Talk to an Interactive Avatar in Articulate Storyline

To create something quite simple like this was a lot simpler than it looks.

I used the GPT that HeyGen defaulted to and within that made a few additions, all within the HeyGen UI - no coding skills required apart from creating the html page to embed in Storyline's web object.

In HeyGen there are some good example knowledge bases that they use for their own examples. These are a good starting point to help you understand the structure of how to add a persona to your avatar. There is also space to add URLs that can be used for it to pull specific knowledge from.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the API version is far more customisable and probably more useful from a commercial perspective, but for the purposes of my experiment I found the standard HeyGen embed to be all I needed.