Workflow guides
Practical steps for narration, subtitles and video planning.
50 new guides grouped under editorial archive dates October 23–29, 2026. They were published on October 29; archive grouping does not represent earlier publication.
NarrationWorkflow guides
Plan background music around speech, not the other way round
Background music should support the story without making narration harder to follow.
NarrationWorkflow guides
Record clean narration before relying on noise repair
Noise repair is easier to judge when the original recording is already controlled.
NarrationWorkflow guides
SSML or plain text: keep speech controls out of unsupported workflows
Speech markup can express pronunciation or pauses, but only when the chosen synthesis engine understands the requested elements.
NarrationWorkflow guides
Estimate mixed-language narration without treating every character as a word
Mixed-language scripts can make a single words-per-minute value misleading.
NarrationWorkflow guides
Review a synthetic voice with a short, demanding passage first
A convincing voice demo may avoid the vocabulary that makes your project difficult.
NarrationWorkflow guides
Calibrate narration pace using names, numbers and real pauses
A script containing technical names, dates and long quantities may take longer to deliver than an equally long conversational paragraph.