Want a unique AI avatar for your videos?
With HeyGen’s feature to create your own avatar, you can design a realistic, animated digital version of yourself or any character you want. This is perfect for branding, marketing, training videos, and virtual presentations, significantly enhancing customer engagement. Your custom avatar can speak in 175+ languages, making global communication simple and effective.\n\nWith advanced AI customization, you can tailor facial expressions, outfits, and styles to reflect your identity or brand. No cameras and no actors are needed—just our AI-powered video creation.

Best Practices for Creating Your AI Avatar
To make the most out of your custom avatar, follow these steps on how to create an avatar effectively:

Boosting Engagement with AI Avatars
Your avatar can speak, present, and interact in videos, helping you maintain a strong brand presence without being on camera. Whether you’re recording training videos, personalized sales messages, or social media content, HeyGen ensures your avatar looks and sounds natural, making your videos more engaging and scalable.
HeyGen’s "Create Your Own Avatar" feature goes beyond static digital characters—it features realistic lip-syncing, AI voice cloning, and expressive animations to make your avatar lively and engaging. With Zapier integration, you can also automate content creation, ensuring your avatar delivers messages efficiently across different platforms.

Create Your Custom AI Avatar in 4 Easy Steps
From a short video to your fully personalized, ready-to-speak digital self.
Film yourself reading the provided script in clear lighting and sound—this becomes the foundation of your avatar.
Submit your video and consent form securely to HeyGen. Our team uses this to generate your custom avatar.
Use your AI avatar to deliver messages, presentations, or tutorials—complete with gestures, lip-sync, and voice.
Publish your videos to social platforms, internal tools, or client channels—your avatar is ready to engage at scale.




This tool allows you to generate a hyper-realistic talking avatar from a personal photo or video, ideal for business, education, and content creation.
Upload a high-quality video or image, follow the avatar creation prompts, and HeyGen’s AI will generate your personalized talking avatar in minutes.
Yes. Your avatar can speak in 175+ languages using AI voiceovers, making it suitable for global audiences and multilingual projects.
Yes. You can delete, recreate, or update avatars from your dashboard as needed, depending on your subscription level.
The ability to create a fully custom avatar is available on premium plans. Some plans may include free trials or limited access.
Bring any photo to life with hyper‑realistic voice and movement using Avatar IV.
