What is the educational promise of AI avatars?

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Can AI-powered avatars replace human trainers?

The main upside is reducing effort of creating a training video which could cost anything from $300 - $1000 for the typical talking head videos

Went through a few resources on “future of learning” when it comes to integrating AI to expedite content creation:

Have you tried using apps like Synthesia (AI avatars) for teaching and learning?
How did it go? Would love your thoughts!

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Hosting a discussion on 29 Apr, 4pm over Zoom:

Hope you see you there :slight_smile:

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AI talking avatars day 1. Creating my own learning roadmap in the… | by Kahhow | String | Apr, 2025 | Medium experiments using synthesia.io

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Technical Architecture for About Digital Avatar Conversational Systems | by Kahhow | String | Apr, 2025 | Medium day 2: unpacking systems architecture diagrams and some repositories/ libraries like CosyVoice2, Linly-Talker and bonus: DanteAI (the latter is just AI chatbot, not talking heads per se)

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Creating a digital replica. AI Digital Avatar Day 3: Tutorial on… | by Kahhow | Apr, 2025 | Medium day 3: creating a digital replica using elevenlabs and heygen. The initial voice outputs were not fantastic and am working on a “professional” studio clone (requiring 30mins of audio input). Will it sound and look authentic?

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Day 4 output - created an AI replica with a good deal of realism with relatively low effort: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrvSK4V9/ voice mirror for shorter videos made more sense but defeats the purpose. I had troubles using the professional voice clone (30min of audio input).

Initial voice clones from 30s of input actually failed to capture nuances as easily as what other tutorial videos suggested!