Google Vids makes AI avatars free for US users, turning presentations into narrated videos

Google now lets you try its custom AI avatars without signing up for a paid plan

Google plans to expand the feature beyond the US in the coming months. We've all sat through endless dry presentations where the key takeaways simply don't stick. Making those bullet points into a fun video used to take a quiet room, ring lights, and hours of awkward retakes. Google Vids wants to remove that barrier. Google announced in a blog post that Google Vids is opening up its AI avatars and video generation tools to all Google account holders in the US, at no cost whatsoever. This video editor combines traditional timeline tools with its generative AI muscle. This means you get a digital presenter to do the heavy lifting rather than rushing to get yourself recorded. You can convert any existing Google Slides deck with a click, and Vids will automatically storyboard the content, then draft a script and insert a customizable AI spokesperson to narrate it. Under the hood, these new features are powered by Google's latest video generation model, Veo 3.1, and Lyria 3 for custom music scoring. Neither are you just slapping a static face on a screen. You can tell these avatars to play with uploaded props and place them against your own backdrops, making them great for tutorials, travel vlogs or client pitches. All avatar content is also embedded with a SynthID watermark to confirm it was AI-generated, to keep things transparent. Anyone can jump in right now, but free accounts are limited to 10 Veo video generations per month. The free AI avatars are now available for US users, with other regions to get them in the coming months. If you need more headroom, you'll need to step up to a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription to unlock up to 1,000 generations a month.

AI avatars in Google Vids are now available for free users

Google Vids announced today that it's making AI avatars available to free accounts, with the Workspace video creation tool now used by 7 million users every month. AI avatars in Google Vids act as digital presenters that can be "re-scripted whenever your message or content needs an update." The Google Slides integration lets you easily convert presentations into video. Google Vids can automatically create a storyboard and script for the avatar. You're able to choose from a gallery of "high-quality" avatars or generate custom ones using Nano Banana 2. All free personal users now get 10 video generations per month, "which can be split between avatars and Veo video generation." It is coming first to the US with a global expansion this summer. Meanwhile, Google is adding the ability to steer the emotion of avatars and "fine-tune their delivery of your message to perfectly match your intent." Coming soon, this will also be available for AI voiceovers on both free and paid accounts. Paid users (including AI Pro and Ultra) will soon get the ability to generate AI voiceovers to narrate Slides in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Additionally, custom avatars can be directed to walk, talk, and interact with objects. Items or products can be added as ingredients and specifying a prompt. The final announcement today allows Veo generation "without duration limits," which was previously at 8 seconds.

Stop making boring slides because Google Vids just made AI avatars free for everyone

Google Vids makes AI avatars free, adds longer video generation along with multilingual voiceovers If you've wanted to turn presentations into videos without recording yourself, Google has some good news. Starting today, anyone with a personal Google account in the US can use AI avatars in Vids for free, with the rollout expanding to more regions later this summer. Free users get 10 monthly video generations that can be split between avatar creations and Veo-powered clips. Your presentations just got an AI presenter, for free You can pick a default avatar from Google's curated gallery, or build your own custom one using Nano Banana 2. Either way, scripts and voiceovers now support 24 languages, so the same avatar can pitch your product in English one day and Arabic or Vietnamese the next. Recommended Videos If you have already built decks in Google Slides, Vids will turn that presentation into a storyboard and write a script for an avatar to deliver on screen, so you don't have to repeat the same pitch across time zones. Don't want a face on screen? Paid users on AI Pro, Ultra, and Business or Enterprise tiers can swap in an AI voiceover instead. It now supports eight languages, including Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and French. Paid Veo users also get to break past the old eight-second clip limit with extended Veo 3.1 limits in Vids. So now you can tell a longer story without scenes losing consistency halfway through. What is coming next for your avatars in Google Vids? Later this summer, an Emotion Steering feature will be rolled out to both free and paid users. This will allow you to adjust how an avatar or AI voiceover delivers a message so the tone better matches your intent. Emotion Steering feature builds on Direct Avatars, which already lets you place an avatar into a scene and have it walk, talk, and interact with objects just by typing a prompt. With free avatars, multilingual voiceovers, emotion controls, and longer AI-generated videos, Google Vids lets you create professional content without the time and cost of traditional video production.