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Synthesia

Score8.4 out of 10

27 Reviews and Ratings

What is Synthesia?

Synthesia is an AI video generation platform that can be used by companies to turn boring docs, PowerPoints or PDFs into more engaging training, marketing or how-to videos.

Categories & Use Cases

Your explanatory videos ally.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Synthesia to create explanatory videos for our digital courses. We offer digital courses and they are organized by sections and lessons. Each lesson explains a different topic. We have different types of lessons (text, graphics, video, quizzes, etc). We use Synthesia to create the video for our video lessons.

Pros

  • Helps organize the content of your video
  • Creates animated narrators for your videos
  • Assist you in creating the video using AI

Cons

  • We like the avatars in general, but the mouths move in a weird way and you can tell you are seeing an animation done by AI because of that.
  • Most of the stock footage they have has a watermark. Most of the time I've imported it from somewhere else.
  • NA

Return on Investment

  • Improved student retention. Don't have the numbers, but having more videos (done in Synthesia) helped retaining the student's atention.
  • We created videos for YouTube using Synthesia, wich ended up in more sales.
  • We created trailers for each course using Synthesia, they are placed in our website giving an overview of each course.

Usability

Other Software Used

Teachable, SuperSaaS, Splashtop

Quick AI Content Development

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Creating internal training videos to deliver on the LMS, and easily translating for global audiences

Pros

  • AI content development
  • Customer support
  • Enhancements

Cons

  • Cost
  • AI voice match to avatar
  • Realness in avatar personality

Return on Investment

  • Compliance training
  • Translation costs

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Articulate 360

Other Software Used

Articulate 360, Litmos, OpenSesame

Unquestionably the Best Corporate Training Product I've Ever Used

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

After 12+ years of creating corporate training, this is unequivocally the best training product I've ever used. Here's why:

• Engaging customer service: The knowledgeable and enthusiastic employees provide exceptional assistance.
• Easy-to-learn user interface: It’s fun to use and play with, thanks to its simplicity.
• Plentiful, high-quality learning material: Step-by-step training videos supplement the already comprehensive program.
• Reasonable pricing: Considering its industry-leading features and resources, it offers great value.

All these reasons are why, for me, it was easy to choose this for my go-to corporate training video creation tool.

Pros

  • Engaging customer service
  • Easy-to-learn user interface
  • Plentiful, high-quality learning materia

Cons

  • Continue to invest in AI

Most Important Features

  • Avatar technology
  • Text to Voice capabilities

Return on Investment

  • Quicker turn-around on video creation

Other Software Used

Litmos