London-based AI startup Synthesia has released a major update to its platform, Synthesia 2.0, aiming to provide enterprises with a comprehensive video communication solution. The update brings a number of highlights, including full-body avatars capable of a variety of movements, interactive video experiences, and AI screen recording tools that simplify enterprise content creation. Synthesia 2.0 is not a one-time comprehensive update. Some functions will be launched in the next few months to gradually improve the platform functions and bring a richer experience to users.
Synthesia 2.0 is officially launched, introducing several key features, including full-body avatars capable of various movements and interactive video experiences. Additionally, a new AI screen recording tool was announced that will simplify the process for businesses to create content such as how-to guides for their employees. This development is another major update following Synthesia's announcement of expressive avatars. However, it’s important to note that not all features will be available immediately. Some features will launch next month, while others will roll out over the coming months.
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The next step is to improve corporate communications
Back in 2017, a team of AI researchers and entrepreneurs from Stanford University, Technical University of Munich, and Cambridge University co-founded Synthesia. The goal is simple: provide businesses with a way to quickly move away from monotonous text-based content and toward more compelling and engaging video content. Over the years, they have developed an end-to-end platform where businesses can create custom AI voices and avatars (even choose from existing avatars) and combine them with pre-written or AI-powered avatars. The generated scripts are combined to generate AI videos.
Today, Synthesia is used by more than 55,000 companies, including Zoom, DuPont, Heineken and Electrolux. The company has also significantly enhanced its AI avatars, making them more realistic and expressive. Just a few weeks ago, it launched a new Express-1 model that enables avatars to understand context and emotion in text and change their intonation and facial expressions to convey what is being said.
With the latest update, the company is continuing to improve its avatars. Basically, to enhance the narrative capabilities of digital characters, the company is expanding their range of actions. This will enhance the personality of virtual characters, allowing them to tell compelling stories using the full range of body language available to humans, including hand movements.
According to Dan-Vlad Cobasnianou, Synthesia’s head of product marketing, the improved avatars were created by collecting data from thousands of people around the world to train multiple large video and audio base models. . He added that the avatars will also be fully controllable: users can specify the avatar's appearance through images and videos and create animations using skeletal sequences, but that's only part of the avatar upgrade.
Synthesia also enhances users' ability to create personal AI avatars by allowing them to use their webcam or phone camera alongside a natural background. Company CEO Victor Ripalbelli said this is particularly useful when users want to look more realistic, such as when doing tutorials. Recorded personal avatars will also have better lip synchronization and more natural speech, with the ability to translate speech into more than 30 languages.
Highlight:
⭐Synthesia releases new version 2.0, launching interactive videos and full-body avatars.
⭐The updated avatar has more body language, strengthening the narrative ability of the digital character.
⭐New interactive video experience allows users to create interactive video content, as well as the launch of AI screen recording tools.
The update of Synthesia 2.0 marks another leap in AI video generation technology, bringing more possibilities to corporate communications. In the future, Synthesia will continue to improve to provide users with more convenient and powerful AI video creation tools.