Creating a New Character
Learn how to create and customize a new AI character in Convai Playground, including description, avatar, voice, and language settings.
Introduction
The Convai Playground allows you to design AI-powered characters with unique personalities, voices, and visual appearances. This guide will walk you through creating a new character, from initial setup to customization of avatar, voice, and languages.
Step-by-Step Guide
1. Access the Creation Tool
From your Dashboard, click Create a new character in the top-right corner.
A new character creation interface will open.
In the left menu, only Character Description, Avatar, and Language and Speech are active initially. Other sections will unlock after the character is created.
2. Character Description
Character’s Name – Enter the name for your character (you can edit this later).
Core Description – Write a short background covering the character’s story, personality details, and distinctive features.
Alternatively, click the Wand Icon to Generate Character Backstory with AI.
Speaking Style (optional) – Define the way your character speaks, including tone and mannerisms. Also, feel free to suggest some Sample Dialogues here for your AI character.
Visibility Settings – Choose who can interact with your character:
Public – Available to anyone on
x.convai.com.Unlisted (default) – Only accessible via a direct link.
Private – Restricted to you and invited users.
3. Avatar Customization
Click the Avatar tab in the left menu.
Select Configure Avatar to customize your character’s visual appearance.
Follow the steps in the Avatar Studio Documentation to learn how to adjust facial features, clothing, and other design elements.
Click Save Changes when done.
4. Voice and Language Settings
Click the Voice And Languages tab.
In Language, select one or more languages your character can speak.
In Voice, choose from the filtered voice options for your selected languages
5. Finalizing Character Creation
Once all desired settings are configured, click Create Character at the top right.
If you skip customization, a random avatar and voice will be assigned automatically.
If you don't choose any language, English will be selected by default.
You can update any attribute later, so there’s no need to finalize all decisions immediately.
After Creation
When the character is created, all the sections in the left menu become available for deeper customization:
Character Description (with Speaking Style and Personality Traits)
Avatar
Language and Speech
Knowledge Bank
Core AI Settings
Guardrails
State of Mind
Embodied Actions (Coming Soon to the new Playground. Available on Legacy Playground)
Narrative Design (Coming Soon to the new Playground. Available on Legacy Playground)
External API (Coming Soon to the new Playground. Available on Legacy Playground)
Publish
Memory
Mindview
Each of these features allows you to enhance and refine your character for more natural, intelligent, and engaging interactions. These are covered in separate documentation.
Conclusion
The character creation process in Convai Playground is designed for flexibility — you can launch a character in minutes or spend time refining every detail. Whether you start with default settings or fully customize the avatar, voice, and description.
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