AI clone yourself and create videos from text

An AI clone is a digital version of you, built with artificial intelligence and deep learning, that delivers videos from text in your own face and voice. You build it once in the video generator, then create new clips by typing a script instead of filming each one.

Yes. The clone is built from your own footage and voice, and Avatar IV adds blinks, gestures, and micro-expressions so it stays out of the uncanny valley. Most viewers cannot tell it apart from a recording.

Both work. A single clear photo is enough to animate a talking clone, while a short video of you speaking produces the closest match to your natural movement and expressions. More reference footage means a more life-like result.

Yes. You clone your own voice from a short sample, and the voice generation produces natural-sounding speech that matches how you actually speak. Every video then uses your voice instead of a stock narrator.

Yes. The cloned voice can narrate long-form audio, so you can produce podcast episodes, record audiobooks, or add voiceovers to a video. The same audiobook voice stays consistent across every release.

Yes. When you translate a video, AI lip-sync re-times your clone's mouth to the new audio, so a French or Hindi version looks recorded in that language, not dubbed over the top.

One clone can speak 175+ languages and dialects, from Indonesian and Dutch to Turkish and Arabic, while keeping your appearance and voice consistent. You record once in your own language, then generate the same message for every market you serve.

Open the script, change the words, and regenerate. There is no reshoot. The AI video editor also lets you swap backgrounds, captions, and branding without touching the original recording.

It can. Educator Anton Voroniuk used HeyGen avatar video to save 15.5 hours a week and reach over 1M students at 40x cheaper than a full production crew, shown in the Anton Voroniuk story.

Yes. Your plan includes commercial use, and you hold the usage rights and copyright to videos made with your own clone. Check your subscription for the exact licence that applies to client work and paid ads.

Only with their explicit consent. You can freely clone yourself, but cloning another person, including a celebrity, requires their permission and a clear licence. Using someone's likeness without consent can breach copyright and platform rules.

Yes. Clones are consent-based, your data is encrypted, and HeyGen does not use customer content to train its models. You keep control of your likeness and can remove your clone at any time.

Disclosure is good practice and required in some regions and on some ad platforms. A short note that the video uses an AI version of you keeps trust intact and keeps your content within platform rules.

Many cloning tools limit you to one or two languages or need long training footage. HeyGen builds a clone from a photo or short clip, works in 175+ languages, and adds gesture control that most tools don’t offer.

You can start for free and create a watermarked clone as a demo for personal projects. Paid plans begin at $24 per month for higher quality and watermark-free downloads, with custom enterprise pricing for teams that need to scale.

Film for 30 seconds to a few minutes in good light, looking at the camera and speaking naturally. Clean audio and steady framing give the AI more to learn from, which leads to smoother movement and a closer voice match.

There’s no per-clone cap on output. Build the clone once and generate unlimited videos on the right plan, which is what makes cloning yourself practical for daily or weekly content.

Founders, educators, marketers, sales reps, and creators who publish frequently see the biggest payoff. Anyone who repeats the same on-camera work, like updates or lessons, can replace filming with a script edit.