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Meet Express-3, our most lifelike avatar yet

Our best avatar model to date — sharper, faster, and more expressive, live for every user on every plan.

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Avatars are the face of every Synthesia video, so we rebuilt the model behind them. Express-3 is our next-generation avatar rendering technology, and it's replacing Express-2 across the platform.

What's new

  • Avatars respond to your script's sentiment: performances shift between happy, serious, neutral, and friendly, depending on the context of what's being said.
  • Sharper visuals and better lip sync: faces render more clearly, and mouth movements track speech more precisely.
  • More natural body motion: gestures are more varied and better aligned with the script, with far fewer eye-gaze issues.
  • Faster video generation: get your videos rendered up to twice as fast.
  • New: build your own avatar: use Avatar Builder to create a custom avatar — realistic or stylized — from a starter concept, panel controls, or a text prompt, then create videos in that avatar's style.

Express-1 avatars aren't affected by this change. For more on building a custom avatar with this technology, check out our documentation.

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