Voice and lip sync

Every recorded voice, Arabic first, made on ElevenLabs: casting the dialect, spelling for the engine, takes and checks. Then every speaking shot: its route, the sound-off plate and the lip sync on the exact approved take.

Voice and Arabic dialects

Every recorded voice in a film, voiceover and on-screen dialogue alike, is made here, with ElevenLabs Eleven v4 on your own account. This section casts each dialect by ear, spells each line so the engine reads it right, sets the engine, picks and locks the takes, and checks them. Lip sync is in Speaking shots and lip sync; how a line is written in its dialect is in The brief and research → Dialect rules.

• The voice route: Every final line comes from ElevenLabs Eleven v4 on your own account.

• Cast the dialect, don't prompt it: A voice brings its own accent; a tag, a language code or a style line cannot add one [official guidance].

• Casting a voice: Shortlist three voices per role, expose the dialect, measure, and let a native listener of that dialect choose.

• Three texts per line: Every line exists in up to three forms.

• Spelling for the engine: The engine reads exactly what it is given.

• ElevenLabs settings, tags and pace: Set every value on every call.

• Voice takes and the delivered file: Two takes per line, measured, chosen by a native ear, locked, and never touched again.

• Measured checks and the back-check: Every take is transcribed and compared, word by word, with its canonical line.

• The native reviewer: A native ear of the exact dialect passes every Arabic line, spoken or sung, never only the key lines (decided).

• Ten complete line scripts: Ten lines ready to run, written for this guide with invented brands.

• Voice failures and fixes: Find the symptom; make the one fix it names.

Speaking shots and lip sync

A speaking shot is made in two halves: the picture performs, then the mouth is fitted to the exact recording the client approved. This section sets the route for every speaking shot, Arabic first, with its checks and its money. The voices themselves are made in Voice and Arabic dialects → Voice takes and the delivered file.

• Choosing the route per shot: Choose each speaking shot's route in your shot plan (the plan you make before generating; see Planning, budgets and takes), before anything is generated.

• Route 2, the Arabic default: Record the line, measure it, stage for the mouth, generate a sound-off plate at the line's beats, check it free, fit the lips with Sync-3, and ship the exact take.

• The camera during speech: During the words the camera breathes or pushes very slowly, the push written large enough to show; bigger moves come before the first word or after the last (decided).

• Harder speaking shots: Three tools for speaking shots that need more than the plate's basic lines.

• Checks on the 1080p result: Each Sync output passes these checks before it counts as a take.

• Route 1, for close-up hero lines: Seedance hears the approved recording and acts to it; the exact take still ships, through Sync-3, inside a timing gate.

• Other speaking routes: The routes for speaking shots that don't fit the default.

• The re-voiced read: Seedance's returned voice is never the approved take.

• English lines and Seedance's own voice: English principal lines have their own decided route.

• Attempts and budget per line: A hero speaking shot is high risk.

• Lip-sync failures and fixes: Find the symptom, read its cause, and change that one thing.

• Templates C, E and F: Three fill-in prompts for speaking and singing shots, written for this guide.