Hour One vs Synthesia

Synthesia or Hour One – which one offers better voices?

Synthesia and Hour One both offer text-to-speech voiceovers as part of their platforms. Synthesia currently supports 130+ languages and Hour One supports 80+ languages.  

Both Synthesia and Hour One offer auto-captioning and video translation, which simplifies the process for users to create scripts and captions for videos in multiple languages.

Additionally, Synthesia offers custom voice cloning for text-to-speech voiceovers, as well as custom audio uploads for voiceovers. Neither features are available at Hour One.

Making videos with Synthesia

Synthesia, in turn, offers a lot of features that any modern video editor includes: a screen recorder, animations, transitions, PPT uploads, as well as aspect ratios and analytics.

Making videos with Hour One

As a video editing tool, Reals by Hour One offers very limited options for video editing & customization. Reals currently does not support element animations, transitions, or screen recordings, although it does allow PPT uploads. Even with the limited video editing features, the rendering time is slightly slower than Synthesia.

Want to add multimedia?

Synthesia and Hour One offer similar options for stock media, like music, images, and videos, as well as the option to upload your own media.

Hour One does offer more stock music options than Synthesia, but does not include stickers or GIFs.

Do both platforms offer templates?

While both tools offer pre-designed video templates, Synthesia's selection is significantly bigger.

However, Hour One stands out with its automated template color pallete feature, which is currently unavailable in Synthesia.

Synthesia's security & ethics

In contrast, Synthesia has a strict content moderation policy (automated & manual), as well as SSO. The platform recently became SOC 2 Type II certified.

Hour One's security & ethics

Hour One does offer content moderation. However, upon testing, the content moderation system seems to be subpar, allowing profane content to slip through.

With regards to the security of the platform itself, Hour One does seem to offer SSO and is SOC 2 Type II compliant.

How does the customer service compare?

Looking at the most trusted software rating platform (G2), ratings for Synthesia are excellent - 4.7/5 with over 1100 reviews. Hour One is currently rated at 4.5/5 with 100 reviews.

With regards to customer support, Synthesia offers support for all users both by chat and email, whereas Hour One's support is currently offered to Enterprise users only.

Both Synthesia and Hour One also have dedicated Customer Success Managers (CSMs) for Corporate/Enterprise plan users.

Other reasons to choose Synthesia

Synthesia is a comprehensive platform that offers a range of features, including a Knowledge Base for any questions about the platform, Synthesia Academy for simple tutorials and beginner courses with in-house L&D experts, and Integrations with 35+ tools.

Additionally, Synthesia recently launched an Examples page, that showcases real examples of videos made in Synthesia. The video can be cloned and adjusted to individual needs. Lastly, you can find a list of Service Providers to help with your video needs.

Other reasons to choose Hour One

In comparison, Hour One has fewer features, not even a Knowledge Base to answer commonly asked questions. It does, however, have a few integrations, which mainly focus on the ability to share the videos on social media.