HeyGen Release Notes

Summary

Introducing Avatar V, HeyGen’s most advanced AI avatar model. It delivers unmatched realism and identity consistency. Create studio-quality videos from a simple 15-second recording with lifelike motion, multi-angle stability, and long-form performance.

Every few months, a new AI model ships with a bold claim about realism. The demos look impressive, the side-by-side comparisons are compelling, and the launch post makes it sound like everything before it was a rough draft. Then you actually use it, and that familiar feeling sets in: the slight uncanny quality, the face that drifts, the avatar that starts as you and quietly stops being you twenty seconds in.

We've seen this too. We built around it.

Today, we're introducing Avatar V, HeyGen's most advanced AI avatar model and the most realistic in the world.

What is Avatar V?

Avatar V is HeyGen's next-generation avatar model and the foundation everything else in HeyGen runs on now.

Most avatar systems optimize for a single impressive moment: the screenshot, the short clip, the controlled demo environment where everything is working in the model's favor. They look great in two seconds and fall apart in twenty. Avatar V was built to do something harder.

It was built to hold.

What that means in practice is that one short recording from you generates studio-quality video that maintains your face, your voice, and your presence across angles, looks, and runtime. Not just for the opening shot, but for the whole thing, from the first frame to the last.

We've been training avatar models for years and going deep on the specific problem of human identity in video: the micro-expressions, the natural movement, the quality threshold that separates a good talking head from footage that could genuinely pass as real. Avatar V is the result of that work compounding over time.

Why it’s the best model

The AI video market has a quality problem that most people describe wrong. They say the output looks AI, but what they actually mean is it doesn't look like the person it's supposed to be.

Identity drift is the real problem.

An avatar that starts as you and slowly stops being you. A face that holds in static shots but breaks under motion. A model that generates one great look but can't give you another without becoming someone else in the process. These aren't edge cases. They're the norm.

Avatar V solves identity consistency at the model level, not as a post-processing patch applied after the fact. We trained it specifically on the hard cases: multi-angle footage, long-form content, varied looks generated from a single input recording. The result is an avatar that stays true to who you are across every variable we could throw at it.

Plus, companies like Synthesia still requires studio time to get anywhere close to this output quality. HeyGen does not. Rated number one for most realistic avatars on G2, Avatar V makes that claim stronger than it's ever been.

How it works

Record a 15-second clip

That's the input. Fifteen seconds, no professional camera setup, no studio lighting, no crew required. You need a phone and a few seconds of your time.

From that reference clip, Avatar V builds a complete model of your identity, not just what you look like in one frame, but how you move, how your face settles naturally, and what makes you recognizably you across different contexts. Everything it generates afterward comes from that foundation, which is what makes the output so consistent.

That gap between what goes in and what comes out is exactly where Avatar V does its work.

Multi-angle consistency

Real video isn't a single locked-off shot. It moves, it cuts, and the camera finds you from different positions and angles, and if the avatar can't hold up across that motion, the entire thing falls apart immediately.

Avatar V holds. Your avatar maintains consistency across different shots and angles without drift, without inconsistency, and without the uncanny valley breaking through at the worst possible moment. The face that appears at the top of your video is the same face that appears at the bottom, from any angle the output requires.

This is genuinely difficult to do well. Most models treat each frame as an isolated generation problem. Avatar V treats your identity as a constant and builds outward from there.

Multi-look generation

Every video you've ever recorded came with baggage you didn't choose. The outfit you happened to be wearing that day. The background behind you. The lighting in the room. If you wanted to look different, the answer was always the same: go record again.

Avatar V changes that entirely.

With Avatar IV, what you recorded was what you got. The performance and the appearance were locked together. Avatar V is the first model to separate them.

You record yourself once, naturally. Avatar V captures your real movements, your real expressions, and the specific way you carry yourself when you're actually talking. That performance becomes the foundation. Then you choose how you appear: a different outfit, a different setting, a different version of yourself entirely. Your motion stays real. Everything else is yours to decide.

This matters for real work. You might want one look for a sales video, another for a company-wide announcement, and another for a product walkthrough. With Avatar V, you don't film three separate times to get three distinct results. You record once and choose from there.

Long-form stability

Short clips are easy. Long-form is where most avatar models quietly fall apart.

Avatar V maintains your identity across your longest videos, delivering the same face, the same voice, and the same presence from the first second to the last without degradation or drift. No moment where the avatar stops looking like you and starts looking like a close approximation of someone adjacent to you.

This is the capability that makes Avatar V genuinely useful for the content that matters most: full training modules, product walkthroughs, onboarding videos, and the kinds of recordings that used to require a camera crew and a full studio day to produce.

Pair it with Seedance 2.0

Avatar V handles the message. Seedance 2.0 earns the watch.

Once you have your Avatar V recording, it becomes the foundation for a scroll-stopping video when paired with Seedance 2.0. Avatar V delivers your message with the stable, long-form presence that professional video requires. Seedance generates the cinematic hooks and motion-first scenes that pull people in before you say a word. They cover opposite ends of the same video: the opening that demands attention and the body that holds it.

Most people think about the hook and the message as separate production problems. With Avatar V and Seedance 2.0, they both start from the same 15-second clip. You record once to create cinematic videos starring you.

What comes next

Video is the highest-trust medium for human communication, and when it works, it works better than anything else. When it looks fake, trust collapses immediately and there's no recovering it.

Avatar V was built on a single belief: the output has to be good enough that you'd be willing to put your name on it. Not good for AI. Just good.

We think we're there.

Try Avatar V today

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Summary

HeyGen’s March updates focus on making AI video creation feel truly yours by improving branding speed, adding interactivity, enhancing quality, and expanding tools for builders.

Every tool eventually hits the same wall. It can do the thing, but making the thing feel like yours takes extra work. Your brand colors, your style, your level of polish. March was about closing that gap. We shipped seven updates that make HeyGen videos look better, feel more on-brand, and reach more developers out of the box.

Brand Systems: One URL, every asset on brand

Paste your company's website URL and HeyGen extracts your logo, typography, and color palette automatically. That's your Brand System. It works across Templates, AI Studio, and Video Agent.

In Templates, you apply your brand with a single click. In AI Studio, elements default to your brand fonts and colors. In Video Agent, you can prompt it to use your Brand System and it generates motion graphics that actually match your identity. Set it up once and stop manually adjusting colors on every project.

This is the kind of thing that sounds simple but changes your workflow. No more eyedropping hex codes from your website or hunting for the right font file. Your brand just shows up.

Interactive video experiences

Static video is a one-way street. Interactive Video turns it into a conversation. You can now add in-video quizzes for real-time knowledge checks, branching paths for choose-your-own-adventure scenarios, and CTA buttons that link externally or jump between chapters.

This is a big deal for training and education teams. Build a compliance module where learners make decisions and see consequences. Create onboarding flows that adapt based on role. The branching logic means one video can serve multiple paths without duplicating content.

It also exports to SCORM, so it plugs directly into your existing LMS. Available on Business and Enterprise plans.

Styles for Video Agent

Video Agent can now generate videos in over 100 curated visual styles. Before you generate, pick a style that controls typography, font pairings, color systems, motion pacing, transitions, animation timing, and layout composition.

The same script with the same avatar produces a completely different video depending on which style you choose. A product demo can feel polished and corporate or bold and editorial without changing a single word of the prompt. This makes Video Agent dramatically more flexible for teams producing content across different brands, campaigns, or audiences.

4K video enhancement

You can now upscale any video to 4K, powered by Topaz Starlight Precise 2.5. There are two engines: Standard is faster and uses fewer credits, while Precise delivers sharper results for when quality matters most.

Beyond resolution, you also get frame interpolation that takes footage from 24fps up to 120fps. Find it under the Apps tab as "Upscale Video." Available on all plans with credits.

If you've been sitting on older content that looks dated at lower resolutions, this is the fastest way to bring it up to standard.

Enterprise admin controls

Enterprise teams now have granular control over who can do what. Admins can manage public invite links, sub-workspace access, and default sharing permissions. Video distribution controls let you restrict downloads, public publishing, and social sharing at the org level.

Feature-level settings go further: restrict custom avatar creation, AI-generated avatars, public avatar availability, and Brand Kit creation. The Members tab now supports search, active/pending filtering, and exportable status lists. Sub-workspace management got a refreshed UI with cleaner billing setup and pagination.

All changes apply going forward without affecting existing content. Enterprise plan only.

For builders: Pay-as-you-go API, fal, and MCP

Three updates for developers this month. First, API access no longer requires a subscription. You can top up starting at $5 with straightforward USD-per-unit pricing across all API features.

Optional auto-reload keeps things running without manual intervention. If you're already subscribed, your existing discounts stay intact.

Second, HeyGen's core capabilities are now available on fal's, replicate, runware developer platform. That includes Video Agent, Image-to-Video, Translate (both Precision and Speed modes), and Digital Twin with Avatar 3 and Avatar 4. If you're already building on fal, you can add AI video generation without switching platforms or managing a separate integration.

Lastly, HeyGen MCP is available on Claude, Manus, and OpenAI — you can generate videos directly on these platforms.

Looking ahead

That's seven major updates in one month, and we're just getting started. Seedance 2.0 and Gamma went live last week. April's going to be fun.

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Summary

This month, we're raising the bar on avatar realism, creative control, and global reach. With HeyGen now on Android, a smarter video translation engine, major upgrades to our latest avatar model (Avatar IV), and a refreshed AI Studio experience, you can produce polished, professional content even faster, whether you're scaling training, creating courses, or building your brand through video.

What’s new

HeyGen is now on Android

HeyGen is officially available on Android in the U.S. Create, edit, and publish videos directly from your phone, regardless of device.

For course creators, coaches, and anyone who needs to move fast, the Android app puts full video creation in your pocket. Capture ideas on the go, make quick edits between meetings, or publish content without ever opening your laptop.

U.S. Android user? Get started here.

Translate videos with speed and precision

We've redesigned how video translation works with two distinct engines built for different use cases.

Speed Mode provides fast, reliable translation in 175+ languages, accents, and dialects. It's optimized for quick turnaround, making it perfect for daily social posts, quick updates, or any content where you need to move fast. Speed Mode handles sentence-level translation with light alignment and solid lip-sync.

Precision Mode is our best-in-class translation engine, built for when accuracy matters most. It's video-aware: better occlusion handling, better multi-speaker support, context-integrated translation that's character-sensitive and timing-aware. The result is truly lifelike lip-sync and natural voice output, even for movement-heavy content. Ideal for courses, tutorials, product demos, and client deliverables.

If you're scaling content globally, you now have clear options: Speed when you need volume, Precision when you need polish.

Learn more about translating with Heygen.

Create more natural, controllable avatars with Avatar IV upgrades

Our SOTA avatar engine just got more powerful.

More natural movements

Control when gestures happen and in what sequence: prompt for a wave at the beginning, then natural movement as your avatar speaks. Your avatars finally move the way a real person would: purposefully, not on a loop.

Better control

With better expression controls, your avatars now display subtler, more realistic expressions and body language, the kind of micro-movements that make the difference between "AI video" and "professional video."

Intelligent render selection

We've simplified how rendering works. Avatar IV automatically uses the best rendering approach for your video. No more fretting over which mode to pick. When you add custom motion prompts, the system routes to our higher-fidelity engine under the hood. When you don't, you get our most stable, consistent output by default. Less guesswork, better results.

And AI Studio updates for all

We've redesigned the AI Studio to eliminate friction and give you more creative control without leaving the editor.

Style your avatar without leaving the studio

Generate looks directly inside Studio, including outfits, styles, or visual treatments for your avatar without switching to the Avatar tab. Need a blazer for a pitch or something casual for a course? Switch looks in seconds without breaking your flow.

Your avatar, anywhere

Place your avatar in any environment instantly with custom Avatar Backgrounds. Swap backgrounds for solid colors, stock photos, AI-generated scenes, or your own custom uploads. Every background works seamlessly with all avatar framings: Full, Circle, or Close-up.

A faster, cleaner editing experience

Our fully redesigned Studio layout feels faster, cleaner, and easier to work in, especially for creators who spend hours editing.

Enjoy smoother interactions across long editing sessions, faster response times when adjusting parameters, and a cleaner interface that consolidates essential controls.

We've also overhauled the context menu, replacing More Options with a unified Properties panel. Edit any element, such as text, image, and shape, from one consistent menu, and access interactivity controls without digging through submenus.

What’s leaving

At HeyGen, we live for customer feedback. Our users shape who we are, what we build, and sometimes, what we remove. To enhance the user experience, please note the following changes we’ve made to the platform:

Voice Tab relocation

The standalone Voices tab has been relocated for your workspace. Nothing has been removed, your Voice tools now live in the workflows where they’re used most:

• AI Studio: Sidebar → Voice → Create / Integrate
• Proofread Studio: Voice dropdown → Track Voices
• Avatars: Voice setup for Avatar creation

Flux product placement removal

Flux product placement (Assets) are now removed as an editing option. Don’t worry:

• Your existing Flux Looks with product placement will remain untouched
• You can download and reuse anything you've already created but
• New Looks made with Flux won't include the product placement feature

While Flux product placement was valuable for specific use cases, HeyGen will rely on Nanobanana exclusively for Look edits using reference images. This means product placement will now be entirely handled through the Edit existing look option, ensuring superior results.

Media Tab removal

This feature was removed as part of our simplification efforts. Users did not find it helpful, and thus it was deprecated.

Questions? If this change impacts your workflow, our support team can help you explore options or talk through alternatives.

Looking ahead

The holidays are just around the corner, but for HeyGen customers, Christmas always comes early. Introducing (even more) avatars from HeyGen!

We release new avatars and looks every week! Be sure to regularly check the Avatars tab for even more ways to tell your story.

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Bring real conversations to life with LiveAvatar

HeyGen’s October 2025 release redefines interactive storytelling with lifelike LiveAvatars, cinematic Veo 3.1 and Sora 2 integrations, and powerful new learning tools.

This month, we’re taking storytelling and interactivity to the next level with new integrations, intelligent learning features, and lifelike avatars. From cinematic B-roll powered by Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 to interactive quizzes and LiveAvatar, these updates enable more dynamic, personal, and engaging video communication.

We’re excited to introduce LiveAvatar by HeyGen, offering hyper-realistic, real-time interactive avatars that enable face-to-face human conversation experiences on demand, and at scale. You can create your own avatar with just two minutes of footage or choose from diverse presets to instantly bring realism and personality to customer support, coaching, or education experiences. Already used by visionaries like Reid AI, Coursera, HP, Bosch, and Proto Hologram, LiveAvatar combines authenticity, responsiveness, and enterprise reliability to bring a new level of human touch to AI-powered communication.

Add integrations for next-level video communication

We’re bringing cinematic power directly into your creative workflow. New Veo 3.1 and OpenAI Sora 2 integrations give you complete control over avatars, visuals, and storytelling in HeyGen.

Veo 3.1

The Veo 3.1 integration gives creators full control over every voice, character, and scene. Generate once in Veo and keep your avatar consistent across shots, preserving your real voice, true look, and seamless motion. Perfect for dynamic action, scroll-stopping hooks, and multi-speaker avatar videos, you can use your existing avatar or start from a photo for future use. Upload up to three images per scene to add people, products, or environments mid-story.

OpenAI Sora 2

OpenAI Sora 2 is now fully integrated into HeyGen. Bring cinematic-quality video generation directly into your creative workflow. With Sora 2, you can instantly generate B-roll, scenes, and dynamic visuals from a simple prompt without switching tools, exporting files, or juggling software. This integration unlocks new levels of creativity and speed for creators, educators, and businesses alike, making it easier than ever to turn ideas into polished, professional video content.

Make interactive learning even easier

HeyGen’s Learning & Development Solution is now more powerful and interactive, enabling teams to create personalized, trackable learning experiences that keep learners engaged.

Add quizzes to videos

With built-in quiz features, L&D teams can reinforce key concepts, measure learner comprehension, and keep training sessions interactive from start to finish. By embedding quizzes directly into videos, you transform passive lessons into engaging learning experiences, turning viewers into active participants who retain more through real-time understanding checks.

Improved interactivity UI

HeyGen’s new interactivity layout makes it easier than ever to add and manage engagement features within your videos. The redesigned UI gives creators a clear, visual way to locate and insert branching paths, quizzes, and embedded links directly in the timeline.

Multilingual player support for SCORM export

The multilingual player now supports SCORM export, enabling the delivery of localized training at scale. With this update, L&D teams can share all translated videos through a single link that integrates directly into their LMS, allowing learners to access and complete training in the language of their choice within a fully trackable, SCORM-compliant experience.

Looking ahead

This month’s releases strengthen how teams create, communicate, and teach with video. With LiveAvatar, Veo 3.1, and Sora 2 integrations, as well as new interactive and multilingual training tools, HeyGen empowers every team to create content that’s more engaging, adaptable, and globally accessible.

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Summary

This month’s updates include the public launch of Video Agent, new creative tools in AI Studio, multilingual playback, and LMS integration, making it faster and easier than ever to create, scale, and share professional videos.

This month, we’re introducing some of our biggest updates yet, including the public launch of Video Agent, powerful new creative tools in AI Studio, multilingual video playback, and LMS integration. These features are designed to help you create, scale, and share professional videos faster and more seamlessly than ever.

Generate a professional video from a simple prompt

We’re excited to announce the public release of Video Agent, the world’s first creative operating system for video. With just a single prompt, Video Agent handles the entire production workflow—scripting, visuals, voiceovers, avatars, editing, and delivery. It automatically builds a narrative, selects the right assets, syncs voiceovers with AI avatars, applies editing effects, and produces a final, ready-to-use video. Plus, with support for localization in over 175 languages and dialects, it’s built to scale content creation for global audiences.

The real value of Video Agent is in its speed and simplicity. What once took days or weeks can now be done in minutes, dramatically reducing costs and complexity for creators, marketers, and educators. By making video creation more consistent and brand-aligned, it lowers the barriers for anyone without professional production skills.

New tools for global training at scale

To support enterprises and L&D teams delivering training worldwide, we’re introducing new features that make HeyGen videos easier to integrate and share across platforms and languages.

LMS integration

L&D teams can now seamlessly scale training with support for learning management system (LMS) integration. Import HeyGen videos and courses directly into your LMS with just a few clicks. Simply open a project, select a generated video, click share, and choose LMS to get a ready-to-use link. This integration ensures that AI-powered training content fits into existing workflows, providing employees and learners with direct access to engaging, localized videos where they already learn.

Multi-lingual video player

We’re excited to introduce the multi-lingual player, a powerful new way to share translated content at scale. Instead of juggling multiple links, all your translated videos now live in a single, shareable link with a simple dropdown that lets viewers switch between languages for both audio and captions. Fully compatible with avatar and standard translated videos—including batch translations—the multi-lingual player ensures your audience can engage with your content in the language they know best, making training, marketing, and communications more accessible worldwide.

Make every video stand out with instant B-roll

To give creators even more flexibility and control, we’ve added powerful new tools for visual generation and caption customization inside AI Studio.

New AI tab in the editor

We added a new AI tab in AI Studio, designed to make image and video generation more seamless than ever. With support for Nano Banana and Flux Kontext, the update puts visual creation front and center, enabling high-quality B-roll generation directly in HeyGen. With support for image-to-image editing in this release cycle, it’s easier to enhance or adapt visuals, drop them into your canvas, and instantly level up your video projects without leaving AI Studio.

Caption customization

We’ve expanded creative control with 15 new caption styles and full font customization, making it easier to match your video’s tone, whether professional, playful, or cinematic. You can now upload and use your brand’s exact fonts for a consistent look across all content with no extra steps required.

Looking ahead

Together, these September updates mark a major leap forward in making HeyGen faster, smarter, and more global. From the launch of Video Agent to new AI-powered creative tools, caption customization, multilingual playback, and LMS integration, we’re building a platform that empowers creators, marketers, and L&D teams to scale video like never before.

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HeyGen’s August 2025 release introduces more realistic full-body avatars, enhanced voice design, flexible creation modes, and expanded enterprise and API capabilities for scalable, personalized video content.

Users now have greater flexibility in designing and personalizing avatars and voices. Lifelike digital twins, customizable voice prompts, and new options for speed or quality enable fine-tuning for truly unique content.

Full control of how your avatars look and sound

Users now have greater flexibility in designing and personalizing their avatars and voices. From lifelike full-body Digital Twins to customizable voice prompts and new options for speed or quality in avatar creation, these updates provide users with more ways to fine-tune their content and make it truly their own.

Digital Twin is now powered by Avatar IV

HeyGen’s new Digital Twin, powered by Avatar IV, takes personalization and realism to an entirely new level. Built with the world’s leading avatar model, the technology enables users to create a version of themselves that doesn’t just talk, but also moves, gestures, and emotes in ways that feel unmistakably real. From every blink to every tonal shift, the digital twin mirrors its human counterpart with striking authenticity.

What sets this release apart is how immersive and complete the experience is. Digital Twin now represents your full body presence, not just your upper frame, and offers the flexibility of clean or dynamic backgrounds. With Avatar IV, the result is more than realistic footage; it’s recognizable and deeply personal, enabling avatars that don’t just sound like you but feel like you. By combining hyper-realism with adaptability, HeyGen’s Digital Twin redefines what it means to maintain a human presence in digital communication, offering creators the most personal experience the platform has ever built.

Improved voice design

HeyGen is enhancing the voice design experience by updating the modal to display the auto-populated prompt and give users the ability to customize it. Voice design now supports more descriptive prompts beyond age, gender, and ethnicity. This update provides both transparency and flexibility. Users will see the generated prompt, preview voices, and have the option to edit the prompt and regenerate new voices tailored to their needs.

Avatar IV speed and quality modes

HeyGen has introduced the option to choose between higher quality or faster creation when creating an avatar in Avatar IV. With the new update, users can now select a “Max Quality” mode for more detailed results or a “Faster” mode for quicker turnaround, depending on their needs. This flexibility is available across Avatar IV, AI Studio, and quick avatar video creation.

Expanded enterprise and API capabilities

HeyGen is evolving with new capabilities designed to meet the needs of enterprises. From expanded customization and workflow integrations to stronger admin controls, these updates make it easier for organizations to create content at scale, streamline collaboration, and maintain clear oversight across teams.

Template API support

AI Studio is now compatible with template and video creation through our API, giving teams greater flexibility and control. It introduces expanded customization options for variables, including avatars, text, and elements such as frames, icons, images, and videos. Even the script of a scene can be set as a variable and customized via the API, allowing for more dynamic and tailored video generation.

Support for Google Slides

Support for Google Slides has been added to editable templates, expanding beyond the existing PowerPoint integration. Users can now import their Google Slides directly into HeyGen, making it simple to transform presentations into engaging videos. This is especially useful for training content, where teams can quickly repurpose slide decks into video lessons without extra formatting or setup, streamlining the entire content creation process.

Export usage history by product

Admins now have the capability to export usage history by product directly from settings. Previously, only the full audit log could be downloaded, but this update makes it easier to access and analyze product-specific usage data. This is especially important for admins who need clear visibility into how different teams are using HeyGen, enabling better reporting, compliance tracking, and resource management.

Looking ahead

Together, these August updates are a major step forward in making HeyGen more powerful, customizable, and enterprise-ready. By combining hyper-realistic avatars, smarter voice tools, flexible quality modes, and stronger admin and API capabilities, HeyGen empowers both individuals and organizations to create with more precision and efficiency.

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Summary

Avatar IV API lets you generate lifelike talking videos from any photo, with clean lip-sync, expressive facial motion, and natural gestures.

Earlier this summer, we launched Avatar IV, our most advanced image-to-video model ever, in the HeyGen web app. Today, I’m excited to share that Avatar IV is now available via API, allowing you to embed it directly into your product experiences.

What’s new: Avatar IV, programmatic

With the Avatar IV API, a photo and a script are all you need to generate a realistic talking video, featuring all the HeyGen magic: accurate lip-sync, expressive facial movement, and even authentic hand gestures. Now you can trigger that exact flow with our API inside your app or workflow.

Under the hood, Avatar IV supports angled or profile photos and works across lifelike or stylized characters (humans, anime, and even pets). It’s built to handle real-world inputs while maintaining natural timing and motion.

Why partners are excited

• Frictionless creation from a photo. Let users start with an existing image (or a generated one) and produce a studio-quality avatar performance from just a script. No cameras. No shoots. Seconds, not days.
• More expressive, more engaging. Avatar IV syncs voice with emotion and powers gesture-aware motion, making every message land with clarity and charisma.
• Flexible by design. Works with front-facing, angled, or profile images; supports lifelike and stylized outputs for on-brand experiences across education, CX, marketing, internal comms, and more.
• Built for developers and product teams. Spin up jobs with a simple POST to our video generation endpoints; use photo-avatar endpoints when you want to programmatically add motion and sound effects or manage avatar assets at scale.

Here’s an example Avatar IV video to show the model’s realism and gesture quality.

Common partner use cases

• Learning and development (L&D), and Education: Turn slide thumbnails or instructor headshots into narrated modules and localize at scale.
• Sales and CX platforms: Auto-generate personalized explainers from a CRM record and just a photo of yourself, to help build personal relationships with your audience with video.
• Creative & marketing tools: Provide users with an “instant host” for product demos, social content, or ads, without needing to book talent.

Plans and availability

Avatar IV API is self-serve on our Pro and Scale tiers, with Enterprise available for custom rates and high-volume usage. You can find the Avatar IV API documentation here.

A note on quality and control

We purpose-built Avatar IV to feel and look natural in real product UX, with clean lip-sync, nuanced facial dynamics, and gesture timing that follows the script. It also pairs beautifully with our voice tools for delivery control, so content sounds as intentional as it looks.

Get started with Avatar IV today.

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HeyGen’s July 2025 release introduces powerful new features like screen recording, generative B-roll, and expressive voice tools to help enterprise teams create high-quality video content at scale.

This month, we’re releasing a suite of enhancements that give enterprise teams more power, flexibility, and creative control to produce video at scale. From integrated screen recording and expanded PPT/PDF editing to premium motion elements, expressive voice models, and generative B-roll, these updates streamline complex workflows while elevating video quality.

Whether your teams are building training programs, customer communications, or global marketing campaigns, HeyGen’s July updates help you work faster, collaborate more effectively, and deliver content that connects.

Expanding capabilities to meet enterprise content demands

Creating training, education, and marketing content at scale requires tools that simplify complex workflows. Our latest releases bring powerful enhancements to screen recording, voice testing, and presentation editing.

Screen recorder in AI Studio

Responding to strong demand from enterprises, we integrated our native screen recorder directly into the AI Studio text editor. You can now capture your screen—with optional mic audio—and instantly create a new scene with synced blocks, all without leaving AI Studio.

This feature is particularly valuable for training, enablement, and product education workflows, enabling teams to produce tutorial-style content faster and with fewer steps.

Editable PPT/PDF improvements

We expanded support for editable PowerPoint and PDF imports by raising the slide limit from 15 to 50 slides. You can now work with larger, more complex presentations while maintaining full editability in AI Studio. This improvement is particularly beneficial for training, corporate comms, and product marketing teams managing high-volume slide decks.

Side-by-side video testing

Side-by-side TTS (text-to-speech) testing is now live in AI Studio, enabling you and your team to directly compare voice engines within the same language and select the best fit for global audiences. Upcoming enhancements will also automatically correct suboptimal engine selections, ensuring even higher voice quality.

Enhance storytelling with seamless visuals and expressive audio

Our latest updates empower your teams to create videos that look and sound more polished than ever. We’ve introduced tools that elevate both the visual and voice experience, making it easier to create B-roll, deliver seamless transitions, dynamic motion elements, and expressive narration for more engaging storytelling at scale.

Generate B-roll with Veo 3 and Seedance 1.0

We’ve expanded HeyGen’s creative toolkit with support for Veo 3 and Seedance 1.0, enabling your team to generate high-quality B-roll directly within the platform. This eliminates the need to source supplemental footage externally, streamlining production while maintaining a consistent visual style. Advanced generative video models in HeyGen let you enrich storytelling, add variety to training and marketing content, and produce more engaging videos at scale.

Magic Match transitions

Our Magic Match transition feature automatically animates matching elements between scenes, eliminating jarring cuts and ensuring a fluid, professional-grade flow from start to finish. By intelligently connecting visuals, it delivers seamless scene-to-scene continuity that enhances storytelling and gives your content a polished, dynamic feel.

Premium motion elements

You can already enhance your videos by adding customizable elements such as text, speed, and zoom effects, making it easier to create engaging and professional content. We’re adding 12 new premium motion elements, including intros, speaker cards, quotes, headlines, and typewriter effects, giving creators everything they need to produce high-quality videos from start to finish without needing to use different tools.

Integration with Eleven v3

We’ve made significant progress in delivering more natural, expressive, and precise voice experiences. We’ve added integration for Eleven v3, ElevenLabs’ most expressive text-to-speech model, giving you greater control over expressiveness. We also added language-specific defaults to ensure the voice panel aligns automatically with the user’s chosen language, streamlining workflows for global enterprise teams.

Streamlined access control for seamless collaboration

Managing users and collaboration at scale requires simple, reliable tools. Our latest updates introduce new permissioning functionality and seat activation improvements, giving you more control over access while streamlining the process of adding and managing team members.

New permissioning functionality

We now directly enable the ability to invite someone to your account within the new share project or video experience, making collaboration more seamless and immediate. For enterprises, this capability is especially valuable because projects often involve cross-functional teams, external partners, or global stakeholders who need quick and secure access.

Seat activation improvements

We’ve refreshed the enterprise invite modal to make it easier for admins to review suggested users and issue mass invites with confidence. For large organizations, onboarding and managing teams efficiently is critical. This upgrade streamlines the setup process, reduces administrative overhead, and ensures the right people are added quickly and securely.

Looking ahead

These July enhancements demonstrate our ongoing commitment to empowering you teams with intuitive, scalable, and high-impact video solutions. From seamless screen recording and expressive voice controls to premium visual elements and streamlined collaboration, HeyGen continues to evolve to meet the complex needs of global organizations.

Experience how these updates can transform your video production workflows, elevate content quality, and give your teams the tools to scale with confidence and control.

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HeyGen’s June 2025 release brings smarter, faster, and more secure video creation to enterprises with AI-powered scripting, Quick Commands, Scene Split, enhanced security, and improved team collaboration.

June was an exciting month at HeyGen, highlighted by our inaugural keynote, where we showcased the future of AI-driven video creation. Building upon this milestone, our latest product enhancements empower Enterprise teams to create impactful, high-quality videos faster, smarter, and with greater collaboration and security than ever before.

Whether your objective is to elevate internal training, streamline corporate communications, or captivate audiences with marketing content, these innovations are designed to dramatically boost productivity and ensure exceptional results every time. Here’s how these improvements translate directly into benefits for your organization:

Accelerate content creation with intelligent workflows

Our latest enhancements empower your content teams to work smarter, not harder. We've introduced tools that simplify the video production process, allowing for quicker iterations and more dynamic storytelling.

Quick commands: Instant editing at your fingertips

Imagine effortlessly enhancing your videos without interrupting your workflow. With Quick Commands, simply type '/' within your script editor to instantly unlock a suite of powerful editing and enhancement tools. From GPT script writer and Voice Director to advanced visual adjustments, your team can seamlessly execute edits, significantly reducing production cycles and unlocking features you didn’t even know you had.

This translates to significant time savings for your content creators. With Quick Commands, your teams can quickly refine scripts, add effects, and make on-the-fly adjustments, accelerating content turnaround times and boosting overall productivity. It also aids in the discovery of powerful (yet sometimes hidden) features, ensuring your teams leverage the full potential of HeyGen.

GPT script writer: AI-powered scripting and refinement

Great videos start with great scripts. Our GPT-powered script assistant provides enterprise teams with intelligent, on-demand scripting support directly in your editor. Generate polished, brand-consistent scripts quickly, refine your messaging effortlessly, and maintain the highest standards of content quality across all your communications.

For large organizations, content consistency and rapid script generation are crucial. The GPT Script Writer can help standardize messaging, generate initial drafts for various campaigns, and provide intelligent suggestions for refining existing scripts. This empowers marketing, training, and communications teams to produce high-quality, on-brand video content at an unprecedented pace, reducing reliance on external copywriting resources and ensuring consistent brand voice across all video assets.

Scene split: Granular control over pacing

Structure and pacing can make or break viewer engagement. Scene Split gives you unprecedented control to precisely segment any scene, enhancing narrative flow and ensuring your message is compelling and clear. Perfect for training videos, key announcements, or engaging storytelling, this feature enables you to deliver content exactly as intended. This is particularly valuable for complex training modules, detailed product demonstrations, or impactful corporate communications where precise timing can significantly enhance clarity and retention.

Enhanced security and streamlined user management

Managing users and ensuring compliance is paramount for enterprise organizations. Our June releases bring significant improvements to engagement tracking, user consent, and administrative oversight, giving you peace of mind and more efficient team management.

New share page: Gain deeper insights and collaboration

Understanding how your content performs is critical for your team’s success. Our revamped Share Page not only consolidates video comments for easy review but also provides essential engagement metrics like views, shares, watch time, and completion rates. Plus, viewers can instantly translate your videos into multiple languages, extending your reach and ensuring your message resonates globally.

Split out consent: Delegated avatar usage for scalability

Scale your video production securely and effortlessly across teams and trusted external partners. Our Split-out Consent feature allows enterprise customers to delegate avatar video creation rights independently from avatar management. Retain absolute control over compliance and usage, ensuring secure, efficient collaboration across your entire organization.

This is a game-changer for large-scale avatar deployments and team collaboration. For organizations with numerous spokespeople, brand ambassadors, or internal subject matter experts, this feature allows designated video producers or marketing teams to create content using pre-approved avatars without needing direct access to the original avatar creator's account.

Admin control notifications: Keeping you informed

Efficient team management requires clear oversight. We've introduced robust notification enhancements to simplify the administration of your growing teams on HeyGen:

• Admins receive notifications when new free users sign up for HeyGen within your domain.
• Free users see in-app notifications when a team plan for their domain is set up.
• Free users see their request is pending until an admin accepts it within notifications.

These consolidated notifications provide critical insights for administrators. Knowing when new free users from your domain sign up allows you to identify potential team members who could benefit from a full enterprise license, facilitating seamless onboarding and team expansion. Furthermore, the clear communication to free users about pending requests ensures transparency and reduces friction in joining your established team plan. This empowers administrators to maintain better oversight, manage licenses more effectively, and ensure that all relevant users are integrated into your HeyGen ecosystem.

Ready to unlock HeyGen's latest innovations?

These powerful enhancements reflect our unwavering commitment to providing enterprise customers with intuitive, secure, and scalable video solutions tailored specifically to complex organizational demands. From advanced editing capabilities and AI-driven scripting to robust administrative oversight, HeyGen continually evolves to support your organization's ambitious goals.

Discover firsthand how these June 2025 product updates can revolutionize your enterprise video production workflows, dramatically improve content quality, and scale confidently and securely.

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Meet the most powerful AI video creation platform ever built. You can control tone, pacing, gestures, and emotion with unmatched precision, all through an intuitive editor that puts you in charge.

In video storytelling, delivery is everything. It’s not just about

what

you say, it’s

how

you say it.

The subtlest shift in tone, the briefest pause, and the smallest gesture can transform a story from one that is merely heard into one that is deeply felt. And now, with HeyGen’s AI Studio, you’re in full creative control. It empowers you to shape your story with unmatched precision, crafting experiences that resonate deeply with your audience.

Forget the cameras, the studios, and the endless learning curves. We're putting powerful tools in your hands, giving you granular control over each moment and ensuring consistent, high-quality videos that resonate. This isn't just about making video creation easier. It's about raising the bar for what's possible, putting you squarely in the director's chair, regardless of your prior experience.

The way you create videos has transformed. Welcome to AI Studio.

Today, over 15 million people across 179 countries—including more than 100,000 paying active users—use HeyGen to share their stories and create engaging, high-quality videos.

Born from extensive user feedback, AI Studio is HeyGen's fresh, intuitive core. We've fundamentally rethought how video creation should feel—accessible, intuitive, and empowering for everyone.

Gone are the days of complex interfaces and wrestling with timelines. We've streamlined the process, creating a workspace that feels as familiar as your favorite word processor or presentation software. And it all starts with a script.

Unprecedented avatar control: Fine-tuning every detail

We believe in control over your on-screen talent (think avatars). These A-roll controls aren't just about features; they're about empowering you to cross the invisible quality threshold – that point where your audience no longer perceives the technology behind the creation and instead becomes fully immersed in your message. By giving you command over the subtle yet crucial aspects of delivery, we're helping you create authentic and impactful videos.

With Voice Director, you conduct your avatar's performance like a seasoned maestro. Emphasize a phrase with commanding power. Whisper a word, drawing your audience into a moment of intimacy. Pause for dramatic effect, letting the silence amplify your message.

Want even more control? With Voice Mirroring, your avatar can replicate your own voice, capturing the unique melody, inflection, and emotional nuance that makes your delivery distinctly yours, bridging the uncanny valley with stunning accuracy. Transcending simple text-to-speech, this technology lends an authentic and personal touch to your visual stories.

But it’s not just about the sound. You now have unprecedented control over your talent's visual presence.

Infuse life into your video avatar with natural, expressive movements using Gesture Control. For those using their own video footage, Gesture Control lets you link specific words or phrases in your script to pre-recorded gestures, enabling deliberate and impactful visual cues.

With Avatar Movement Preview, you can also see exactly how your avatar will move and interact within your scene before you finalize, eliminating guesswork and ensuring your vision is perfectly realized.

Because ‘close enough’ simply isn’t good enough when you’re striving for genuine connection. This isn't just about creating videos; it's about crafting experiences.

Inside the Build with Leo Rofe and Adam Halper

Want to see how AI Studio came together? Join product managers Leo Rofe and Adam Halper as they offer an exclusive glimpse in our "Inside the Build" series. Hear firsthand about the ideas, challenges, and key moments that shaped our latest innovations.

In the works: A look ahead at AI video innovation

The innovation doesn't stop here. Here’s a glimpse into our upcoming editing capabilities, designed to give you the same level of creative power over your supporting visuals:

• Camera Control: Imagine directing virtual camera movements within your scene, adding dynamism and visual interest without ever picking up a physical camera.
• Premium Motion Elements: Elevate your videos with professionally designed motion graphics and animations that are seamlessly integrated and customizable.
• Magic Apply B-roll: Effortlessly find and integrate relevant B-roll footage that intelligently aligns with your script and the overall tone of your video.
• Generative Elements: Explore the power of AI to generate unique visual elements on demand, tailored to your specific needs and creative vision.
• Prompt-Based Editing: Describe the visual changes you want to see, and let AI intelligently edit your B-roll, making post-production faster and more intuitive than ever before.

These upcoming features represent our ongoing commitment to pushing the boundaries of AI video generation, providing you with a comprehensive suite of tools to bring your most ambitious video ideas to life end-to-end.

We're not just offering tools; we're providing a canvas for your vision, a stage for your voice, and the power to connect with your audience on a deeper level.

HeyGen is a tool for the masses. It’s a new medium for the video itself — a dynamic, malleable material underlying video that can grow, shift, and generate whatever you want it to be.

This is your invitation to play and experiment with a new medium to free your stories.

Watch the keynote recording to see CEO Joshua Xu and team unveil a new era of AI video:

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These new capability makes it easier than ever to create professional-quality video content that sounds real, looks expressive, and captures attention.

Creating a video should feel like directing, not debugging. And with HeyGen’s latest release, we’re helping you unlock your inner auteur.

Today we’re introducing Voice Director, live now on HeyGen. This new capability makes it easier than ever to create professional-quality video content that sounds real, looks expressive, and captures attention.

We’re also launching Avatar IV, rolling out now. Avatar IV is a next-generation AI avatar engine that transforms a single image into a fully animated video with natural voice sync, expressive face dynamics, and — for the first time — authentic hand gestures.

Whether you’re launching a product, explaining a concept, or telling a story, you can now direct your AI avatar like a seasoned filmmaker – with natural prompts, intuitive controls, and zero prior expertise required.

Voice Director: Your words, delivered exactly right

Whether directing avatars or live actors, you know that vocal delivery can make or break the scene. It’s the difference between sounding robotic and sounding real.

With Voice Director, you control how your avatar delivers every word. Using simple natural language prompts, like “emphasize this” or “add excitement,” you can instantly shape tone, pacing, and emotion to match your message.

Our Panda Voice Engine handles the nuance behind the scenes, automatically adapting vocal delivery to fit the context of your script. And when paired with our Expressive Avatars, Voice Director brings your on-screen persona to life. These avatars automatically match their facial expressions to the voice tone, enhancing realism and engagement.

Whether you’re creating tutorials, ads, or social videos, Voice Director ensures your message sounds intentional, expressive, and always on brand.

Voice Mirroring: Make it sound like you

Need even more precision? With Voice Mirroring, you can upload a short voice recording of yourself delivering your message. HeyGen will replicate not just what you say, but how you say it. Your unique rhythm, emotion, pacing, and personality are replicated directly into your avatar’s voice.

Whether you're aiming for authoritative, conversational, empathetic, or energetic, Voice Mirroring ensures your content sounds just like you, without re-recording every take.

Talk. Gesture. Perform. All from one photo

With just one photo and your script, your avatar will talk, react, and make gestures based on the context of the script. From podcasts to pets, from your digital twin to unique characters, any story can be brought to life.

Start creating today

With these releases, HeyGen is closing the gap between AI video generation and true video production – minus the cameras, crews, and complicated tools. You don’t need to be a technical expert, you just need your message and vision, and we’ll help you bring it to life.

Try it out and see how effortless high-impact video can be. We can’t wait to see what you create.

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Seedance 2.0 is now fully integrated into HeyGen, bringing cinematic AI video generation, realistic digital twins, and complete video creation workflows into one platform.

Video production has always rewarded scale. The studios, the crews, the gear, the post-production budgets were not arbitrary barriers. They were genuine requirements. Delivering cinematic AI video at the level audiences expect demanded infrastructure that most creators, educators, and communicators simply did not have access to.

AI changed that equation, and today we are taking it further.'

Seedance 2.0 is now fully integrated across HeyGen. The most cinematic AI video model in the world runs inside every tool you create with, from your first prompt to your finished AI video. Your AI digital twin moves through cinematic footage with the kind of production quality that previously required a full crew to achieve. This is not a feature update. It is the next evolution of AI digital twin video, woven into the platform you already use.

What this integration actually means

Seedance 2.0 is a video generation model built for cinematic output. Physics-accurate motion, director-level camera control, dynamic lighting, and footage that holds up next to anything shot on location. Inside HeyGen, it becomes the visual engine powering three distinct tools, each designed for a different creative workflow.

The result is an AI video platform where a single prompt produces a complete, publish-ready video. Your AI digital twin moves through real cinematic environments with locked character consistency across every shot. And b-roll is no longer a budget decision. It is a prompt.

HeyGen is the only platform where Seedance 2.0 works with real, verified human faces. Seedance does not allow human faces on its public API, and the first-party consent and identity verification infrastructure we have built is exactly why your AI digital twin can appear in this cinematic AI video footage when no other platform can offer it.

One platform, 3 ways to create with Seedance 2.0

Avatar Shots

Avatar Shots is where identity meets cinema. It places your verified AI digital twin inside Seedance 2.0-generated footage with lifelike character movement that carries real physical weight across every shot type and environment you choose to create in. Your likeness stays consistent across every cut, every angle, every scene transition. Plus, multiple AI avatars can share a single cinematic scene, which means the full range of human communication, from solo presentations to multi-person conversations, is now available inside a single workflow.

Video Agent

Video Agent takes a single prompt and builds a complete, publish-ready video around it. Script, structure, motion graphics, editing, and your AI digital twin in cinematic footage are all handled automatically, with output up to three minutes long. There is no editing suite, no version twelve that never ships. The output is a finished video, starring you. It’s designed for teams and creators who need to produce consistently across campaigns, courses, and channels without rebuilding the production workflow every time.

The AI Video Generator

The AI Video Generator gives you direct access to Seedance 2.0 for cinematic AI video and b-roll generation. Describe a scene and generate it from text. Drop in a product photo, a location reference, or any visual, and Seedance 2.0 builds footage around it. Use first and last frame controls to set exactly where a scene starts and ends, and we’ll generates everything in between with seamless visual continuity across the full clip.

The identity layer that makes cinematic AI video possible

The most important thing about this integration is not the footage quality, even though the footage quality is extraordinary. It is that every frame of AI video produced here is anchored to a verified human identity.

Your AI digital twin is built from your face and your likeness, protected by first-party consent infrastructure, and owned entirely by you. As AI video generation becomes more powerful and more accessible, the question of who appears in a video and whether that person actually consented becomes more consequential. HeyGen was built on the principle that the answer to that question should always be clear.

Rated #1 for most realistic avatars by G2, the world's leading software review platform, HeyGen has always understood that realism without trust is just a better deepfake. The Seedance 2.0 integration extends that philosophy to every frame of cinematic AI video behind your avatar, not just the avatar itself.

Whatever you want to make, you can make it now

The tools are here. The quality is there. The identity protection is built in from day one. Explore Avatar Shots, Video Agent, and the AI Video Generator inside HeyGen today.

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In December, we shipped updates designed to make HeyGen easier to use and easier to trust. From a new changelog that keeps you informed, to Voice Doctor for refining your digital twin’s voice, to a simpler avatars experience, these improvements reflect our ongoing efforts to bring a simpler, better experience to HeyGen customers.

What’s new

Last month, we shipped a set of updates focused on clarity, control, and simpler workflows across HeyGen. Watch the video or read below to learn how.

A new way to keep up: What’s new

If AI moves fast, HeyGen moves faster. Our users often ask where they can keep up with our latest releases and review what's shipped in the past.

Introducing the HeyGen changelog. “What’s new” brings all product updates into one always-on feed. New features. Meaningful improvements. Fixes, refinements, and maintenance updates.

To access it, tap the notifications bell, then select What’s new. You’ll see a live list of release notes, always up to date. You can also subscribe to receive updates directly in your inbox.

Voice Doctor

Your Digital Twin should look and sound just like you. Introducing Voice Doctor.

Voice Doctor is a chat-based interface that lets you refine your voice after creation, no technical tuning required. Too much reverb? Voice sounds flat? Describe what feels off in your own words, then listen to improved previews until it’s just right. Access Voice Doctor from the voice module on the avatars page or the voice module inside AI Studio.

Note: Voice Doctor only works with voices you cloned or generated yourself.

A simpler home for your avatars

We also updated the avatars experience to make it easier to find, manage, and improve your avatars in one place.

With a clearer layout and a more intuitive flow, common actions now take fewer clicks and less context switching. Whether you’re reviewing looks, improving an avatar, or starting something new, everything is easier to access and manage from a single view.

Looking ahead

These updates are part of our ongoing effort to simplify creation across HeyGen. We’re continuing to focus on reducing friction, sharpening quality, and making everyday workflows feel more intuitive. More improvements are already on the way this month.

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In January, we shipped updates that touch every part of the HeyGen experience — from the moment you create your avatar to the way you produce, edit, and export your videos. A rebuilt avatar creation flow gets you started in seconds. A new production tool turns your ideas into fully produced video. A redesigned script panel gives you more control in the editor. And two new plans make sure nothing slows you down, whether you're a solo creator or scaling across a team.

Create an avatar in 15 seconds

We rebuilt avatar creation from the ground up. The old flow took minutes, asked too many questions, and most people didn't finish. Now it takes 15 seconds.

Turn on your webcam, follow a short guided prompt, and record for 15 seconds. That single recording captures your appearance, voice, motion, and consent — everything you need to start making videos immediately. No lighting setup, no script to read, no multiple takes.

This isn't a stripped-down version of your avatar. It's a real starting point. Whenever you're ready, you can add more footage, upload photos, and build out additional looks. Quality grows with you, on your timeline — but you can start creating right now.

New Video Agent

You just created your avatar in 15 seconds. Now put it to work. Video Agent 2.0 is HeyGen's AI video production tool — describe the video you want, and it handles the rest.

What makes Video Agent different from other AI video tools is that you're not prompting into the void. It shows you the complete creative blueprint before anything renders — your avatar, your visuals, your scenes, all laid out. You review the plan, refine it through conversation ("make scene 3 shorter," "change the intro graphic"), and approve before it builds.

Editable motion graphics

Every motion element Video Agent generates — text overlays, graphics, layouts — is fully editable in AI Studio after rendering. A small change means a small change, not a full rebuild. You're directing, not guessing.

Contextual visual storytelling

When your avatar explains a concept, the visuals support that explanation. This isn't generic b-roll layered on top — it's motion graphics and imagery that respond to what's being said, scene by scene. The result is production-grade video with the kind of visual storytelling that used to require a dedicated editor.

Whether you're building a course, creating a product walkthrough, or recording a LinkedIn update, Video Agent turns your ideas into publish-ready video — from blueprint to finished cut.

Redesigned script panel

We redesigned the script panel inside AI Studio to be simpler and faster to work with. The new panel puts everything in one clean view: your script input, pause controls, pronunciation, and voice delivery settings. No more jumping between tabs or hunting for options.

Inline pronunciation

Highlight any word, click pronunciation, and assign it to a glossary — all without leaving the script. You can preview how it sounds before rendering, manage multiple glossaries, and toggle them on or off depending on the project. If you've built custom pronunciation rules for brand names or technical terms, they now apply automatically as you type.

Voice delivery controls

Voice Director, Voice Mirroring, and Enhance Voice are now accessible from a single menu directly in the script panel. Less navigation, more control over how your avatar sounds.

Auto-split and preserved formatting

Paste a long script and your text formatting stays intact. When you're ready to break it into scenes, hit auto-split and the panel does it for you — no manual cutting required.

Pro Plan

We launched a new Pro Plan at $99 per month, built for creators who outgrew the Creator plan but don't need a team workspace.

Pro includes 2,000 generative credits - 10x what Creator offers - plus 4K video export and translation proofread as standard. If you've been juggling add-on packs or hitting credit caps mid-project, this plan replaces that friction with predictable, all-in pricing.

It's designed for high-volume solo creators, course builders producing hours of content monthly, and professionals who need premium output quality without managing a second seat. One plan, one price, no surprises.

HeyGen for Business

For teams, we launched HeyGen for Business - a plan designed specifically for organizations that need shared workspaces, governance, and scale.

Business gives your team 5x more generation capacity, videos and translations up to 60 minutes, five custom avatars for your organization, and self-serve SSO, all with centralized billing and enterprise-grade security. Your team also gets access to the latest models, including Avatar IV, Sora 2, and Veo 3.

Whether you're producing training content, localizing marketing campaigns, or scaling video across departments, HeyGen for Business gives everyone on the team the tools to create with the admin controls to keep everything on brand and secure.

Looking ahead

That's all for last month. Keep an eye on HeyGen socials throughout February to make sure you never miss an update.

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