How to Do a Voiceover on iMovie
iMovie records narration over your timeline, or plays an audio file you drag in. Here is each, and how to use a clean generated voice.
How to do a voiceover on iMovie
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.
To use a ready voice file on Mac: drag the audio clip from Finder onto the timeline below your video.
To record instead: position the playhead, click the Voiceover button (the microphone below the viewer), and record.
On iPhone, tap the add button on the timeline, choose Voiceover to record, or Audio to add a file you saved.
iMovie's voiceover records live, so room noise and retakes are on you. Dragging in a voice generated from text skips both: the line is clean on the first take and easy to re-do by re-generating.
Voiceover on iMovie, answered.
Can I add an audio file as a voiceover in iMovie?
How do I lower the background music under the voice?
Why use a generated voice instead of recording in iMovie?
Voiceovers elsewhere.
The voice itself comes from text to speech. New to it? Read the guide.
Your iMovie 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.