Audio and voiceover

Voice, captions and AI

• Create a voiceover in Voiceover StudioSwitch to the Voiceover workspace, create a project, paste your script and choose a voice. The finished narration lands on your timeline.
• Make a voice track from your captionsChoose Sequence › Captions › Voice from Captions…, pick a voice and a track, and every caption is spoken at its own place on the timeline.
• Dub a video into another languageTranslate the captions, then choose Dub from Captions. A voice in the new language is fitted phrase by phrase to the original timing.
• Dub each speaker in their own voiceIn Dub from Captions, press Detect Speakers, name each person, then Clone their voice. Every phrase is dubbed in the voice of the person who says it.
• Fix one dubbed phrase with Fix This PhraseRight-click a piece of the dubbed voice and choose Fix This Phrase…. Change the words, the voice or the stresses, press Speak, listen, then Apply.
• Finish a voiceover when the final voice check failsIf Make the final voiceover stops with a failed check, press Listen. If it sounds right, press Save Anyway; Show in Finder opens the folder with the file.
• Choose the voice engine: Chatterbox or Qwen3-TTSChatterbox is built in. To try Qwen3-TTS, install it from Settings › AI components, then choose it under Voice engine on the Voice step.
• Clean up narration and mix to a loudness targetRepair the voice in Essential Sound, remove silences, fit the music, then normalize to −14, −16 or −23 LUFS.
• Set pauses, phrasing and pace in a voiceoverOn the Finish step, Where the voice stops, Pauses at your own marks and Pace on long parts decide how the narration breathes. Save script .txt is on Preview & adjust.
• Set Russian stresses from your scriptWhen you dub into Russian, press Load Stressed Script… in Dub from Captions and choose a .txt with stress marks. Names and words with two readings are then pronounced the way you wrote them.
• Correct a stress or a pronunciation once, for every scriptA stress or spelling you correct in the Script step or in Preview & adjust is kept for every later script. Words with two saved stresses get a ✓ and ✗ in the word menu.
• Share pronunciation with another studioVoiceover Studio › Pronunciation › Share with Another Studio writes your rules, remembered words and hand-set stresses to a file another VLPremiere Pro can read, and reads one back.
• Place one voiceover part at the playheadIn Preview & adjust, a part's ⋯ menu has Place at Playhead: it puts that part's current take on a free audio track at the playhead, at the finished voiceover's level.
• Find the finished voiceover, and where voiceovers are savedThe Finish step starts with a Finished voiceover card: the file, its folder, Play and Show in Finder. Voiceovers go into a voiceover folder beside the script or the project.
• Set a default voice for a project, per languageClick the ☆ beside a Voice menu, or use Default voices on the Voice step, and Redo This Part and the dub windows start with that voice for the language spoken.
• When Voiceover Studio finds a problem, or the final voiceover failsVoiceover Studio checks itself when it opens. A red card offers Repair and Check Again; if Generate Final Voiceover stops, Finish keeps a card with Try Again, and every part is kept.
• A dub's voice menus: your own voices and the clonesThe voice menus in Dub from Captions, its speakers and Redo This Part group voices by where they came from: My voices first, then the clones.
• Russian dubs are stressed automatically (Show Stresses Used)When you dub into Russian, every phrase is stressed automatically before the voice says it. Show Stresses Used opens the stresses so you can correct a word.
• Even out a voice with Voice Leveler, and echo the last word with Echo ThrowVoice Leveler rides a voice to an even level and leaves pauses alone. Echo Throw puts an echo only on the last word of each phrase. A Pro feature.
• New voice presets, and a whoosh, riser or impact at an editFour new voice presets: Radio Speaker, Megaphone, Underwater and Inner Voice. And a whoosh, riser or impact the app makes for you at the nearest edit. A Pro feature.
• Redo This Part: the captions follow the new takeAfter you redo one part of a voiceover, its captions are made again from the text you typed and timed to the new take. Neighbouring captions stay as they were.
• Favorite voices, voice folders and Manage VoicesStar the voices you use most, sort them into folders, and tidy the whole list in Manage Voices. Favorites come first in every dub voice menu.
• Merge two speakers in a dub, and keep names after Detect AgainWhen Detect splits one person into two speakers, merge them with one click. Detect Again keeps the names and voices you gave.