Voiceover Generator

Add professional voiceovers to videos using Descript’s voiceover generator. Turn text into natural-sounding, studio-quality narration with Overdub. Choose a stock voice, create an AI voiceover based on your own voice, or record your own narration enhanced with Studio Sound.

How to generate AI voiceovers from text with Descript

Step 1

Input your voiceover script

Create a project in Descript and enter Write mode (press the W key) to start writing your voiceover script, or simply paste it in. You can also start a new recording to record and transcribe yourself doing the voiceover.

Step 2

Choose a voiceover style

Click on the speaker label above your script and choose the AI voiceover that matches your vision. You can also clone your own voice. Once you’ve chosen an AI voice, you can select a specific style or tone. It may take a few seconds to regenerate the voiceover audio.

Step 3

Create your voiceover video

Syncing your voiceover with the video is as easy as adding a ‘/’ to your script wherever you want to create a new scene. When your voiceover video is ready, go to Publish > Export to download your voiceover video or audio.

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Voiceover Generator

Add professional voiceovers to videos using Descript’s voiceover generator. Turn text into natural-sounding, studio-quality narration with Overdub. Choose a stock voice, create an AI voiceover based on your own voice, or record your own narration enhanced with Studio Sound.

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How to generate AI voiceovers from text with Descript
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Step 1
Input your voiceover script

Create a project in Descript and enter Write mode (press the W key) to start writing your voiceover script, or simply paste it in. You can also start a new recording to record and transcribe yourself doing the voiceover.

Step 2
Choose a voiceover style

Click on the speaker label above your script and choose the AI voiceover that matches your vision. You can also clone your own voice. Once you’ve chosen an AI voice, you can select a specific style or tone. It may take a few seconds to regenerate the voiceover audio.

Step 3
Create your voiceover video

Syncing your voiceover with the video is as easy as adding a ‘/’ to your script wherever you want to create a new scene. When your voiceover video is ready, go to Publish > Export to download your voiceover video or audio.

The fastest way to create professional voiceover videos
Your own cast of voice actors (no hiring required)

Descript’s selection of stock voices include male and female AI voices trained on a wide spectrum of voice data. Don sounds like a gritty radio host, while Carla sounds like a professional spokesperson. Each AI voice includes several styles and tones, from formal to lyrical, that you can swap in and out in a couple of clicks.

Clone your voice in minutes

Clone your voice to create an AI narrator that sounds just like you with as little as 10 minutes of recorded audio. Add more recordings over time to make your AI voice even more realistic. Record yourself in different settings or with different tones to create a versatile army of voice clones.

Text-to-speech baked into a powerful video editor

Descript’s unique text-based video editor makes editing video and audio as easy as editing a doc. Changes you make to the auto-generated transcript are instantly reflected in your underlying video and audio tracks — and you can add single words or entire paragraphs to add to your voiceover just by typing.

Questions? We have answers
What is an AI voiceover?

AI voiceovers are generated by synthetic voices that mimic human speech based on large amounts of voice training data. The more voice data you give them, the more natural they sound. AI voiceovers can be used to create narrated videos and articles, audiobooks, podcast intros, video tutorials, and other audio or video content where you might otherwise have to hire a professional voice actor.

How do you create realistic AI voiceovers?

You can create realistic, human-sounding AI voiceovers by training the AI on at least 10 minutes of recorded speech (though we recommend 30 minutes or more for best results). With Descript’s Overdub and voice cloning features, you can easily create your own AI voiceover from scratch and start using it to “speak” your script for you.

Can I replace existing voice audio with an AI voice using Descript?

Yes, Descript makes it easy to take existing voices and replace them with an enhanced version of the same voice or a different AI voice entirely at any point in your auto-generated transcript.

How does speech-to-text conversion work?

Speech-to-text conversion works by using AI and large quantities of diverse training data to recognize the acoustic qualities of specific words, despite the different speech patterns and accents people have, to generate it as text.

How do you add voiceovers to TikTok videos?

You can add a voiceover effect to TikTok by using the text-to-speech feature. Another option is to use Descript to access a broader range of realistic AI voiceovers with the ability to use a cloned AI voice based on your own.

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  • Social clips
    Create voiceover videos for TikTok, add narration to YouTube videos, along with animated captions, audio and visual effects, and more.
  • Recording
    Quickly record your voice, camera, and screen to bring them into your timeline to edit without missing a beat.
  • Subtitles and captions
    Generate auto-synced captions to go with your voiceovers to make it easy for viewers to follow along.
  • Publishing
    Export voiceovers as audio or video directly to podcast and video platforms. Or publish them as Descript pages complete with an embedded media player and searchable transcript.