Very good at creating instructional video

PROS

The ability to create an instructional video in a customisable background, in a short space of time.

CONS

It is a little limited, i would like if we could have the characters face away from the screen or move

Zack

Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2024

Great Tool

PROS

Super easy to jump in and get going. Being able to quickly make high quality content saves a ton of time.

CONS

Waiting for the audio to preview and having to diction a lot of words slows it down.

Tina

E-Learning, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2024

Best avatar tool!

I love Synthesia, it is easy to use and the results are amazing!

PROS

Customer friendly, easy to use, variety of avatars.

CONS

I would like to be able to add more avatars to the same video, just by copying them into the template.