Voice & Audio Workflow
Ciaro's voice and audio tools work best when you think of them as a connected production chain rather than as isolated features.
Voice & Audio Workflow
Ciaro's voice and audio tools work best when you think of them as a connected production chain rather than as isolated features.
A common end-to-end workflow looks like this:
- design a reusable voice
- record or create the source audio
- convert that audio into the designed voice if needed
- apply lipsync to a video clip
Step 1: Design the voice first
Start in the Voices area and create a reusable voice that you can use later in other workflows.
This is the best first step when you want a consistent target voice across multiple lines or scenes.
Read next: Designing a Voice
Step 2: Create or capture the spoken audio
Once the voice exists, the next question is where the spoken performance should come from.
You have two main paths:
- record a voice-over directly in the Video tab when you want a human performance
- create text-to-speech audio when you already know the exact line and want generated speech
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Step 3: Turn the audio into the designed voice when needed
If you already have a recording or source audio clip, you can convert that clip into one of your saved voices.
This is useful when the timing and wording are already good, but you want the final voice identity to match your designed voice.
Read next: Changing a Voice-Over into a Target Voice
Step 4: Apply lipsync to the video
Once you have both:
- a video clip
- a finished audio clip on the timeline
You can use LipSynch to generate a talking version of the video.
Read next: LipSync in the Video Timeline
A practical example
A common production chain is:
- create a reusable voice in Voices
- record dialogue in the Video tab
- run Voice Change on that recording so it uses the designed voice
- align the audio under the video clip on the timeline
- run LipSynch to create the final speaking shot
Which tool to use when
- use Designing a Voice when you want a reusable voice identity
- use Recording Voice-Overs when you want a live performance
- use Text-to-Speech when you want speech generated directly from written text
- use Voice Change when you already have source audio and want to convert it into a saved voice
- use LipSync when you already have a video clip and an aligned audio clip and want the mouth movement to match the speech