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AI · September 17, 2020

Synthesia

Generate professional-looking AI videos from text in minutes

Synthesia launched on September 17, 2020 with 943 votes, #1 of 3,898 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

Synthesia is an AI video generation platform that creates professional videos from text in minutes. It serves businesses across corporate learning, sales, customer success, e-commerce, and e-learning. The tool enables companies to produce videos at scale without traditional production requirements, making it useful for internal communications, personalized outreach, product demonstrations, and educational content.

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From the sources

With Synthesia businesses can now create professional-looking videos at scale. Companies are using it for: 👨‍🏫️ corporate learning & communications, 👨‍💻️ personalized sales and customer success videos, 🛍️ e-commerce product videos, 🎓 e-learning and more.

Official Synthesia site. The AI video platform trusted by 90%+ of the Fortune 100 to communicate, train, and upskill teams in 160+ languages.

How easy it is to use and get started! The platform is user friendly - anyone can do it! It's also very easy to download and upload the videos into an LMS or other video hosting platform. How easy it is to use and get started! The platform is user friendly - anyone can do it! It's also very easy to download and upload the videos into an LMS or other video hostingfrom synthesia.io

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