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HeyGen Interactive Avatar - Meet Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover's 24/7 digital twin

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⬆️ Click 'Visit' to chat with Ryan Hoover's avatar now! 🥇get a FREE Interactive Avatar (for a limited time only) 🤯 teach it anything via knowledge base 💻 embeddable on your website 📹 AI-generated avatar from 3min of footage

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Joshua Xu
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Hey Product Hunt! I’m Joshua, the CEO of HeyGen. I don’t want to say too much more, but I’m genuinely so excited for this community to try out our new Interactive Avatars. I know our community has been asking for something like this for a long time and I can’t imagine what use cases this new technology will unlock. Thank you for your support!
@joshua_xu Hi, I am very interested and eager to try the new Interactive Avatars. I use Canva and that was my introduction to your company. I have an idea for your product, and the future of your company in the field of AI. It's not a new idea, but it's well thought-out and properly motivated.
Wayne Liang
Maker
Hey Product Hunt community! I’m Wayne, (newly) Chief Innovation Officer of HeyGen, and I’m super pumped to show you some new tech we’ve been working on recently. 🥇 First off — thanks for supporting us. To show our gratitude, everyone who signs up in the next week will receive 1 free interactive avatar! Just sign up today, no code necessary. 🤝 Ok so, Interactive Avatar is the culmination of many new technologies that we’ve added on top of our best-in-class Instant Avatars. With just 3 minutes of footage, you can train your avatar to look and sound just like you! 🧠 Not only does it look and sound like you, it even knows the same things that you know. Train your Interactive Avatar with a specific persona, knowledge, instructions, even a specific goal. That way you can stay confident that your digital twin is living up to your expectations no matter where they are. 👨‍💻 Embed your Interactive Avatar anywhere on the web with just a few clicks. That means you can train it on HeyGen, embed it onto your site, and it will stay awake to help your customers 24/7. 👋🏻 Demo our Interactive Avatars with two people you might recognize: Ryan Hoover, founder of Product Hunt, and Baron Davis, 2x NBA All-Star. Have a conversation with them as if you’re talking to them 1:1, it’s truly magical. Thank you so much for supporting this launch and for trying out the demos! Please tell us how we can improve or for any future use cases you’d want to see, your feedback is truly meaningful for us. Have a great day!
Javaughn Lawrence
@_wangliang_ have I run a leading live shopping platform called drip. Have been really enjoying using heygen's product + would like to use an API for the URL to Ad to generate short videos for our own products. Any sense on when this will be avialable?
Bonnie Cheung
@_wangliang_ What about those of us who have been loyal users of HeyGen? :) How do we get a free interactive avatar?
Wayne Liang
Maker
@rc_bc Hi Bonnie, yes you have a free Interactive Avatar too! Please log on to labs.heygen.com/interactive-avatar to create one and let us know what you think!
Wayne Liang
Maker
@javaughn12 Hi Javughn, thanks for your feedback! We're working on URL to Video too, will be offering it in a better shape plus API ability, please stay tuned!
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
Does @rrhoover endorse this? 😶
Ryan Hoover
@chrismessina haha, yes. I gave them permission. I also realize I'm opening myself up to the trolls. 😅
Alec Lindsay
Maker
Hey Product Hunters! To echo Joshua and Wayne, I’m so excited to share this new innovation with you, I know it’ll blow your mind. HeyGen’s new Interactive Avatars are not only lifelike, they are fully interactive to the point where you can send your digital twin on a specific mission for you. Whether it be on your site helping customers, to qualifying leads instead of a bland typeform, or if it’s just for fun, it’s got tons of amazing use cases that we can’t wait for you to discover. I hope everyone enjoys it and thanks for trying it out!
Andriy Semenets
Congratulations on the launch! This seems to be pretty interesting. What are the options to import the person's knowledge into it? Can I connect my Obsidian MD notes or Notion so it uses specific content from it? Thanks.
Alec Lindsay
Maker
@semanser Hey Andriy - for now, it's only text, but we definitely are considering adding the ability to upload files and add links to inform the knowledge base as well. As with all LLM-prompting, it's a bit of trial and error! Let us know how it goes!
Ramona Ortega
@semanser @alindsay77 Similar question, this seems like a RAG Light model which is very cool but it would be great to have an API to a more expansive knowledge base (hugging face integration maybe). Also is this one level down from the streaming Avator?
Anna Filou
@alindsay77 is there a hard limit to the length of the text one can upload for the avatar’s knowledge?
Gabe Perez
This was fun! the visual element is super realistic and I can see this only getting more polished. Halfway through my demo, the virtual Ryan I was speaking to developed an Australian accent, but was soon corrected. Unless...he really does have an accent o_O
Trevor Lohrbeer
Fascinating talking with the virtual @rrhoover. Since I've been doing a podcast with ChatGPT as a co-host for the past 7 months, I decided to see how it felt interviewing the virtual Ryan. You can see the result here:
Jump to around 3:15 if you want to skip the intro and get straight to the interview. Like someone else mentioned, he gets an Australian accent at points. Also, there's still enough lag sometimes for the experience to feel choppy. It probably works great if you're in San Francisco, but my guess is that more infrastructure work is needed to roll this out worldwide.
Ryan Hoover
@fastfedora1 ha! That's hilarious. I'll forward this Ryan to all future podcast requests. :)
Azies Alfasha
Wow, congratulations on this highly anticipated launch! This is an incredible achievement from the hard work and dedication you and your team put in. I am sure this product/service will be a huge success and get the recognition it deserves. Hopefully this step will bring continued success and continue to inspire many people. Congratulations on this glorious achievement!" 🚀🎉
Wayne Liang
Maker
@azies_alfasha Thanks for your comments! **Create your own interactive avatar today when it's free** :D let us know how you like it!
Kat Von B
Coolest feature yet!
Kevin Huang
This is so freaking cool! So excited about this possibilities this opens up. Would be cool if there's a way we can request avatars to get made of our favorite celebrities 😆
Patrick Moran
I love the potential of these interactive avatars! I want one to attend all my meetings for me! The pace of Heygen's innovation is pretty incredible.
Walter Draup
Dang we live in 2050 now
Mohamad Mirarabshahi
It was truly fascinating. Congratulations on launching this exciting product!
Wayne Liang
Maker
@mohamad_mirarabshahi Thanks for your comment! show us your avatar!
Ahmad
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Catherine Wilder
This is so impressive and really fun. Half way through Ryan definitely got an Aussie twang. He also interrupted a lot lol. Very excited to explore application. ))
Toshit Garg
Goodluck on the launch....
Super impressed with everything HeyGen has done to take the lead in this space in the past 12 months!
Mercy James
Great work on this innovation! I love the idea of teaching avatars via a knowledge base. It’s an excellent way to provide consistent and accurate information
Grechy
Interesting! It works better when chatting with him. Using a microphone feels less natural.
Chandrshekhar Rawan
The concept of a custom, AI-powered avatar is impressive. It would be great to see examples of how different industries are using this for customer interaction.