Synthesia and Dailies both spare you the camera, the lights and the retakes. Synthesia does it by generating the video: you give it a script, a document or a slide deck, and an AI avatar presents it in the language you pick. It is built for companies that produce training, onboarding and internal communication. Dailies does it by recording what already happens: the calls you hold in Chrome with clients, from which it cuts captioned vertical shorts. Synthesia needs a script and no call. Dailies needs calls and no script.
Checked against Synthesia’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For consultants and founders who advise clients on calls and want those passages as captioned shorts to post, with nothing to write.
Synthesia
For company teams that turn scripts, documents and slide decks into training, onboarding or internal videos, in many languages.
| Feature | Dailies | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | PartlyIts videos are generated from a prompt, a link or a file; its screen recorder is made for narrated screen recordings |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | Not statedA screen recorder rather than a bot; its pages do not mention calls |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | Not statedYour webcam films the script your avatar is made from; a camera track in its screen recorder is not stated |
| 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 | PartlyA video can be set to portrait 9:16; you then adjust its elements to fit |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | PartlyClosed captions, generated in the language of the narration |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | PartlyIn its AI Screen Recorder, which removes filler words and pauses |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | PartlyA Personal Avatar keeps its original background; its site also lists customisable backgrounds |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | YesFrench among more than 160 languages; its site exists in French |
| 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 | PartlyExisting videos can be uploaded to be dubbed or translated |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not statedShared by link, embedded, exported to an LMS or downloaded as MP4 |
Synthesia is an AI video platform for businesses. It turns a prompt, a link or a file (PPTX, PDF, DOCX, TXT) into a video presented by an AI avatar, chosen among more than 240 stock avatars or made from you, in over 160 languages. A Personal Avatar is created by reading a script in front of your webcam, or by uploading two to three minutes of footage, followed by a consent video; it keeps the background it was filmed on, and your voice is cloned with it. A Studio Avatar is filmed in a partner studio or on your own green screen and takes one to seven business days. A video can be set to landscape, portrait 9:16 or square, with closed captions generated in the language of the narration. Synthesia also dubs and translates existing videos, offers brand kits, templates, interactive videos and SCORM export, and has an AI Screen Recorder, a Chrome extension for narrated screen recordings that removes filler words and pauses.
Synthesia starts from text. A script, a document or a slide deck becomes the avatar’s narration, which makes it a good fit for content that is written before it is spoken: a procedure, a course, an announcement. Dailies starts from speech. The words of a short are the ones you said to a client during a call, in answer to a question they really asked. One asks you to write, the other asks you to have calls.
Synthesia’s pages address teams: training, onboarding, sales enablement and internal communication, with brand kits, SCORM export to an LMS and analytics. Its videos are shared by link, embedded or exported. Dailies is made for one person who posts under their own name: up to eight vertical 9:16 shorts per call, captions burned in, silences and false starts removed, downloaded in Full HD for LinkedIn, TikTok, Reels or Shorts.
A Synthesia Personal Avatar asks for a script read in front of your webcam, or two to three minutes of footage, then a consent video: its site states that every Personal Avatar needs a live, on-camera consent recording. After that, each video asks for a script. Dailies asks you to add an extension to Chrome and to hold your call on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom. No bot joins the call.
A video without any call or camera, from a document. Narration in over 160 languages, dubbing and one-click translation of existing videos. Interactive videos with quizzes and branching, SCORM export, and a screen recorder for narrated walkthroughs. None of this is in Dailies, which works only on the calls it recorded in Chrome, in French and in English, and turns them into shorts.
We found no tool that cuts clips out of a recording on the Synthesia pages we read. Its videos are generated from a prompt, a link or a file and presented by an avatar. Its AI Screen Recorder, a Chrome extension, is described for narrated screen recordings. Dailies records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls in Chrome and cuts up to eight shorts from each.
A webcam and a few minutes. For a Personal Avatar, you read a script in front of your webcam or upload two to three minutes of footage, then record a consent video; Synthesia says the avatar is ready in minutes, keeps your original background and clones your voice. Its site states that every Personal Avatar needs a live, on-camera consent recording. A Studio Avatar is filmed in a partner studio or on a green screen and takes one to seven business days.
Yes. A video can be set to portrait 9:16, a ratio its help centre associates with Reels, TikTok and Stories; you then adjust the elements of the video to fit. Captions are described as closed captions, generated in the language of the narration. We found no animated caption styles on the pages we read.
Choose by what you have more of. If your ideas are written down and you hold few calls, an avatar reads them without a shoot. If you spend your weeks advising clients on calls and never write, your shorts are already in those calls: Dailies records them and cuts them. The two can be used side by side.
No. Dailies makes no training module, takes no script or document, and has no avatar. It makes shorts from the calls you hold in Chrome. For courses, onboarding and internal communication made from written material, Synthesia 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 Synthesia 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. Synthesia is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.