Immersive AI Roleplay with Avatars

A teacher training program for new educators in their first two years on the job. The instructional coaching team was burning out doing 1:1 roleplay sessions every cohort. They wanted a self-serve practice tool that handled the same scenarios coaches were running in 1:1s — parent conferences, classroom redirection, peer disagreement — without requiring a live coach in the loop.

The brief was a self-serve practice tool for the program's new-teacher cohort. It had to handle the scenarios coaches were running in 1:1s — parent conferences, redirection conversations, peer disagreement — without requiring a live coach in the loop.

A Roleplay Coach avatar introduces the persona and the goal. A second avatar plays the partner. From there, learners speak with their own voice, and the avatar speaks back with on-the-fly lip-sync and shifting facial expressions. The AI evaluates each spoken turn on tone, pacing, and word choice, and surfaces a personalized debrief with a one-click retry.

The avatar switches languages mid-conversation when the scenario calls for it. The voice rubric was co-authored with the coaching team so the AI scores what the coaches actually score. Coaches now use 1:1 time to review transcripts the learner has already practiced, not to act out scenarios from scratch.