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How to Do a Voiceover on Canva

Canva plays audio you upload and times it to your design. Generate a clean voice, upload, and drag it onto the timeline.

Step by step

How to do a voiceover on Canva

  1. Generate the voice in Cantari: paste your script, pick a voice, and generate a natural read in seconds, then export the audio file (MP3 on every plan, WAV on paid plans). No microphone, no retakes.

  2. Generate your narration and export the audio file.

  3. In Canva, open the Uploads tab, upload the audio file, then drag it onto the timeline at the bottom of your video or presentation.

  4. Trim and position the clip on the audio track, and use the page durations to line the narration up with each scene.

Canva's timeline times your audio to the visuals page by page. Generating the narration first means you know its exact length, so you can set each page's duration to match instead of trimming a noisy live recording.

Straight answers

Voiceover on Canva, answered.

Does Canva let me record a voiceover?
Canva's Present and record captures you talking over a presentation, but for a clean voiceover on a video most people upload an audio file and drag it onto the timeline. Generating the file gives you the cleanest result.
How do I sync the voice to each scene?
Set each page's duration to match the narration for that scene. Because a generated clip has a known length, this is exact rather than guesswork.
What audio formats does Canva accept?
Common formats including MP3 and WAV upload fine through the Uploads tab.
Keep going

Voiceovers elsewhere.

The voice itself comes from text to speech. New to it? Read the guide.

Your Canva voiceover starts with the voice.

Generate a natural read from your script in seconds, export it, and add it the way this guide shows. No microphone required.