Overview
- Access starts with creators 18 and older outside Europe, and it requires ownership of an existing YouTube channel.
- Users build an avatar by recording a live selfie and reading short voice prompts in the YouTube app or YouTube Create under the Create button’s Gemini spark.
- Each generated segment can run up to eight seconds, and creators can chain clips or place the avatar into eligible Shorts in their feed.
- YouTube says only the owner can use their avatar, it can be deleted at any time, and it auto-deletes after three years of no use while videos already posted stay up until removed.
- All avatar clips carry visible AI labels plus SynthID and C2PA provenance marks, and the feature extends YouTube’s Veo-based tools with voice as the new capability.