D-ID and Dailies both produce a talking-head video that nobody had to film. D-ID generates it: you type a script or upload an audio file, pick a stock presenter, a photo or a personal avatar made from a video of you, and the avatar speaks. Dailies records it: the calls you hold in Chrome on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom become captioned vertical shorts a few minutes after you hang up. D-ID needs a script and no call. Dailies needs calls and no script. The rest of this page says what follows from that.
Checked against D-ID’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who advise clients on calls and want the best passages as captioned shorts, in their own words, with nothing to script.
D-ID
For teams and developers who want a presenter generated from a script, an audio file or a photo, or an interactive avatar agent, through a studio or an API.
| Feature | Dailies | D-ID |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | NoIts videos are generated from a script or an audio file, and a presenter |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | NoIt records no call |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | NoYour webcam records the footage and the consent statement of a personal avatar, not a call |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | Not statedIts videos are generated from a script; we found no clipping of a recording on the pages we read |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | PartlyThe canvas of a generated video can be set to wide, square or vertical |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | PartlySubtitles as a separate SRT file, not embedded in the video, according to its help centre |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not statedThe speech is generated from your script, or taken from an audio file you upload |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | Not statedIts help centre says a personal avatar keeps the original background of its footage |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | Not statedIts studio supports 119 languages; French is named for its agents, not singled out for the studio |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | No |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | PartlyVideo Translate works on a video you upload |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not statedIts site says videos are ready to download, embed or share |
D-ID presents itself as a digital human platform. In its studio, you type a script or upload an audio file of up to five minutes, choose a stock presenter, a single frontal photo or a personal avatar, and it generates the video; the canvas can be wide, square or vertical. A personal avatar is a digital twin made from a video of you: one minute for an Express avatar, three for a Premium+ avatar; its help centre describes one to two minutes of you speaking naturally, uploaded or recorded with a webcam, with the original background kept. Creating one includes a consent statement, which its help centre says must be recorded by webcam while reading aloud a passcode shown on screen; D-ID then checks that the person consenting is the person in the footage. It also clones voices, translates an uploaded video into as many as 29 languages with the lips adapted, and offers interactive avatar agents and an API. Its FAQ says the studio supports 119 languages and that videos carry an AI watermark, which Enterprise users can customise but not remove.
D-ID turns text or an audio file into speech on a face. You decide every word in advance, which suits a message that has to be exact. Dailies keeps what you said without preparing it: the answer you gave a client who asked a real question. It picks up to eight such passages per call and removes the silences, the filler words and the false starts.
With D-ID, the presenter is generated from a stock presenter, a photo or a video of you lasting one to three minutes, and a personal avatar requires a consent statement recorded by webcam first. With Dailies, the picture is the recording of the call: your webcam, on a track of its own, or your guest’s tile cropped on their face. The room behind you can be blurred or replaced, and one switch blurs your guests and disguises their voice.
D-ID’s help centre says its subtitles are provided as a separate SRT file, on the Pro plan and above, and are not embedded in the video; that article dates from May 2025. Dailies burns animated captions into each short, in one of fifteen styles, with a line above the short that says which question it answers. A short is ready to post as it is downloaded.
A video from a photo and a few lines of text, with no call and no camera. Interactive avatar agents that answer in real time, an API to generate videos from your own software, and Video Translate, which translates an uploaded video with the speaker’s voice cloned and the lips adapted. Dailies offers nothing of the kind. Its whole scope is the calls it recorded in Chrome, and the shorts you then download in Full HD and post yourself.
We found no call recording on the D-ID pages we read. Its studio generates a video from a script or an audio file and a presenter, and its Video Translate works on a video you upload. Dailies records the call itself, from a Chrome extension, and cuts its shorts from it.
With a video of yourself and a consent statement. Its site speaks of a one-minute video for an Express avatar and of three minutes for a Premium+ avatar; its help centre describes one to two minutes of you speaking naturally, uploaded or recorded with a webcam. The consent statement must be recorded by webcam while reading aloud a passcode shown on screen, and D-ID checks that the person consenting is the one in the footage.
As a separate file, according to its help centre: subtitles are available on the Pro plan and above and are provided as an SRT file, not embedded in the video. That article dates from May 2025 and the product may have changed since. Dailies burns animated captions into every short, in one of fifteen styles.
Yes. Its FAQ says the canvas of a video can be set to wide, square or vertical. An avatar video is generated from your script rather than cut from a recording, so there is no passage to pick and no speaker to reframe on.
Only if what you want is short videos of you to post, and you hold calls. Dailies has no avatar, no API and no interactive agent: it records the calls you hold in Chrome and cuts captioned vertical shorts from them. If you have a script and no calls, an avatar tool such as D-ID is the right kind of tool.
Add Dailies to Chrome, record the call you were going to have anyway, and watch its shorts a few minutes after you hang up.
Add to ChromeWhat this page says of D-ID comes from the pages below, published by its maker and read on October 1, 2026. Where its site says nothing, the table says “not stated” rather than “no”. Products change: write to hello@berenger.dev if something here is out of date. D-ID is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.