A talking avatar creator is a high-engagement resource for videos, presentations, and live streams. Whether you need a video for sales, education, or employee onboarding, adding a human-talking avatar to your video can skyrocket viewers´ interest.
This leads to a better understanding and communication with your audience and provides invaluable feedback to adjust your overall strategy.
Many tools are available to create avatars, from emojis to cartoons, animators, and human avatars. In this article, we focus only on 2D talking avatar creators.
Below, we have listed our pick of the best ten platforms to create talking avatars. Check them out:
SitePal
SitePal is a talking avatar creator platform for human characters. The avatar can be published on web pages, blogs, emails, and PowerPoint. You can record your voice or use a powerful built-in text-to-speech technology in 25 languages.
SitePal goes a step beyond and offers an extensive lineup of male and female voice professionals. The company manages the whole production based on your instructions with a turnaround time of about three days.
You can choose full-body characters with natural movements matching audio and 3D photo face characters with incredible facial expressions. There are also 2D illustrated characters, premium characters, or custom characters made from a photograph or illustration.
This platform features AIMC, an AI-based tool to teach your character to respond to users´ questions with spoken answers. A text input field in your webpage can get visitors´ queries, and the AI-trained avatar will interact based on previous and automatic AI training.
SitePal pricing:
- Bronze plan: $99.50/year with 1,500 audio streams/month and two domains.
- Silver plan: $199.50/year with 4,000 audio streams/year with text-to-speech functionality and API.
- Gold plan: $399.50/year with 15,000 audio streams/year allows you to create your own photo face and artificial intelligence.
Free 15-day trial available.
Democreator
Democreator is a video editor and screen recorder that can be used as a talking avatar creator featuring AI virtual humans. This software tracks your jaw, ears, and eyes with machine learning.
When you talk into your mic, the talking avatar lip-syncs in real-time. There are 16 virtual humans available that you can use for teaching, gaming, product presentation, tutorials, and more.
This is a complete tool that includes a screen recorder, video editing, background scenes, voice-changing effects, and more features that help create a genuinely original video.
Check how this software works in this video:
Democreator pricing:
You can download Democreator for free with limited functionality. Otherwise, it costs $3.47 with a yearly plan or a $75 perpetual license.
Yepic Talking Photos
Yepic Talking Photos is a talking avatar creator with outstanding lip-synching quality. You have 40+ avatars to choose from, but you can upload your own pic to generate a unique avatar.
Yepic takes an intelligent approach to prevent another person's unauthorized use of your photo. You must upload a video to verify your identity, a simple and effective step to protect your privacy.
This platform works with 65+ languages and 450+ voices, but you can go further by uploading your voiceover.
Creating a talking avatar is quite straightforward; choose an avatar, input your text script (up to 4,000 characters), customize it with music, text, transitions, and backgrounds, click on "generate," and some minutes later, you get the video file.
Check how you can create a talking avatar with Yepic
Yepic pricing
- Standard plan: €29/month/user with 20 minutes/month, unlimited video storage, 500+ voices, premium voices, 65+ languages, voiceover upload, 10 slides per video, talking photos presenters.
- Plus plan: €79/month/user with 100 minutes/month, unlimited video storage, 500+ voices, premium voices, 65+ languages, voiceover upload, 10 slides per video, talking photo presenters, custom-generated AI presenters.
- Premium plan: €/month/user with 500 minutes/month, unlimited video storage, 500+ voices, premium voices, 65+ languages, voiceover upload, 10 slides per video, talking photo presenters, custom-generated AI presenters.
14 day free trial.
Creative Reality Studio
Creative Reality Studio is a talking avatar creator that uses AI to produce excellent videos. This platform goes the extra mile because you can generate an AI presenter from text input. You type "portrait of a female writer" (or whatever you wish), and the AI generates it in a snap.
There is also an exciting selection of photorealistic faces that you can use to make your own avatar. You can upload an image of your own face, a friend, or a relative's. Although this is interesting from the creative side, ethics play a substantial role here, and we would like to see some necessary agreement from the person (like Synthesia's explicit consent requirement for example)
To make your avatar talk, you must input a script up to 4,000 characters long and choose your language (there are hundreds available), voice, and voice style. Once you are done, you click on "generate video," and a few minutes later the video is available for sharing or downloading.
Check how it works in this video:
Creative Reality Studio pricing:
- Trial Plan: Free with 5 minutes to test the platform, premium and standard presenters with watermark.
- Lite Plan: $5.99/month with 10 minutes, standard presenters, 100 AI presenter generations with watermark.
- Pro Plan: $49.99/month with 15 minutes, premium and standard presenters with watermark.
- Enterprise Plan available.
Movio
Movio is a talking avatar creator that uses AI to create videos from text.
There are more than 80 avatars to choose from, with many styles, ages, and demographic features. These avatars can speak 20+ languages and accents. Still, you can also record and upload your own voice for a personalized experience.
A unique feature of this platform is its “Talking Photo” feature. You can take any photo and bring it to life by creating a video from text input.
Check it out:
Movio pricing:
- Free Plan: 1-minute free credit to test the platform.
- Essential Plan: Ranging from $30/month with 10 minutes video credit/month to $180/month with 90 minutes video credit/month.
- Pro Plan: Ranging from $225/month with 90 minutes video credits/month to $600/month with 240 video credits/month.
People Builder
This platform helps to create lifelike avatars and 2D avatars as well. The software allows selecting gestures and emotions; you can use text to speech or recorded audio from an MP3 file.
You can create content in any language. People Builder has an interesting lip-sync feature that is language-independent, and text-to-speech engines are available in many languages.
Some avatars can be fully customized using a proprietary API. You can change gender and type, hair, eyes, headwear, top, neckwear, over, bottom, and footwear. But suppose you need a particular character. In that case, this company provides a custom character service for building unique avatars. These can be accessed through their dedicated API.
People Builder pricing
Monthly subscription: $10/month
Free one-week trial available.
Voki
Voki is an online platform allowing users to create talking avatars for non-commercial use. There are dozens of avatars to choose from, and the platform works with a simple and clean drag-and-drop dashboard.
This software can read text input from students and even add their own voice to animations.
Voki pricing:
- Free plan: offers a basic character set of presenters.
- Level1 plan: $4.99/month for 30 studesnts, 1 teacher and 1 class.
- Level2 plan: $7.99/month for 60 students, 1 teacher and 2 classes
- Level3 plan: $9.99/month for 90 students, 1 teacher and 6 classes.
Crazytalk
Crazytalk is downloadable software available for Mac and PC. You can download it free and get a 30-day trial with hundreds of resources. This platform is aimed at experienced users, and the quality of video animations is excellent.
You can create 2D and 3D characters with 3D motion, including facial puppets and audio lip-syncing.
Crazytalk pricing:
Crazytalk offers a basic perpetual license at $159, but head maker, facial movements, and other features must be paid apart.
Elai.io
Elai.io uses AI to build videos with a human avatar using only text. You select an avatar, input a text script, and the software generates your video.
But Elai goes a step beyond similar solutions, and offers three exciting options for creating your custom talking avatar. You can create a selfie avatar using your phone and get your avatar in 3-5 business days. Then you can use it with any template available on the platform. This service costs $259 per year.
You can also create your cartoon talking avatar from a single photo, and the last option is a Studio avatar. This is a professional-looking talking avatar, and you will need professional equipment to record it and get up to 4K quality. This costs $500 per year.
Elai also offers voice cloning for an annual fee of $400. This feature integrates with Descript overdub.
Check this video to see how easy is to create a selfie avatar:
Elai.io pricing:
- Basic plan: $29/month with 15 mins/month and 23 avatars.
- Advanced plan: $99/month with 50 mins/month and 23 avatars.
- More plans available depending on monthly minutes.
Synthesia
A leader company in the human avatar business, Synthesia uses AI to create a video from a text script using human avatars.
This platform features 40+ avatars, and plans start at $30/month. If you are subscribed to a monthly plan, you can create a custom avatar of a real person. Each custom avatar requires the person's explicit consent, and once you submit footage, their team manages the whole creation process. It currently takes ten working days to get your custom avatar, but this service costs $1,000 a year.
Check how Synthesia created Messi´s avatar in this video:
Conclusion
The above are the best options for creating 2D human avatars in videos, web pages, or presentations. These tools have different approaches, starting with Movio free options to full-featured software like Synthesia.
If you need to create a video with a speaking character, check this article that lists several platforms featuring human presenters.
