Synthesia Made Our New-Hire Welcome Video Without Booking a Spokesperson

One script, one avatar, done. The uncanny edge stayed off-screen.

I wrote one welcome script and let Synthesia's avatar narrate it for our onboarding page.

I kept sentences short, because long clauses sound wooden from a synthetic voice.

I kept the avatar small in frame so the slightly-off blink stayed out of view.

For internal onboarding it beat scheduling a recording. For a brand hero video, no.

Consistency across every hire was the win. Same message, same face, zero reshoots.

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