Today, London-based Synthesia, a startup that enables enterprises to create professional-grade AI videos, announced a major update for its platform, aimed at providing a well-rounded suite for accelerating their video-first communication initiatives. Officially dubbed Synthesia 2.0, the update introduces several key capabilities, including full-body avatars capable of making a range of motions and an interactive video experience that will allow users to create AI videos with elements users can engage with, like a calendar or form. It also announced a new AI screen recorder that can simplify how companies create how-to videos for their workforce, among other content. The Interactive Avatar development follows the announcement of expressive avatars from Synthesia. However, it is important to note that not all features will debut right away. Some capabilities will launch next month, while others will roll out over the coming months. Back in 2017, a team of AI researchers and entrepreneurs from Stanford, Technical University of Munich and Cambridge came together to start Synthesia. The goal was simple: give businesses a fast-tracked way to move away from monotonous text-based content to more engaging and captivating video content. Over the years, they developed an end-to-end platform where enterprises can create custom AI voices and avatars (they can even choose from existing ones) and combine them with pre-written or AI-produced scripts to generate AI videos.Fast forward to today: Synthesia has been adopted by more than 55,000 businesses, including Zoom, Dupont, Heineken and Electrolux. The company has also extensively enhanced its AI avatars, making them more realistic and emotive. Just a few weeks ago, it debuted a new Express-1 model that enables the avatars to understand the context and sentiment in a piece of text and change their tone and facial expressions to deliver Interactive Avatar the speech.With the latest update, the company is continuing the work Interactive Avatar on its avatars. Essentially, to enhance the storytelling aspect of the digital characters, the company is expanding their range of motion. This will enhance the personalities of the avatars, enabling th……

Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this, share it with a friend or colleague, or you can follow me on Twitter @SashaKaletsky. Thanks to Adam Turaev (Praktika CEO) for his feedback on this post. You have probably heard that screens are addictive. Maybe you’ve even expressed that view yourself. But have you asked yourself the logical next question: what are you actually looking at on your screens?  The answer for most people, most of the time, is human faces. TikTok feed? Mostly faces. Instagram? Faces. Sports game? Close-up on the players’ faces after every key moment. Dating apps? 99% faces. From an evolutionary perspective this makes sense. A homo erectus more preoccupied by a nearby cloud, insect or rock than their fellow hominids, would not last very long. (My undergraduate degree was in human sciences, so I been making unprovable claims about this sort of thing for almost 15 years). So imagine if there was a way for a product to make a face an application’s whole interface. You just imagined interactive avatars. At Creator Ventures, we believe that interactive avatars are the next interface. We are proud to have recently led the $2.5m seed round of avatar-based English language learning app Praktika, followed by their $30m Series A with Blossom Capital. They now have over a million users and are already one of the largest avatar companies in the world (as well as the best team). We have also previously invested in a number of other companies that are building tools for avatars, including ElevenLabs and Sync Labs, and our ambition is to be invested in as many of the leaders Interactive Avatar in interactive avatar components, across the technology stack, as we can. So clearly we are bullish. This article will explain why. When most people think of avatars, they might think of talking head videos, looking squarely at the screen, perhaps with a nodding head and gesturing hands. There are many amazing founders working on those types of video avatars, and I’m sure the opportunity is big, particularly in L&D, sales enablement, video translation and some forms of marketing. It’s an interesting space. But that is not what this specific thes……

Digital engagement is changing by AI. One of recent trending changes is applying an interactive avatar that responds to your audiences like a real human. By imitating human gesture movements, lip syncing and even eye contacts, AI interactive avatars can turn a normal video into a more engaging live stream like videos, which will make your channels stand out from other competitors.As a video creator, you may be a YouTuber, a gaming streamer, a customer service representative, or others, regardless of your role, it’s time for you to have a new try. And this guide will show you specific procedures to build an interactive AI digital avatar.An interactive avatar is a digital human that can interact with audiences in real time and is frequently driven by artificial intelligence. It’s embedded with multiple AI algorithms such as image and motion captures, facial analysis, and natural language processing (NLP) to react to viewers like a real human.This kind of AI avatar is not restricted to a single image, rather it receives inputs from the user, thus making the experience quite engaging. Conversations with users feel more organic and seamless because, for instance, they can interpret speech cues and facial emotions and react appropriately.A greater connection between producers and their audience can be established by Vtubers, streamers, and YouTubers with the use of interactive avatars. An excellent illustration of this is a gaming streamer who improves the audiences’ overall viewing experience by entertaining and answering to live comments with an interactive AI digital avatar.For customer support needs, interactive avatars help to offer round-the-clock assistance without requiring 7/24 human assistance.For game developers, using an effective NPC generator can craft AI interactive avatars fast, which will save lots of time and cost.Using AI interactive avatars will improve your audiences’ experience. Your audiences can leave comments and get replies soon. For viewers in other countries, interactive avatars will speak like a local native. So you may reach out to global audiences.Interactive avatars work well on different uses. Streamers prefer ……