Voiceover: speech laid over the picture
A voiceover is speech recorded or generated separately and laid over the picture, as distinct from dialogue generated together with it. From 4 source pages, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.
Katalist adds a voiceover on the timeline and syncs it with images or video. Pictory adds an AI voiceover from the storyboard. Topview's AI Audio guide converts an input script into audio in several languages. FlexClip's text-to-speech tool offers a voice library and cloning.
A voiceover can be changed without touching the picture, which makes it the easier kind of speech to fix.
Lip movement is the limit: a voiceover suits narration and off-screen speech better than a close-up of a character talking.
Several of these tools let the voiceover be generated per scene, which keeps timing aligned with the cut.
| Tool | Page | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Katalist | How to Add a Voiceover to Your Katalist Project | Adding a voiceover and syncing it on the timeline |
| Pictory | How to add AI voice-over to a video? | Adding an AI voiceover from the storyboard |
| Topview | Topview Official Guide: AI Audio | Text to speech from a script, in several languages and voices |
| FlexClip | AI Text to Speech Tool | The text-to-speech tool, with a voice library and voice cloning |
Inclusion rule. Readings from the map used on this page. Order. The order the text takes them in.
1From the pages themselves
Step-by-step instructions for syncing audio with images or videos
Katalist Help Center
All you need to know about how to add AI voiceovers to your projects on Pictory.
Pictory Knowledge Base
The AI Audio feature can convert the script that you input into the corresponding audio.
Topview official guides
FlexClip's new AI Text to Speech Tool gives you more flexible options!
FlexClip Help Center
- How to Add a Voiceover to Your Katalist ProjectAdding a voiceover and syncing it on the timeline
- How to add AI voice-over to a video?Adding an AI voiceover from the storyboard
- Topview Official Guide: AI AudioText to speech from a script, in several languages and voices
- AI Text to Speech ToolThe text-to-speech tool, with a voice library and voice cloning
Tools on this page: Katalist · Pictory · Topview · FlexClip
2From a production guide
Set beside “Voiceover”, two passages from the guides SceneMixer publishes about its own pipeline:
Character sheets are always portrait and scene images always widescreen, whatever ratio the videos use.
SceneMixer, Vertical 9:16 or Landscape 16:9 — “Will choosing 9:16 make my character images vertical?” (read 2026-10-13)
SceneMixer generates each character once as a full-body reference sheet — 9:16, plain background, directional key light, identity features written before any technical instruction — and then attaches crops of that sheet to every shot the character appears in.
SceneMixer, AI Character Sheet Generator (read 2026-10-13)