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How to do a voiceover on a video.

Hear four voices on one clip.

  1. 1Record or generate the voice.
  2. 2Split it at the pauses and slide each line under the picture.
  3. 3Turn the clip down 12 dB and export.

Free steps for TikTok, iMovie and Clipchamp

  1. Day-old rice in a smoking-hot wok.
  2. Let the oil catch.
  3. Keep it moving so nothing burns.
  4. Then straight into the bowl.

Plans from $19 a month. Each voice here cost about 4 cents on that plan.

Studio runs in your browser on a computer. Free steps for TikTok, iMovie and Clipchamp

Recording your own voice?Do it free in an app you have.

TikTok

In the app, before you post. From TikTok Help

  1. 1Record or upload your video and go to the editing screen.
  2. 2Tap Voice on the side panel, then Record.
  3. 3Tap the record button and talk over the video. Tap Done.
  4. 4Pick a voice effect if you want one, then tap Save.

iPhone, with iMovie

Free from Apple. From Apple's iMovie guide

  1. 1Open your movie project and scroll until the playhead sits where the voice should start.
  2. 2Tap the Add Media button, then Voiceover.
  3. 3Tap Record. Recording starts after a 3-second countdown. Tap Stop.
  4. 4Tap Review to listen, Retake to try again, or Accept to keep it.

Mac, with iMovie

Free from Apple. From Apple's iMovie guide

  1. 1Put the playhead where the voice should start, then click the Record Voiceover button below the viewer.
  2. 2To hear only yourself, open Voiceover Options and select Mute Project.
  3. 3Click Record. Click it again, or press the Space bar, to stop.
  4. 4Click Done. The voice sits on the timeline as its own clip.

Windows, with Clipchamp

Built into Windows 11. The free plan includes the recorder. From Microsoft's Clipchamp help

  1. 1Open the Record & create tab and click Audio. Allow the microphone.
  2. 2Click the red microphone button to start, then the stop button.
  3. 3Play it back, or click Retake recording to try again.
  4. 4Click Save and edit. The voice lands on the timeline.

These apps record your own voice. For a generated voice, or to time and mix the lines as shown below, use Studio on a computer.

A man sits on the floor of a walk-in closet between hanging coats, reading a printed script into a phone held close to his mouth.

Your voice or a generated one.Three ways to get the words.

1Record your own

Use your phone's voice memo app or any recorder, then upload the file to your Studio project. Your own voice suits tutorials, vlogs and anything where people know you.

  • Record in a small room full of soft things. A closet of coats beats an empty kitchen.
  • Hold the phone a hand's width from your mouth, a little to the side.
  • Read one line, pause for a breath, read the next. The pauses are where you split it later.

2Generate one from a script

Type the script in Studio's Audio panel under Voiceover, pick a voice, and generate. Every take on this page was made that way. Tags such as [pause] shape the delivery.

  • Change one word and generate again. No rerecording.
  • The voices on this page read scripts of up to 10,000 characters, in 85 languages.
  • Make a voice from your own recording of 10 seconds or more, and use it like any other.

3Re-voice your own take

Record the lines yourself with the timing you want, then use Voice change in the Audio tool to hear them in another voice. Your pacing, pauses and emphasis carry over.

  • Record right in the browser, or upload a take of up to 5 minutes.
  • Remove noise is on by default.

How to add a voiceover to a video.Five steps in Studio.

Studio runs in the browser on a computer. The voice, the clip, the music and the captions sit on one timeline.

  1. 1

    Add your video

    Start a project and upload the clip. Select it and press Add to timeline.

    Upload, Add to timeline

  2. 2

    Get the voice

    Upload your recording, or write the script under Audio, Voiceover and pick a voice. Finished takes land in the project's media.

    Audio › Voiceover

  3. 3

    Line it up with the picture

    Drag the voice onto the timeline. Put the playhead in each pause, press S to split, and slide every line under the moment it describes.

    Split clip at playhead (S)

  4. 4

    Set the levels

    Select the video and turn its Volume down so the voice sits on top. Add music under both from the Music tab or your own file.

    Volume, Fade in, Fade out

  5. 5

    Caption it and export

    Auto captions writes the spoken words on screen, timed to the voice. Export an MP4 with no watermark.

    Captions › Auto captions, Export video

Time it to the picture.Split at the pauses. Slide each line.

Read with a breath between lines, then cut the take in each gap and move every line under the moment it talks about. Play both and listen to the end.

Press a row to hear it over the clip.

After the clip
  1. 1Day-old rice in a smoking-hot wok.
  2. 2Let the oil catch.
  3. 3Keep it moving so nothing burns.
  4. 4Then straight into the bowl.

Past the end of the clip, so it is never heard.

Mix it over the sound.The voice on top, the rest under it.

Keep the clip's own sound, just lower. Put music under both. These are the Volume settings on each item in Studio.

Voice+6 dB
Kitchen−12 dB
MusicOff

Music prompt: “A relaxed lo-fi kitchen groove for a cooking video: brushed drums, warm upright bass, muted electric guitar chords, 88 BPM, no vocals, steady from the first beat.”

Simple pricing that scales with you.

Pick the plan for how much you post. Every model on every plan. Unused credits roll over. Cancel anytime.

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$19/month

Billed monthly

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500 credits every month

  • Up to 50 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
  • Up to 50 AI videos
  • Up to 1.5 hours of AI voiceover
  • Roll over up to 1,000 credits

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Most popular
$49/month

Billed monthly

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1,300 credits every month

  • Up to 130 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
  • Up to 130 AI videos
  • Up to 4 hours of AI voiceover
  • Roll over up to 2,600 credits

Studio

$99/month

Billed monthly

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2,700 credits every month

  • Up to 270 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
  • Up to 270 AI videos
  • Up to 9 hours of AI voiceover
  • Roll over up to 5,400 credits

Scale

$199/month

Billed monthly

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5,500 credits every month

  • Up to 550 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
  • Up to 550 AI videos
  • Up to 18 hours of AI voiceover
  • Roll over up to 11,000 credits
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