signalTechCrunch AI2026-09-27
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself, and you can talk to it
Synthesia, a video-generation startup valued at $4 billion with over $100 million in annual recurring revenue, created an interactive digital avatar of the author. The avatar is trained on the author's article and can answer questions, powered by voice-to-text, language, text-to-voice, and video models. It is part of Synthesia's offerings, including personal and interactive avatars.
- for who
- Journalists, PR professionals, and enterprises exploring interactive AI avatars
- what changes
- AI avatars become a practical tool for interactive communication, reducing repetitive tasks and enabling digital twins.
- to do
- Create your own interactive avatar with Synthesia to answer questions about your work.
key points
- Synthesia valued at $4 billion, ARR over $100 million
- Interactive avatar uses voice-to-text, language, text-to-voice, video models
- Author's avatar trained on her article, answers questions
#digital avatar#Synthesia#interactive AI
score
score 6 out of 10. 0-10: how dense the facts are, multiplied by how much you can do with them after reading. 8+ means the topic's evidence bar is met: benchmarks and availability for a new model, amount and investors for a funding round, revenue figures for a solo-money story. Below 5 an item does not enter the digest. A press release scores 3 or less, a reprint loses 2, anything older than 14 days loses 1, a headline that misleads loses 3.
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