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HeyGen Tutorial 2025: How to Create AI Avatar Videos (Step-by-Step)

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HeyGen Tutorial 2025: How to Create AI Avatar Videos (Step-by-Step)

The fastest zero-to-first-avatar-video walkthrough.

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It answers 2 questions

  1. How are founders using AI avatars and UGC-style actors instead of hiring creators?
  2. Which AI avatar tool should I use to make talking-head videos?

Read with it

  1. Video How I Clone Myself With HeyGen & ElevenLabs: Complete Tutorial YouTube tutorial
  2. HeyGen's own write-up of cloning your voice so it fits the scene a digital twin is placed in, with listening samples. heygen.com Article HeyGen Voice: Scene-Aware Voice Cloning for Talking Videos HeyGen Research
  3. The clearest map of the avatar landscape and which use cases are actually working. x.com Thread New a16z thesis: AI avatars (market map) Justine Moore (a16z)
  4. HeyGen's CEO explains how avatar video is assembled under the hood and where it breaks. open.spotify.com Podcast Can AI replace the camera? with Joshua Xu from HeyGen No Priors (Sarah Guo & Elad Gil)
  5. Founder plus investor on why 40,000+ businesses pay for avatar video. cognitiverevolution.ai Podcast AI Avatars & the Future of Video, with HeyGen CEO Joshua Xu and Benchmark's Victor Lazarte The Cognitive Revolution
  6. Covers the consent and deepfake guardrails a founder must understand before cloning anyone. open.spotify.com Podcast HeyGen's Josh Xu on trust, safety and interactive avatars Unsupervised Learning (Jacob Effron)
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