Synthesia

Synthesia is a British AI video company founded in 2017 in London by Victor Riparbelli, Matthias Niessner, Lourdes Agapito and Steffen Tjerrild, a team with research backgrounds from Cambridge, UCL and TUM. The company builds software that lets organizations produce videos from text scripts using AI avatars and voices, removing the need for cameras, actors or film crews.

The platform offers more than 240 AI avatars and over 1,000 AI voices across 160-plus languages, alongside screen recording, AI dubbing and translation, brand templates and video analytics. It is used mainly by learning and development, sales, HR, marketing and IT teams to produce training, product and internal communication videos, with customers including SAP, Zoom, Reuters and Heineken.

1. AI avatars: Generates presenter-led videos from text using more than 240 digital avatars.

2. Multilingual voices: Provides over 1,000 AI voices across more than 160 languages.

3. AI dubbing: Translates and dubs existing videos into other languages while keeping lip sync.

4. Screen recording: Combines screen capture with AI narration for product and training videos.

5. Brand management: Applies organization-specific templates, logos and color schemes to videos.

6. Analytics: Tracks viewer engagement and completion rates for published videos.