Synthesia — Generate professional-looking AI videos from text in minutes

For now I cannot get it to work. I have signed up for the $30 Personal account, but anytime I create a simple video and try to save it I get an undefined "something went wrong" error. I have already reported it and am looking yet to see whether I can get beyond this frustrating point. Video: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/...?

Okay this is pretty wild, what areas could you see this being especially useful? I'm thinking government messaging especially during COVID

Super dope stuff. I have messaged my use case hope I get the access soon to try out. Can I know your charges?

I greeted Synthesia enthusiastically, as this is, a truly revolutionary technology that can help solve lots of situations while being highly cost-effective. After a few days as a paying customer, I still think the above, but I have realized I have been tricked into paying for a tech that it is NOT ready for prime time. In synthesis, you cannot reliably use all of the voices being offered and on many of them you cannot use pause commands during the speech, which are 100% essential to make them sound realistic. Furthermore, certain voices available like Italian "original" sound totally artificial and have no resemblance to the quality of the samples being shown on the official site. As soon as I signed up for a paid account I reported a critical bug that prevented saving any video when using pauses commands. I was publicly told, here on PH by Synthesia that I had found a bug and that it would be fixed within minutes. Two days later I am back reporting that specific voices, including the one they had fixed the day before, are NOT working anymore if I use pause commands and I cannot save videos with the voices I want. To this, first I got no response for 24 hours from their support, then after soliciting again, they have responded the following: "...this functionality currently works only with some of our voices. They usually have "Natural", "Original" and "Default" in their name. Other voices will output an error if you try to add an SSML tag." "It's unfortunate, but **we can't do anything about it right now as we use different underlying providers for voices**. And some support it and some don't. Over time more and more will support it though. The first issue though - that you sent the video from. It's a similar issue with our voice providers, the best is simply to try later. We are doing what we can to pressure them on fixing their things." Would you pay $30/mo for an unreliable service that does not match its landing page claims and that tells you all of the above privately and not before you pay for the service? I am outraged. To add insult to this mess I find it completely senseless that a tool which is not quite ready yet charges for the number of videos you produce independently of whether you download/use them or not. I don't see how can one test and train himself without doing this. $30/mo for not even been able to produce test videos looks to me as a bad proposition. Finally, I think that the catalog of virtual actors, made exception for Nadia, really sucks. The other virtual actors do not look very professional at all, there is a lack of white people and I am just stuck with only character that would be appropriate for my audience type.

This is super impressive! The audio doesn't sound robotic at all, and having the ability to translate the same generated video in multiple languages ca really help me expand our ads to new markets and get a foot in the door before we can launch there. I found out about the company almost a year ago when they had a campaign with David Beckham, and it's impressive how fast they were able to package everything in a fully functional product... Congrats to the whole team! ps: are you working on different voice packages yet? Or is audio not your main focus right now?

If it's this good now, I can only imagine how life-like it will be in just a few short years...congrats on your work to date!

Hey there hunters! 👋 Make your own AI video here: https://www.synthesia.io/request... When we founded Synthesia almost three years ago we had a vision to make it easier to create video content for everyone. But not just a little easier; our goal was to introduce a paradigm shift in how we think about media production from something we record with cameras to something we program with computers. Today is a special moment on our journey as we launch what was once a fragile dream – a self-service platform that could transform text to a realistically looking video in minutes. It took a lot of tears, sweat, long nights, semi-manual projects and blue-sky R&D to get to this point. This product is still in public beta. But we’re really excited to see Fortune 500 companies and even small startups already using it for all sorts of purposes and unleashing previously untapped creativity with video. And we're just at the beginning. The media production pipeline is being reinvented, driven by the ability of neural networks to imitate the real world. In 10 years bedroom directors will be able to create Hollywood films on their laptops. If you're interested in our long-term vision, have a read here: [https://medium.com/@vriparbelli/...] Feel free to ask me and the Synthesia team anything here!

Hey, congrats with the launch! I can see this being used for so many applications - do you maybe have an API in plans?

Wow, this seems epic. Especially I can see it being used for personalized videos at scale. Can you also use your own presenter - eg. people from our customer success team?

Congrats to the whole team on the launch! All that hard work seems to be paying off, the app looking amazing. Synthetic media is the future 🚀

This is pretty incredible technology that can significantly reduce costs of video production and localization. Great launch!

Just received the video I created as a marketing statement, but the expression of the statements made by the bot does not fit the context at all. The AI needs to understand the context lot better, needs more training.

Requested a trial video to test it but the video provided has a background containing information about COVID which doesn't apply here in Scotland. Government advice here is to work from home so the video provided can't be used unfortunately as it has info which doesn't apply here.

Great stuff Victor. ?makers - what is Synthesia's ability to handle non-English languages at this time?

This looks great! Had a play with it. Still early days I suppose but the future looks exciting/scary :)) Good job everyone!

Congrats to the whole team, looks really exciting! Seems like your "actors" can speak different languages... How many languages do you support?

Excited to see you guys launch this, nice work Victor and team! Love the UX and vision statement too :) Since a lot of comments are asking about voice - that can be done by integrating with our AI voice actors. https://www.producthunt.com/post...

You should offer the ability to define the way the actor ends the sentence...(smiling, questioning, intonation up/down) - this would add a huge realism to the end result as it can sometimes feel a bit flat otherwise

That's seriously awesome. 2 questions... 1- What does pricing look like? I generally avoid products that don't display pricing of some sort. Only because most of the time there's a bit of a catch. 2- I saw that you said you're working on uploading your own voice. How close are things to being able to do this with your own person? For instance, I do courses and it would be nice to have my team able to create some of those for me potentially. Not sure what that looks like on our end, but it's seriously cool!

Ah brilliant. Love the videos you guys have put out on LinkedIn. Meet some of the team at Web Summit last year, had seen the product somewhere else before that. Had a good old natter about the product that day —albeit my voice was pretty much gone at point of the event. Great to see the launch here.