Customize avatars

Learn how to edit the appearance, language and narration of an avatar in an assessment.

Avatars are a core part of the speaking test's user experience. The avatars serve as virtual test conductors and provide instructions at every step of the test to the candidate. During the test creation process, the authors are provided a range of avatars to select from and also authors can select the avatar's language as shown below:

While the default avatars provided during test creation have a general purpose narration script that can be applied to any speaking test, Premium plan customers have the option to further customize the narration script.

Customizing the narration script can be used for the following purposes:

1. Recite question instructions - The avatar can be made to speak the question to the user and provide any additional information that the test creator may deem helpful in understanding questions.

2. Provide branding information - The avatar can be made to recite the branding information of the school or company which is organizing the speaking test.

Customizing the avatar is a three step process:

1. Edit avatar - This is the first step, wherein an avatar's look and feel, language and narration is edited.
2. Generate avatar - In this step, the edits to the avatar are submitted to a background job for generating a new avatar video. The background job generally finishes in a few minutes.
3. Apply avatar - In this step, the newly generated video is previewed and applied to the assessment.

In the following sections, we will review these in detail.