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Synthesia & AI Video Avatars

This course teaches teams to produce talking-head and training videos with AI avatars in Synthesia. Learners work with avatars and voices, turn scripts into video, use templates, and localize content. They leave able to create video at scale without a studio.

What this course covers

The course runs across 8 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

  • Introduction to Synthesia and AI Video Design — Explore the Synthesia dashboard, understand the capabilities of AI avatars, and learn the basic workflow of turning a script into a video.
  • Selecting and Customizing Avatars and Voices — Learn how to choose the right avatar for your target audience, adjust framing (close-up, circle, body), and select and preview natural AI voices and accents.
  • Writing and Formatting Video Scripts — Discover best practices for writing scripts optimized for AI text-to-speech, including using pronunciation hints, pauses, and SSML tags to control pacing.
  • Creating Your First Video with Templates — Select a training or talking-head template, insert your script, customize text placeholders, and align on-screen visual elements with the avatar's speech.
  • Adding Media, Transitions, and Branding — Enhance your video by uploading custom brand assets, inserting background music, adding screen recordings, and applying smooth slide transitions.
  • Localizing Content with Multi-Language Translation — Translate your video into multiple languages with a single click, fine-tune localized voiceovers, and adjust on-screen text to fit different regional contexts.
  • Rendering, Exporting, and Sharing at Scale — Understand the rendering process, export your final video in the correct resolution, and use sharing links or embed codes to distribute your content.
  • Hands-On Capstone: Build a Training Video — Apply everything you have learned to build, translate, and export a complete 1-minute training video from scratch using a provided script prompt.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick. This course maps to Critical Thinking, Content Strategy, Generative AI Concepts, AI Ethics, Data Analysis.

  • Critical Thinking
  • Content Strategy
  • Generative AI Concepts
  • AI Ethics
  • Data Analysis

Who it is for

L&D, marketing, comms. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 90 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Synthesia track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

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Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 90 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code TUL-SYN-101.