Managing avatars

An avatar is the persona your content is built around — its likeness (the face shown on screen) and its voice (the voice variant used for narration). You pick an avatar (or two, for dialogue formats) when creating a production, so setting good avatars up front makes every production faster.

🎬 Set up an avatar and its voice

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1. Avatars → New avatar.
2. Give it a name and a likeness (upload or generate the face image).
3. Pick a voice variant — filter by trait chips (accent, age, gender, style).
4. Preview the voice with the test player, then save.
5. The avatar is now selectable on the New Production form.

What an avatar is made of

• Name — how you’ll recognise it in pickers and on productions.
• Likeness — the face image used on screen. You can upload one or generate it.
• Voice variant — the TTS voice used for this avatar’s narration (see Voice variants).
• Language/accent — drives which voices are appropriate and how the avatar speaks.

Creating an avatar

1. Open Avatars → New avatar.

2. Name it and add a likeness. Upload an image, or generate one if you don’t have a source. The image becomes the on-screen face in video productions.

3. Choose a voice. Use the trait-chip filter (accent, age, gender, style, use-case) to narrow the catalogue, then pick a variant. The same chips appear on the voice-variants admin page, so a selection here matches what’s available there.

4. Preview the voice with the inline test player so you know how narration will sound.

5. Save. The avatar appears immediately in the New Production avatar picker.

Using avatars in productions

• Solo formats — pick one avatar; its face + voice narrate the whole piece.
• Dialogue formats (e.g. debates, interviews) — pick Character 1 and Character 2 avatars; the script generator writes alternating-speaker scripts and each character speaks in its own voice.

Tip

For dialogue formats the two characters must be different avatars — the form enforces this. Set up a small cast of recurring avatars so you can mix and match.

Editing & reusing

Avatars are reusable across many productions. Editing an avatar (e.g. swapping its voice) affects future productions; already-completed productions keep the avatar exactly as it was when they ran.

Note

A great-looking likeness plus a well-matched voice and accent is the single biggest lever on how “on-brand” your output feels. It’s worth spending a few minutes here.