Product Updates

• Avatar looks. Now, you can create endless styles and looks for your avatar.
• 50+ new avatars and 400+ new looks.
• Photo Avatar 3.0 generates dynamic facial expressions and body movements according to your script.
• 700+ new voices from ElevenLabs.

• Simplified sign-in for account access.
• Pixabay and Pexels free royalty assets.
• Enhanced avatar voice selection.
• AI support agent: Manage customer support and interactions.

• SCORM Videos are now available on the Synthesia platform.

• 100+ new stock avatars.
• Instant custom avatars and dream avatars (talking photos) are now available.

• AI Clip maker. Now, you can repurpose long videos into short clips.

 

• Avatar 3.0 introduces avatar expressions and motions that match the tone of the script.
• New avatars in different camera angles and outfits.
• Custom voices can now include emotions.
• Various improvements on video translation.

• New workspaces feature for collaborative editing.

• Multilingual video player can now allow viewers to watch videos in their preferred languages.
• New Chrome extension for full-featured screen recording.

• Kreado now has 450+ diverse avatars in different scenes.

 

• Now, you can get notifications about the video process request via API.
• Updated video player with clearer design.
• Updated screen recording design that also allows to preview recordings with narrations.

• Eleven new expressive avatars in different framings.
• Apply your brand kit automatically. This allows to transform docs, decks, and links into branded videos with AI assistance.

• Adds transition effects.
• Animation effects. You can add entry and exit effects to text, images, and more elements.
• New editing feature. You can edit videos on the platform with no need to go for external tools.

• Now HeyGen can create videos from PPTs and PDFs.
• Dashboard update with minor improvements.
• Free instant avatar for users on the Free Plan.

 

Akool launches streaming avatars.

This is a game-changing feature that allows real-time integration with customizable avatars. You can also chat with the streaming avatar using voice input for a natural and engaging experience.

HourOne adds many improvements to its web platform.

Global pronunciation, multi-file actions for drafts, workspace sections, improved media library management, and trash access. Six new mobile templates for fast video creation.

Synthesia adds personal avatars.

Now, you can create your digital twin in five minutes. It can look and speak like you, be recorded from different angles, use hand gestures, and speak more than 29 languages.

Colossyan launches language variant export and content library.

Now, you can export different language variants as new drafts and easily change the avatar, script, or any other content in a single language variant.

You can now easily manage all the images, videos and logos across your workspaces using the content library.

• HeyGen raises $60M series A funding. Good news to accelerate the roadmap for better videos, with better privacy, security, and AI ethics.

• Improved video quality.
• Real-time streaming avatars.
• Personalized videos at scale.
• Terms of service.

• 60 new voices.
• Voice pitch and speed control.
• Many voices and pronunciation improvements.

Synthesia introduces a significant update:

• Expressive avatars.
• Live collaboration.
• Multilingual video player.
• Personal avatars.
• AI video assistant.
• Multiple avatars in a scene can now maintain dialogues.

• 40+ new realistic avatars.
• Subtitle generation and recognition in 140+ languages.

• Markers are now triggers: Now, you can smoothly and easily animate texts, elements, media, and avatars based on the script.

 

• Pronunciation: Now, you can adjust phonemes in each word for better pronunciation.
• Conversation mode: This new feature allows you to set multiple avatars on one scene.

 

• You can now share a video link with users for free.
• Multi-factor authentication is now available for Enterprise users, a useful feature for enhanced security.
• Four new languages are available for translation draft: Tagalog, Romanian, Indonesian, and Swahili.
• Mass personalized video creation: Now, you can import your data from a CSV file and create batch videos at scale.

 

Instant Highlights

• Instant Highlights is a beta feature that uses AI to automatically curate the most captivating moments from your long video to create short highlight reels.

Platform improvements and new features

Hour One has a new dashboard design. Now you can make a video from URL and upload your own music.

PowerPoint import

Now you can import Power Point presentations into Virbo using a drag-and-drop selection or file selection to import slides. This enables to add AI avatars to your presentation for better engagement.

 

Expressive avatars are now live

Specific avatars and voices can be "expressive" This means they understand the content and convey the intended emotion through tone, body language, and lip-syncing.

 

Workspaces, folders, hand gestures and interactivity

Colossyan has launched a major update, which brings exciting new tools. Workspaces allow you to add comments and speed up feedback without the need for an external app. Folders now let you manage a dedicated space for your projects. Interactive quizzes mean that viewers are no longer passive; interaction adds a new layer to the platform. Hand gestures make it possible to control how avatars move their hands, which is an exciting and unique Colossyan feature.

 

HeyGen introduces new 5.0 Platform Update, streaming avatars

HeyGen launches a new platform update, with many improvements to enhance usability. The new streaming avatar feature allows for real-time interactions with viewers during live chats or streaming sessions.

 

SOC 2 Type II Compliance

Elai has achieved SOC2 Type II compliance, which marks a significant step towards a more secure environment.

 

Face Swap Feature, 8 new avatars

KreadoAI adds Face Swap feature to videos, a new tool which you can use by simple drag-and-drop. Additionally, there are eight new avatars available.

New Video Agents

Video agents are real-time avatars that can interact with your customers in various contexts. You can use them as chatbots for customer service, e-learning tutors or many similar actions. These can be connected to ChatGPT, Llama or any other similar engine. This is opens a bunch of new options for Yepic users.

 

 

New improvements, features and templates

Hour One adds "Boost rendering" with your cloud provider, a unique feature to improve rendering time. Video editor improvement, multiple avatarr videos, multi-lingual voices and 7 new templates.

 

New interactivity features

Elai is the first AI video avatar company in the market to introduce interactivity workflows. This includes interactive quizzes, branching, buttons, links, clickable elements and chapter. These open exciting possibilities to engage viewers within videos created with Elai.

 

Live collaboration

Synthesia now offers live collaboration for corporate users. Teammates can now comment and provide feedback without needing an external review tool.