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Awesome Service
What do you like best about the product?
We have used Synthesia to create videos for our social media posts and the quality is excellent. I had reason to email customer support and the responses were helpful and fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dislike is a strong word. I have "played" around on the site to create our videos.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Synthesia to create interesting social media posts and we started using them in email campaigns to our referral partners and clients. People love the videos.
best software investment I have made in years
What do you like best about the product?
This product, for a non techie and approacing retirement was so easy to learn and start banging out great video's. So, ease of use, intuative and fast.
I had a small issue and needed support, no body wants to be this guy.
Guess what, a real person answered the chat, they logged in, found the issue, fixed it and then wished me a happy day. What a nice surprise !
I had a small issue and needed support, no body wants to be this guy.
Guess what, a real person answered the chat, they logged in, found the issue, fixed it and then wished me a happy day. What a nice surprise !
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish I could afford thier Enterprise version, it look very useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I make instruction and training videos, they always need updating and its a pain. Not anymore. its as easy as updaitng a word doc. This makes it easy, fast and as a result I make more money banging out more work. Oh yes.
Best AI Video Maker
What do you like best about the product?
The avatars are amazing, I truly recommend it!
What do you dislike about the product?
The plans! I want more minutes per month
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I don't have time for recording myself and that's when avatars are amazing
Synthesia Review: Disappointing Experience and Terrible Pricing Models
What do you like best about the product?
Nothing really to say what is good about it? It can make AI videos from text.
What do you dislike about the product?
I recently tested Synthesia, an AI text-to-video app, for our organization, Goodparty.org. We are not a political party; we help independents run and win in elections. Unfortunately, our experience with Synthesia was nothing short of frustrating and disappointing.
We created a simple test video with the following text:
Helping independents run and win.
We're not a political party – we're building a movement and free tech to end America's two-party political dysfunction.
Learn how you can plug in to inspiring independent campaigns or get access to our free tools for people-powered candidates.
To our dismay, the video was flagged and moderated for "violating their Disinformation & Misinformation: Political Content guidelines." Their message read:
Your video was moderated for violating our Disinformation & Misinformation: Political Content guidelines.
Your content could have been approved if produced with a Webcam or Custom Avatar.
Read the guidelines.
Firstly, our content is not political disinformation or misinformation. We are simply providing tools and support for independent candidates. The moderation decision was baseless and unjustified. When we reached out for clarification, the response was to "read the guidelines," which felt dismissive and unhelpful. We shouldn't have to jump through hoops for our content to be accepted, especially when it adheres to ethical standards and is factually accurate.
Moreover, Synthesia's pricing model is absurdly prohibitive. They charge $89 for just 30 minutes of video, and the prices skyrocket to over $2000 for an enterprise plan. For a service that fails to accurately moderate content and provides such poor customer support, these prices are utterly unjustifiable.
In summary, our experience with Synthesia was marked by poor moderation practices, unhelpful customer support, and outrageous pricing. We expected a smooth, user-friendly experience but instead encountered unnecessary hurdles and exorbitant costs. I cannot recommend Synthesia to anyone looking for a reliable and affordable AI text-to-video solution.
We created a simple test video with the following text:
Helping independents run and win.
We're not a political party – we're building a movement and free tech to end America's two-party political dysfunction.
Learn how you can plug in to inspiring independent campaigns or get access to our free tools for people-powered candidates.
To our dismay, the video was flagged and moderated for "violating their Disinformation & Misinformation: Political Content guidelines." Their message read:
Your video was moderated for violating our Disinformation & Misinformation: Political Content guidelines.
Your content could have been approved if produced with a Webcam or Custom Avatar.
Read the guidelines.
Firstly, our content is not political disinformation or misinformation. We are simply providing tools and support for independent candidates. The moderation decision was baseless and unjustified. When we reached out for clarification, the response was to "read the guidelines," which felt dismissive and unhelpful. We shouldn't have to jump through hoops for our content to be accepted, especially when it adheres to ethical standards and is factually accurate.
Moreover, Synthesia's pricing model is absurdly prohibitive. They charge $89 for just 30 minutes of video, and the prices skyrocket to over $2000 for an enterprise plan. For a service that fails to accurately moderate content and provides such poor customer support, these prices are utterly unjustifiable.
In summary, our experience with Synthesia was marked by poor moderation practices, unhelpful customer support, and outrageous pricing. We expected a smooth, user-friendly experience but instead encountered unnecessary hurdles and exorbitant costs. I cannot recommend Synthesia to anyone looking for a reliable and affordable AI text-to-video solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
If it worked it would be useful for producing blog post summaries.
Excellent AI Video Creation
What do you like best about the product?
The voices and gestures make the Avatars more natural, and remove hesitation to publish the videos in a corporate setting.
The customer support is quick and honest. They own up to any issues under their control.
The customer support is quick and honest. They own up to any issues under their control.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitations on features when not paying for an Enterprise license. For a small business, it doesn't make financial sense for such a large license when only 1 or 2 employees will utilize the program.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Synthesia is solving the issue of time with the AI voices. Prior to using synthesia, I had to wait for one of my teammates to find time and a quiet space to record a script for me. Now I can input the script and have the vocals finished right away.
Absolotely amazing!
What do you like best about the product?
Creating webinars was always a struggle. With Synthesia it is a blast!
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing model is a bit confusing. Would be great to have some more insights or options on upgrading.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Not longer dependent on colleagues or vendors when creating video's.
9 months intensive experience
What do you like best about the product?
As a complete novice to any form of video making, Synthesia's software using Avatars was immediately attractive.
Over the 9 months since I signed up, the possibilites have been extended enormously - multiple Avatars in a single scene, hugely improved expressive Avatars and a load of background software improvements. And these improvements will be continuing over the coming months.
Synthesia delivers a working solution to fix my problem that requires little technical ability to get going, freeing me to explore my creativity. Guidance webinars (I prefer not to call them training) are very helpful, but they are guidance and not instruction.
Teh support team are helpful, and can generally get to teh bottom of issue quickly.
By any standards, i am a heavy user of Synthesia.
Over the 9 months since I signed up, the possibilites have been extended enormously - multiple Avatars in a single scene, hugely improved expressive Avatars and a load of background software improvements. And these improvements will be continuing over the coming months.
Synthesia delivers a working solution to fix my problem that requires little technical ability to get going, freeing me to explore my creativity. Guidance webinars (I prefer not to call them training) are very helpful, but they are guidance and not instruction.
Teh support team are helpful, and can generally get to teh bottom of issue quickly.
By any standards, i am a heavy user of Synthesia.
What do you dislike about the product?
Upgrades can be sprung on us with little explanation and no forewarning. Like all AI businesses, they have talked themselves into a need to be seen to be rushing upgrades, sometimes they would do as well to ease the pace and get user input before zooming ahead.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I will be delivering a 4 to 5 hour long Managment Development Programme using Synthesia as teh sole delivery mechanism
great for presentations
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use Ease of Implementation. Good Customer Support
What do you dislike about the product?
Would not let me login sometimes. The custom avatar was too pricey
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
quick presentations
Synthesia makes my daily work life much easier
What do you like best about the product?
That it´s userfriendly and that you can create audio files in so many languages.
What do you dislike about the product?
That its not possible to buy for instance only 100 Minute. You can only buy/ pay the different packages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
that i can provide the learning videos i create for my customer in different languages and that its much easier and faster to use synthesia for audio files as if i would do the soundtrack by myself. Because there are no background noises.
Makes video production easy
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to produce videos quickly and effeciently
What do you dislike about the product?
Can not use own voice on recorded avatar
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speed to market is much better
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