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Create Your AI Avatar Videos in 2026: Turn Yourself Into an AI Avatar & Post Daily Without Recording

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:10

    • 2.

      Scripting

      5:55

    • 3.

      Creating AI Avatar

      14:08

    • 4.

      Voices

      6:22

    • 5.

      Voices Part 2

      4:25

    • 6.

      AI Video Editing

      6:57

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Tired of setting up your camera, lights, and mic every time you want to record content?
Wish you could post consistently on Instagram or TikTok without actually being on camera?

In this beginner-friendly Skillshare class, you’ll learn how to create your own AI video avatar that talks, looks, and sounds just like you — perfect for creating short-form video content without the hassle of filming yourself.

You’ll use powerful (yet beginner-friendly) tools like:

  • HeyGen to generate your AI video avatar

  • ElevenLabs for ultra-realistic voiceovers

  • Captions AI to edit, subtitle, and stylize your content for Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts

By the end of this class, you’ll have your first AI-powered video ready to post — and a repeatable workflow to create endless content without recording every time.

💡 What You’ll Learn:

  • How to build your AI avatar using HeyGen

  • How to clone your voice or use realistic AI voices with ElevenLabs

  • How to use Captions AI for editing and subtitles

  • How to batch and automate your content creation process

  • Best practices for posting short-form videos on social media platforms

👥 Who This Class Is For:

  • Content creators

  • Instagram or TikTok influencers

  • Coaches, freelancers, and solopreneurs

  • Anyone who wants to save time and still show up online consistently

No technical background needed. Just follow along step-by-step and launch your own AI video system — ready to post in under an hour.

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1. Introduction: Be honest, I have always wanted to create videos online. But every time I had finally set up lights camera and mic, I was already exhausted. If you have ever felt that making content is way more draining than it should be, I get it. Hi, I'm Nikhil, a guy obsessed with saving time using AI tool. In this goat, you will learn how to create your own AI digital twin, your own AI avatar that sounds and looks exactly like you. You can generate content without any studio, without script memorization and without any burnout. You will learn how to build your talking avatar using Hagen, generate natural sounding voice clone of yours using 11 labs, and whatever video you have created, edit them using AI with the help of captions AI. And by the end, you will have a content system in place which can generate videos for Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok without hitting that record button ever again. Course is made for coaches, creators, entrepreneurs, marketers or literally anyone who wants to stay consistent on social media without being on camera. If you are ready to scale your content game and save time, I would love to help you get there. Let's build your AI avatar and I'll see you in the class. 2. Scripting: To the first chapter where we will talk about scripting. The three basic steps to upload any video on Instagram is scripting. Second is recording, third one is editing, and fourth is posting. We are going to replace a lot of things with the help of AI. First one being scripting, let's see how we do it. The very first thing that we are going to do is to generate the script because that's what we will be feeding to our AI avatar. And to do that, I would recommend you that you take inspiration from one of the creators who are already doing well in your domain. Because if you try out new things, you may take a lot of time. Go ahead, find a creator doing really well in your niche and just copy their content in terms of, um, don't just copy, take inspiration. For example, I will take this video here. And you can search for YouTube transcript generator. The idea is to get the text file, which we can upload to CharBT. The whole idea behind all this is to train your AI, whether it is CarPT or Hazen or captions or 11 laps. The more you train your AI, the better to become. Otherwise, you are just going to get some generic answers. Again, select anyone over here and the link. Here it is. Let me figure out if there is any download button. No, I'm just going to paste it here, Script one, then script two for the sake of this video, I will just go ahead. In the world is not being on a bad no, for example, I'm just going to imagine that we are going to start a mindfulness or more like a motivational video channel or Instagram page. So this guy is doing really well in his particular niche. If you look at his subscribers, it is 38 38 K, um, what I would suggest is you also select someone under 100 so that, um, if you directly go for a person with having millions of followers, although this guy has millions of followers on Instagram. But here on YouTube, what would happen is usually people with millions of followers have a momentum that their own followers go ahead and watch the videos. But someone with under 50 K or hundred K would not have that great momentum and it's usually the algorithm, what is pushing their videos. I have selected, I have downloaded the second script. I'm adding it here. Cool. Idally I would create a project. If you have CharPtP you can go ahead and create a project and add all the TXT files onto it. But just for the sake of this video, I'm doing it here on a separate chat because a lot of students won't have a plus plan. Even if you are on the free plan, you can just paste it like this and generate a similar script above for 30 seconds Instagram re give the Nie niche motivational video about love. Let's see how does it go? So now we have a script here and I can just ask JBD give me five more scripts, more crisper and EV or maybe with the crawl stopping. Because, in all the instagram res or videos or shots, hook is very important. Hook is basically what makes people to decide whether I want to watch this whole video or not. It's usually in the first 3 seconds. Yeah, we have five scripts now. Similarly, you can create, I think, 30 scripts, which would be good for all over a month. 3. Creating AI Avatar: And welcome to the second video where we are going to create our first EI avatar. The prerequisite here is that you should already have a recorded video with a stable camera well lit, and it should be at least 2 minutes long. Let's start. Once you log in, this is the home page that you are going to see this is the account that I'm already using and it's a paid account. So I have few of the unlimited videos. There are few benefits out of it. But uh whatever I do here, you can also do it on your own. Even in the free account. They have a capping of just that it will have some watermarks and you can I think create one or two good videos out of it. It's a good thing to try it out and see if you like it, you can go ahead with the paid plan. Uh, no push, but this is something you can learn. You are learning here. And if you are working in a marketing team, you can convince your company to buy it for you. So first thing I'm going to do is go to Avatars, and there are already few avatars that are created. This is mine. So all I did till now was these are the couple of photos that were uploaded from my Instagram over here till here. Now these are AI generated. You can see it looks exactly like me. I mean, this one looks very real, um, all of them are AI generated. But today, um, in your case, this will be empty. Today we are going to create a video avatar. I'm going to select Starfrom with the video. Why you create an inset or lifestyle avatar Mg and get started. Next, and I'm going to upload the video over here. I know I look very bad in this, but for the sake of this video, let's go ahead with this. Let me move background noise. It's good. AI background reproval. Um, For now, it's good. And let's go ahead with the next this is for Nikil which is me next, please record a quick. One thing that we have to do here is verify you cannot use anyone's random video. It has to be you. I have to read this aloud and yeah, I'm going to do this allow. This is what we have to read. I ethan ura hereby allow agent to use the footage of me to build a Hagan avatar for use on the Hagan platform for safety purposes. This is the pass code, JOS. Now it's going to validate in some ten to 20 seconds. Cool. Let's validated. So this is being uploaded. This is, it is uploaded and guys, they do few of the quality checks. There are two, um, cautionary errors. The person is moving their hands and head around too much. Ideally, HN wants that you don't move your hands too much, you should do it, but not too often. In this video, obviously, I think I use my hand gestures a lot, um that can be seen here. And brief pauses between sentences. I don't pause that is for sure that I know. Speaker rarely pauses between sentences often sounding lust. These are the two cautionary errors, but we can still go ahead and submit. But while you do this, you make sure that you have a it environment, facial movements are there, camera stable because ideally, whatever you upload here should be of the best quality because this is what you are going to replicate in your other videos. I'm going to click Submit. Now you can see I can just add a script over here. Let's go ahead with this one. This is our hook and over here, we can just add few of the remaining lines, let me just make it smaller. Anyways. This is the avatar that we are going to use. Then I can also resize it accordingly. I was not liking I think this is the perfect frame over here and here you can select the sound. In the next video or the next chapter, I'm going to show you how to connect your 11 laps to this. Nowadays, Hagen is also really good in terms of creating your audio replica, but 11 laps is the best. But again, 11 labs, you will have to go with the paid plan of $11 or 11 euros I guess but if you are satisfied with this audio over here, once the voice cloning is done, you don't have to go, you can skip the next chapter and move next to next one. Currently, they are crooning the voice and this may take around three to 5 minutes. Meanwhile, let's go back. For Nickle let's upload one more video. Now I'm going to upload one more video. The idea is to train the model, we can upload as many as videos possible and even I would recommend you that you also do the same, at least upload your two or three videos. Even one works, but the more context or training your model has, the better videos or the output will be. I'm going to upload one more video. This time horizontally, last time, you can see I did a vertical upload, but this time I'm going to do to create an instant or lifestyle horizontal one so that I can use it in the future in case I want to create a long videos on YouTube. Now I have uploaded both the videos over here. This one is vertical, this one is horizontal and the voice cloning is done as well. If I go ahead and create, I have to just click on Quick Avatar video or if you are on this page, you can just click one of these and create with AI Studio. This already has my voice. Let me just reframe it. I think this should be good. Let me add the script over here. Let's go ahead with this one. And this I can also hear to my voice over here or if I want to change any of the voices, I can just click these two buttons over here. It has already selected whatever voice was in this video. Even hegen voices are good, but 11 laps is a little bit better. If this works for you, just go ahead with that. If not, can connect with agent and here are a few more voices that you can select, but it sounds a little unnatural, not specific to my voices, especially because I have an Indian accent and if it works for you, it works for you, select any one of these or else you have your own voice clone over here. Let me just try. When I click on this, it will only read out. The video won't be played until analysts I generate. I'm trying to hear my own voice. Remember this, love is not found, love is bent. We think love just magically happens, it doesn't. It grows through choices, staying curious, being patient, learning each other's triggers, apologizing with it's not 100% match, but I would say it's 80% match over my voice. I can maybe increase the speed to 111 and there are a few more settings that I can select. Original accent is fine, and in advanced settings, I think the Hagen currently uses a few of the labs and it auto selects whichever works best in my case. So you can see it also has 11 labs by default. That means Hagen is already using 11 labs by default, even if you don't connect them. Just that in 11 labs paid account, you have more features in terms of clone, 100% clone of your voice, and even here maybe it is working as a free version. In this case, the voice was good. I can just go ahead and generate let me just write nickel test. Resolution it is fine. I PS 25 is good. That's the only option that we have over here. Let's go submit. Video is submitted and it will create the video. So this video took around 5 minutes to generate, and now it is ready. If I click on this, you can see over here. Remember this, love is not found. Love is built. We think love just magically happens, it doesn't grows through choices, staying curious, being patient, learning each other's triggers, apologizing without ego, holding space for flaws. Great relationships aren't lucky. They're created by two people who refuse to stop building. If you want a so you can see, it's very difficult to differentiate between original video and this AI generated video. Although you can make a little bit resemblance to AI videos with the sound. But if you look at the expressions over here, it's very real. Remember this, love is not found. Love is built. We think love just magically happens, it doesn't. It grows through choices. Saying curious, be I mean, if I had a love channel, I would have uploaded this. There's no way a third person can figure out whether it is AI or original video. You can see the background over here. I mean, um, it's very real. Whatever I had uploaded, it is just changing the lips and the hand movements are already properly fed into the system. And similarly, I can create videos for 10 minutes and, um, this is good. I just need to change the voice, which we will look into the next chapter. But if the voice is perfect for you, you can skip the next chapter and move on to the third one which is about editing and I love this. Let's see you in the next chapter. 4. Voices: Let's start with voices and how we can connect Hajian and ElevenLabs. Prerequisite is that you should have a 30 minutes recording and even if you don't have it first, I would recommend you to watch this whole video and then record your voice if you are choosing ElevenLabs. But if you were happy with Haijian recording, you can go ahead with the Hajian and skip this video to end and watch the next video. So in the last video, we successfully created one video using our AI Avatar, and now we are going to focus on the voices here. When you upload a video, the voice will be automatically crone by Hagen. They have different languages or different models who are trained on your specific accent or voices. Now, you can see here, there is an option which says integrate third party voices. Basically, Hagen has its own set of voices, voice models with the help of ElevenLabs and there are many other models. But if you want more professional or more realistic, more closer to your voice, you should go with a third party, um, voice over here, which is ElevenLabs, and, unfortunately, it's in the paid plan where you train in the model here. But it's not really important to go ahead with that if you're just starting out, you have many other pre um I mean, in the library, you already have a couple of voices which you can select from, and Hazen also works quite well in terms of cloning your own voices. Now, just so that you can have more realistic if you are doing this for a brand or a company and they are paying you somewhere around let's say $1,000. There's nothing wrong in trying out this particular $11 plan for the first month. What we do over here is that we generate, we connect ElevenLabs and hegen with the help of APIs. First thing that we have to do is once you login or sign up, you will see this screen, which is a home page. Go ahead to voices, then click on Create or Clone or voice. Now, you will see a couple of options here. This is instant voice clone. This is text based design. Basically, you can say, a man an Indian man with authoritative voice. Basically, you give a text prompt to the model and it will design a completely new voice out of it. This is instant voice clone. I think this and Hajan voices are quite similar. So they instantly try to clone your voice and you just have to put 10 seconds of audio over here. This is the feature that I'm talking about where you pay $11 and, um, this is you can see it's the most realistic digital replica of your voice and it requires 30 minutes of your clean audio. What I would suggest is that you sit in a quieter room if you have a mic use that if not, you can just keep your iPhone or any phone very close, um, close to your mouth and speak for 30 minutes. Or you can go ahead on any website or you can read a book. I mean, I know it's difficult to keep speaking for 30 minutes, random things about anything. Read a book or go to a blog, read it for 30 minutes, keep your phone over, I mean, near to your mouth where it is clear. Don't keep it too close because um then the recording will have errors as well. I mean, air will be also recorded. Keep it somewhere on the side over here and then you can record it. So yeah, once you have uploaded 30 minutes, it will take around 5 minutes to generate that voice, and then you have to go to your profile, sorry, not profile. I just move this over here. Go to developers because now we are going to generate APIKey. You will see a button here which says, create an APIKey and then just click on Create keep. And once you create it, usually you can go to give all the access to it. Um, just give full access because we want it to be as realistic as possible. Yeah. Once you create the key, this is your API key which is generated and go to Hagan voices and now click on Integrate third party voice They have two provider as of snob we have 11 Axia. You can just paste it or API key, then we just copy. Confirm. So currently, my account is in the free plant, but once you take the $11, you will see the voice that you have generated, just click on it, and there are only two steps to it. You will select your voice and click on Import button, and then you will be able to see it over here. You can see high quality, um and then I have a level laps over here. So um, that's how it works. It's not really mandatory. If it works for you, I if these voices work for you, go ahead with that. 5. Voices Part 2: This video is continuation of the previous part voices where you integrated 11 laps with Hagen with the help of API. Now what comes next is in this video. Once your voice is integrated from 11 laps over here, you can go back to Avatars and maybe select one of the videos. Then add your script over here. Just remove this otherwise this will also come into the video. This section particularly should have only things that you want in the video. You cannot have hooks or any other comments which are generated by Chad ZPT. Now this is in my previous video I shared. This is where you select your voices from. Right? And these are my voices section. So I think your third party integration will come over here and if not, I mean, if you want to use one of these, you can go ahead and use this and you can also adjust the speed. I would say whenever you do any change here, just go ahead and click on this button and you can hear your um new selected setting, whatever you have selected over here. And you can also play around a little bit by changing the models over here. Sometimes star fish is really great, as is good. V three should be the perfect one over here and uh once you select one of these, you also get few more options, which is stability. I mean, the more stable it is, I think, less, it will be more realistic as your voice, if not, there are many options and settings that you can change over here. If you want, you can um add a subtitle right here, which will be the subtitle and change it to maybe something that people can read. Then, um, add elements like this died red flag because this starts with red flag. Sorry. Whenever this thing comes, the new animation will also come during this particular centers whenever this is generated. There are many elements that you can use from but I usually don't select any of these reason being so that I have more freedom to edit later if I know editing. If you also know editing, I would suggest go ahead without any of the additional elements over here. But if you just want to keep it very simple, I would still suggest go ahead with subtitle at least or captions, whatever you're comfortable with. For example, you must have seen some of these kind of videos on Instagram, this will be automatically added into your video if you want to add effects later on, you can do that, uh with some other tool maybe I movie or, um, there are many editing tools can AI Adobe Express and all those things. But in the next video, I'm going to show you how you can do with the help of AI so that if you have absolutely zero idea about editing, you can still do it with AI. 6. AI Video Editing: Hello, and welcome to the last video of this course. This is where we will learn about editing our video that we created using Hagen. We will edit it using AI. If you already know video editing, I would suggest you try that as well, but this is something which saves a lot of time of yours and AI takes care of the whole editing. Let's get started. Now captions.ai over here is the perfect tool for your editing, if you have absolutely zero idea about it. So um, this was recently acquired by Mirage, but you can still use Captions. Once you go to capsurs.ai, you will see a button over here which says continue to Captions, just take on that. It will ask you to login and, you can go to AI Edit, upload one of your videos. Then it has multiple styles that you can choose from. If you select any of these, it will take five to 10 seconds to show how your video would look. I really like Ignite and impact to This is something that they recently launched. I've not tried it yet, but this is something I really write. And you can see that the color over here is blue and um, this also can have um, this also matches with my background. I'm going to select this color and go ahead on and create project. This I have done already. Let me open it. Once your project would be completed, you will get an option to click on it and an editor platform will open up. So you can see you have different kind of elements, the sound effect, and even the caption over here, one thing I have done additionally is to add music because without music, usually, um, in Instagram or YouTube Shorts of videos, you can have upbeat music which keeps people attentive enough to watch videos longer. If I'll just delete this just so that I can show it to you guys how I do it. Let me just move it over here, select music. This is a Sk bar wherever you want to start something. I want my music to start from the Bing ni. I'll go to music library, then I can hear one of these and select So I can select anything and click on Insert, reduce because it's a background music, not the main music. Now, just go ahead and play. I'm not actively looking. I just came because my friend referred me. I said this. To the CEO during my interview. Let me explain why this career suicide statement got me the job offer. I had just quit. You can change the music. I would say listen to all of them and select the best one if you want to add or add or remove something, you can just click on. Basically, for example, if I want a woosh sound here, I can just click on sounds Library, maybe a bounce. A pop sound over here. Now this will be added into my video. I said this. Two and this may not be perfect while you are editing it. But once you export it, it still takes 5 minutes to have a perfect rendering and everything. You sound sound would be much better, your video would be much better in terms of quality. If you are seeing any lag or anything, that will be taken care of. But this is a paid tool again. There are many tools out there which you can do where you can edit things manually or you can just directly whatever you have created on if your videos I think less than 30 seconds which you have created on Hagen, it's good without editing as well if you have a great hope date content. But if editing is required and you have zero idea about editing, you can use this tools caption.ai and it is I think 24 $25 a month, right? So, um, which is, I think, fair enough. Um, I know there are two tools that you would be using, which is capsules and Agent and it can cost you up to $50 a month, but it's an investment that you can make and um, you can have I mean, you can generate maybe let's say 60 or 100 videos. I mean, you can hustle for a month and generate as many videos as possible and then maybe pause your subscription and go ahead with all the videos that you have created over the time. Because you can post one video every day and if you have 100 videos in your library, just keep posting one every day and you have content ready for hundred days, uh, not mandatory if you know editing, I think, but I think Hagen is something that you should definitely go for. Now, there's a hack, you can use this tool on your phone as well. There's a app of Captions, but it will be expensive on the phone. What I would suggest is that you log into in your laptop or a PC one, then buy it from here because the price is usually cheaper on the desktop models. But once you are a paid member, it is also applicable on your phone. If you're going to buy it, buy it from your desktop or laptop.