HeyGen
“Be your best self, every time. Create clear, confident AI videos with your Personal Avatar—your face and voice, without filming every video.”
by HeyGen
Our review
HeyGen generates talking-avatar videos and can translate existing videos into other languages while matching voice and lip movement. Popular for marketing, sales outreach and multilingual content.
Pros
- Impressive video translation
- Custom avatars of yourself
Cons
- Free plan is limited and watermarked
Being used for
- AI avatar and talking-head videos45 posts · X · Reddit · HN
- Voiceovers and narration21 posts · X · Reddit · HN
- Cloning a voice10 posts · X · Reddit · HN
- Making ads9 posts · X · Reddit · HN
- Dubbing and translating videos6 posts · X · Reddit · HN
Based on 62 public posts on X, Reddit, and Hacker News that describe using it · checked Oct 23, 2026
Also does
DistributionGood fit
UGC-style avatar ads and translated spokesperson videos.
Use cases · Hear from users
Real posts from people using HeyGen on X, sorted by engagement (English first).
Today, I used @HeyGen_Official Digital Twin powered by Avatar IV, and it felt surprisingly real. It wasn’t just an avatar on the screen — it felt like me. It copied my gestures, facial expressions, and even the way I speak. The movements looked natural, not robotic — and for a…
31 likes · 9 reposts · 35 repliesView on X ↗See Fine woman…😫❤️ She’s AI… A very simple Nano banana + Kling + ElevenLabs + HeyGen workflow, I made this 5 months ago! I have a lot to teach y’all… can’t wait to start working on classes for you!!! https://t.co/FL9NrwxVZv
61 likes · 5 reposts · 9 repliesView on X ↗On June 1st, I made an ad for @Heineken, and I received a lot of questions in my dm about how I created it and which AI tools I used. So today, I'll be sharing a quick guide on how I made my Heineken ad using invideo Agent One. Invideo Agent One is one of the best AI agents I'…
30 likes · 2 reposts · 14 repliesView on X ↗I tried the new image2lipsync of @HeyGen_Official The first test is mixed. Some turned out nice, others were only meh, once without lip movement. Granted, this was a hard one, but I used the dry vocals, not the actual song (that worked even worse). Room for improvement☺️ https:…
27 likes · 5 reposts · 4 repliesView on X ↗No camera. No studio. No actors. Even Me talking is AI. 🎬 I made this entire 44s promo from a single character sheet. Here's the full workflow 👇 1️⃣ Character sheet → locks a consistent face across every shot 2️⃣ Studio shot → @higgsfield MCP (GPT Image 2.5): podcast s…
12 likes · 2 reposts · 5 repliesView on X ↗“Self Control”. Made a little music video to this @sunomusic song I made that I really love. Here’s the tools I used to make this one: Images: #Midjourney Animation: @heygen_official @hailuoai_official - Midjourney. #ai #aiart #aivideo #aimusic #suno #hailuo #minimax #heygen…
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I made a feature last month that replicates a physical product by putting it into my app, and made videos about it. Each video just keeps showing the digital product in a clothing shop together with viral music (it matters!). This explicitly shows the app’s feature on the phone…
12 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗I use many different creative AI tools everyday and recently started experimenting with @HeyGen_Official. I just wanted to commend the HeyGen team for their excellent community resources and documentation. 👏 As a product manager by day, I know creating quality tutorials, guides…
6 likes · 1 reposts · 3 repliesView on X ↗My favorite AI video production tool is @HeyGen_Official I made a demo video on how to use HeyGen as a complete beginner. You can generate personalized videos with any avatar of your choice. https://t.co/qHD5mSYhex I used @SupademoHQ to create the demo.
9 likes · 1 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗I made myself an AI Clone that posts to social media for me. It's fully automated the creation and posting of talking head videos to TikTok, IG, YouTube & more. https://t.co/ISiwEIPamM Imagine creating videos of yourself talking to the camera - without ever picking up a camer…
3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗This is a seriously solid release from HeyGen. Audio is very important for AI realism, so having the generated voice match both your natural pacing and the actual acoustics of the scene is a huge deal. I've been using Heygen for a long time now. Heygen was an important part of m…
8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗✅5 AI tools I used personally (paid for some of them) and found worth sharing about. First two are for content creation: 👇 1. @HeyGen : I create video content and this helped me create a video with my Avatar. My editor asked me if this was AI generated but my friends couldn’t…
7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗I built an AI twin of myself to make my reels. Voice: cloned with ElevenLabs Face: HeyGen digital twin Edit: Claude Code writes the whole video in code First one is live. Every frame below was made without a camera 👇 https://t.co/s5TEycm4hv
1 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗@HeyGen @heyhollyx @nkwrnr Is Scamming People? Creators Need to Be Aware.Paid Accounts Deactivated Without Warning. Here’s What Happened to Me Thread 👇 I’ve been using @HeyGen since May 2026 and previously recommended it to my students and a community of 10,000+ creators
0 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗AI avatars make me curious: would I use one in my own content workflow? So I tried it myself with @HeyGen. The result surprised me. 👇 https://t.co/zWV8vMbGlK
0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗@HeyGen I tried the Heygen video model via API with my own prompt. The API doc says I can send a prompt up to 32k chars, mine was around 8k and I got rejected because the prompt exceeded 5k. Can you please fix this?
1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗I tried @HeyGen_Official Video Translate! I used a hindi video sample and asked it to translate into English with lip-sync. Here are the results... (1/2) Video Credits: @FITTRwithsquats https://t.co/qZkpGu2jot
1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗I used to charge $200 for these short video hooks. I made this for less than $20 in credits on HeyGen and got 1000's of visits within an hour. So why would you pay more for it? (see my prompts below 👇) https://t.co/q1hT6FCHG2
1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗So somehow I managed to start working with The @gregisenberg -The 2nd video I made for him crossed 1M+ views in less than 24 hours. - It's at 1.6M with 160K likes as I type this. -The first video we posted is at 71K. I'm not surprised. I knew it was gonna rip. Last week I…
3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗Dei um rosto para o vídeo gerado pelo @NotebookLM com a @HeyGen_Official . Utilizei o vídeo que o NotebookLM gerou com base no texto da última edição da minha newsletter e combinei com um Avatar IA da HeyGen. E não é que ficou bom? Acompanha a thread 🧵 https://t.co/psAvjWQ7Vz
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