Create Free Digital Avatars | AI Virtual & Digital Humans
The best way to create realistic digital avatars
Create human-like digital avatars that act naturally, scale globally, and deliver your message without cameras, crews, or complexity.
Generate digital avatars that act
Create digital avatar videos where characters act in dynamic scenes.
- Prompt avatars to act, gesture, and perform actions within virtual environments
- Customize avatar appearance and backgrounds to match your brand and use case
- Produce dynamic video scenes without filming or manual editing
Use 240+ ready-made digital avatars
Make videos faster using realistic stock digital avatars.
- Choose avatars that gesture, move, and speak naturally on screen
- Deliver scripts with realistic lip sync and human-like delivery
- Keep viewers engaged with presenters that feel dynamic, not static
Build your own digital avatar
Create a digital twin that looks and sounds just like you.
- Turn a single recording into a reusable digital avatar
- Preserve your natural movement, voice, and delivery
- Scale your presence without being on camera
Deliver your message in any language
Reach global audiences without re-recording or changing presenters.
- Generate multilingual videos without hiring translators or voice actors
- Keep the same avatar and voice in 160+ languages and accents
- Update content once and publish globally without duplicating work
How to create your own digital avatar
Make a digital twin of yourself that looks and sounds like you, ready to use across videos.
- Sign up
Create a Synthesia account and choose Personal Avatar to start building your digital twin. - Record yourself
Record or upload short videos of yourself to capture your appearance, voice, and delivery. - Generate your digital twin
After submitting a short consent video, your digital avatar will be generated and ready to use within 24 hours.
Why do training, marketing and sales leaders trust Synthesia?
Change Management
“It's enterprise-ready and makes video creation easy.”
Niraj Singh
Head of SAP Experience Garage
Sales enablement
"What used to take 4 hours now takes 30 minutes."
Rosalie Cutugno
Global Sales Enablement Lead
Operations training
"The platform is so easy to use and intuitive."
Frank Grijspaarde
Global TPM Manager
Internal communications
“We make videos fast and use them every day.”
Prashanth Poli
Group Data & AI Strategy Project Manager
Employee training
“Updating 10,000 courses? Totally doable now.”
Eva Bertone McGann
Senior Instructional Designer
Compliance training
"I don't need a third party anymore. I do it myself"
Tonya Braddock
Executive Director, L&D
Technical training
“50% faster content. Without sacrificing quality”
Miki Ishikawa
Director Learning Experience
Frequently asked questions about digital avatars
What is the best digital avatar tool?
Synthesia is the best tool for digital avatar creation because it offers the most advanced and realistic AI avatars available today. You can easily change an avatar’s outfit, background, and environment using simple prompts.
How do I create a digital avatar?
You can start with stock avatars, with over 240 ready-made avatars in different styles, ethnicities, and voices. For more flexibility, you can use customizable avatars, which let you change outfits, environments, and even prompt avatars to act and behave in dynamic scenes.
How do I create a digital avatar of myself?
To create your own digital avatar, first sign up and select “Personal Avatar” in the platform. Then, record or upload videos of yourself to train the AI on your likeness.
What is a digital avatar?
A digital avatar is an AI‑generated virtual human that can present and narrate your content in videos with realistic facial expressions and natural speech.
What are the benefits of digital avatars?
Using a virtual person in your content offers numerous benefits, including increased engagement and the ability to produce content without needing physical presence.
What types of content can I make with digital humans?
Digital avatars are ideal for training, marketing, onboarding, product explainers, and internal communications.
Are digital avatars safe and ethical?
Yes, Synthesia follows strict ethical and safety standards for digital avatars. Personal avatars are only created with explicit user consent.
Not just a digital avatar maker
Synthesia is an end-to-end AI video platform designed to help teams create effective videos faster, without the complexity of traditional production. Digital avatars are a powerful part of the experience, but they’re only one way to create and scale video content.