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AI avatars and virtual presenters

Create digital presenters and avatars for video and brands.

Updated: 23 July 2026Editor: Skilvy editorial

20 lessons · 6 h read · 2 free · 4 AI-graded projects

About this course

This course teaches you to use AI avatars for video — onboarding, update walkthroughs, answers to common customer questions — without booking a film crew every time. It solves a specific problem: video that needs frequent updates rarely justifies a shoot, but text alone without a face doesn't hold attention.

The course moves from avatar types and where they beat live-action filming, through building your own avatar and cloning a voice with speech markup, to fixing the classic "floating" lip-sync problem. In "Script, Assembly, and Scale" you release a series of three linked videos from one template, and the final project has you write an avatar-video policy covering disclosure, consent, and deepfake protection.

It suits people who regularly need repeating video for a company or project — training clips, update videos, customer answers — and want to scale production without an actor on camera. No video editing background is required, but you do need real video tasks from your company for the coming quarter.

What you'll learn

  • Choose an avatar type and platform for a specific video task
  • Build your own avatar from a photo, video, or stock template
  • Clone a voice and mark up speech — pauses, stress, pace
  • Fix common avatar defects and the "floating" lip-sync problem
  • Produce multilingual versions of a video without re-recording
  • Write a talking-head script and assemble a video with branding
  • Scale one template into a series of videos using variables
  • Disclose avatar use, get consent for a likeness, and protect against deepfakes

Tools you'll work with

HeyGenSynthesiaD-IDElevenLabs

What you'll end up with

  • A passport document for your own avatar that another person could reproduce
  • A speech standard with voice presets and exact parameters
  • A series of three linked videos built from one template
  • A final avatar-video policy ready to hand to leadership

This course isn't for a one-off video — avatars pay off on repeating formats that need frequent updates, not for something a single regular shoot would cover just fine.

Course program

Module 1 · The avatar as a tool: what it is and when it pays off
1What an AI avatar actually doesFree2Four types of avatars and what they costFree3Where avatars beat filming and where they lose4Choosing a platform: criteria, not rankings
Module 2 · Creating your own avatarproject
5The source recording: what to shoot so the clone works6Light, background and framing: the three things always visible7Photo, video and stock avatars in practice8Avatar defects: how to spot and fix them
Module 3 · Voice: cloning, intonation, languagesproject
9Voice cloning: material and settings10Marking up speech: pauses, stress, tempo11Lip sync: why the mouth drifts and what to do12Multilingual versions without re-recording
Module 4 · Script, assembly and scaleproject
13Writing for a talking head14Assembly: background, captions, b-roll, branding15Templates and variables: hundreds of clips from one16Avatars in the process: where they live and who runs them
Module 5 · Law, ethics and securityproject
17Disclosure: when and how to say it is AI18Consent and likeness rights19Deepfakes: protecting yourself and your company20Ethics of use and the limits of appropriateness
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