Writing
Written for the ear
Text that reads well silently reads badly aloud. Subordinate clauses, parentheses and long noun phrases all survive on a page and all collapse the moment someone has to say them at speaking pace.
Preview
Not interactive yet
The idea
why cheap olive oil is fine for cooking and bad for salad
- Cheap olive oil is fine. For cooking.
- Heat destroys the part you paid for.
- So save the good stuff for cold.
Three steps
How it will work
Say the point first
Voiceover has no headline. The first sentence is the only guaranteed one, so it carries the claim.
Break every long sentence
If it needs a breath in the middle, it is two sentences and should be written as two.
Read it out loud
The only reliable test. Anything you stumble on is something a listener will lose.
What it is for
Why this one is worth having
Sentence length is the whole craft
Spoken comprehension falls off a cliff past about fifteen words. Written comprehension does not, which is why page copy fails as voiceover.
No sentence that needs punctuation to parse
A listener cannot see a semicolon. Anything whose meaning depends on the punctuation has to be restructured.
Numbers get rounded
Forty-two point seven percent is unhearable. Nearly half is the same claim and it survives being said.
Available now
What you can already do
Clips generated in AI Studio arrive with the caption written and the audio aligned, so the script and the read do not have to be reconciled by hand.
AI StudioFAQ
Voiceover script generator, asked and answered
How many words fit in thirty seconds?
About seventy-five at a natural short-form pace, which is faster than broadcast. Writing to a word count rather than a time is how scripts end up rushed.
Should the script include the hook?
It should be the hook. A voiceover script whose first line is a preamble has already spent the only seconds it was guaranteed.
Does this work for faceless content?
It is mostly what faceless content is. The script is doing all the work the presenter would otherwise do.
More tools
Others in the same corner
- Voiceover generatorMost AI voiceover sounds wrong for short-form for one specific reason: it is paced like an audiobook, and short-form needs the first word to land before the video has finished loading..
- Short-form script writerMost short-form scripts are written front to back and then have an opening bolted on.
- Faceless video generatorFaceless content is not a compromise for shy people.
The product is further along than the tools
Ten free videos, no watermark, and no card to start.