🌱 Spring release: photo AI avatars, phonetics for custom pronunciation, and more

Let’s dive in ⬇️

Photo AI Avatars
You can now upload photos to create AI avatars. We’ve also enhanced talking AI avatars created from a text prompt, making them more dynamic and realistic in their movements.

Suggested Phonetics for Custom Pronunciation
You can now generate AI suggested phonetic respelling of words as custom pronunciations for specific (tricky) words. See here for more details.

New Stock Avatar Looks from HeyGen
We imported 209 new stock avatars from HeyGen to give more fresh options to create avatar videos. The new stock avatars give more customers more options including: new East and South Asians, more office and casual outfits, and new high quality background with professional lighting in different angles.

Jasper and More Voices
Here is a list of our newly added voices:

• English, USA: Grant – MAI Voice 1

• English, USA: Iris – MAI Voice 1

• English, USA: Jasper – MAI Voice 1

• English, USA: Joy – MAI Voice 1

• English, USA: June – MAI Voice 1

• English, USA: Reed – MAI Voice 1

• Mandarin, China: Xiaohan (Flash)

• Mandarin, China: Yunhan (Flash)

• Mandarin, China: Yunxi (Flash)

Removed:
Noa – MAI Voice 1, Teo – MAI Voice 1

Enjoy!