Elicit Did the Job. Synthesia Made a Slideshow About It.

I hate doing anything twice, so I fed the same input to Elicit and Synthesia and counted what broke.

Elicit extracts the sample size and result into a table you can scan. The catch is, cites the studies so you're not taking its word for it

Synthesia takes the other lane: dubs a clip into several languages from one script. keeps the avatar small so the uncanny edge stays off-screen

Neither is clean, though. Elicit the summaries skip the caveats a human reviewer would flag. And Synthesia custom avatars cost real money.

Here's who should actually pick which.

Pick Elicit if you're a researcher who wants a first pass over the literature before reading closely. Pick Synthesia if you're an L&D team that ships internal video without a studio. I landed on Elicit for daily use and kept Synthesia for the one thing it does that the other can't.