Shiken

Best Synthesia Alternative for Training

Shiken vs Synthesia

Synthesia is an excellent AI avatar video studio. Shiken matches the text-to-video avatars and voice cloning — then adds AI roleplays, coaching scorecards, quizzes, a full LMS and the ability to turn any meeting or document into a course, so your videos become training people actually practise and get scored on.

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The Shiken AI video editor showing a ten-scene story, a scene thumbnail rail, the video canvas, a per-scene script box with an estimated read time, and a layers panel with text, shape, media and motion tools.
Feature
Shiken
Synthesia
AI avatar video generation
Yes
Yes
Text-to-video in 140+ languages
Yes
Yes
Custom avatars & voice clones
Yes
Yes
Templates & brand-kit styling
Yes
Yes
AI Roleplays (spoken practice)
Yes
No
AI Coaching Scorecards
Yes
No
Meeting recorder & call intelligence
Yes
No
Turn meetings & docs into microlearning
Yes
No
Built-in LMS / LXP (SCORM, certs, paths)
Yes
No
Language learning roleplays (40+ languages)
Yes
No
Delivery via Slack / Teams / embed
Yes
No
Free forever plan
Yes
No

Why teams switch from Synthesia

What that looks like in Shiken

Rendering the video is the easy part. Shiken puts it into a path and tells you whether it landed.

The Shiken AI video editor showing a ten-scene story, a scene thumbnail rail, the video canvas, a per-scene script box with an estimated read time, and a layers panel with text, shape, media and motion tools.
Scene rail, canvas, per-scene script and layer tools in one editor.
A Diabetes Onboarding Path drawn as a winding trail: a completed slides step, steps marked Start for two courses, and a locked video story on type 1 versus type 2 diabetes, with the trail continuing past the edge.
The finished video dropped into a path, with quizzes and practice around it.

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