Find the music for your narration

Generate instrumental backing for a separately recorded voiceover. Describe the message, delivery and key phrases, then mix suitable background music with your audio or video.

Tutorials, project introductions and explanationsClear instructions, names and numbers

Occasion

What is this song for?

Voiceover Background Music

Tutorials, project introductions and guided visuals can each follow the tone and pace of the script.

Music settings

Mood

How should it feel?

Music style

Choose its musical direction.

Recommended directionMain instrumentPianoTempoModerate

Music brief (optional)

Describe where the music will play, the mood, and any instruments or rhythm you prefer. Up to 1,500 characters; your music selections alone are also enough.

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VOICEOVER BACKGROUND MUSIC

Find the music for your narration

Generate instrumental backing for a separately recorded voiceover. Describe the message, delivery and key phrases, then mix suitable background music with your audio or video.

Tutorials, project introductions and explanationsClear instructions, names and numbers

Your voiceover background music will appear hereChoose a sound and describe its use. Your generated music will be available to listen to here.

What does the spoken script need the music to do?

A voiceover carries information through wording, emphasis and pauses. Music can help the piece feel coherent, but a busy melody can draw the listener away from the words and make the narration harder to follow. Begin with the script's purpose: explaining a process, introducing a project, guiding a viewer through pictures, or telling a short account. Each calls for a different amount of musical activity.

This page generates instrumental background music; narration is recorded separately and edited with it. Summarize the script’s purpose, speaking pace and preferred instruments. A tutorial with several closely spaced steps can ask for a simple lead melody, while a project introduction may have picture-only stretches for fuller music. Test with an actual recording and listen for names, numbers and sentence endings before deciding on a final version.

Map the script's movement in plain language

A notebook for writing down ideas — Choose passages around the introduction, explanation and conclusion in the script to find natural places for music to enter.

Outline what the introduction presents, what the middle explains and what you want the listener to remember at the end. A tutorial might keep a steady rhythm through several steps, while a personal recollection could develop more gradually. Describe where speech is dense and where there is time to look at a picture or consider an idea. A short summary can be enough to guide the request before you test the recording with the actual narration.

Choose the tone the words already support. Welcoming, measured, curious or quietly confident can guide the soundtrack without overselling the message. Avoid asking music to make a claim sound more certain than the narration can justify. If the wording is unclear, revise it first; a polished backing will not make an ambiguous instruction easier to understand.

Record the voice before settling the final cue

The recorded voice helps establish the rhythm. Three quickly read steps may need steady accompaniment, a conversational introduction may have more pauses, and picture-only moments can feature melody more clearly. Finish the order of the spoken track before adding suitable musical passages. Once the actual sentence lengths and stresses are clear, levels and entrance positions are easier to arrange.

If the voice is still being revised, keep the music edit flexible. Preserve the source recording and avoid making irreversible cuts around a temporary reading. You can test a musical direction early, but the final balance should be judged with the actual narration. Small changes in delivery can make a previously suitable melodic phrase feel crowded beneath an important sentence.

Music for a community seed-sharing project

This fictional brief illustrates music for a separately recorded explanation. The shared demo is not the backing track generated from this example.

Instrumental backing for a voiceover introducing a community seed-sharing project. Residents can take seeds to grow and bring back seeds from their harvest to share. The script introduces the project and explains three steps for joining. Light acoustic guitar and soft piano, a steady rhythm, a simple lead and no vocals. Friendly and natural.

The seed-sharing introduction can begin with friendly guitar, stay simple beneath the three steps and bring piano forward during the closing invitation. Pictures of collecting seeds, reading instructions and returning seeds can correspond to those sections. Listen especially to names and action words. If a piano note covers speech, move the passage or lower the music locally so the process remains easy to follow.

To make the participation steps more concrete, you could add, after confirming the project’s actual process: see which seeds are available, collect a suitable variety and bring seeds back to share after harvesting. These are optional additions to the brief, with names and steps checked against the project’s information. Keep music simple during continuous explanation and let melody emerge over seeds or growing results shown without speech. Finish the narration edit before setting passage lengths so the words remain clear beside each key action.

Choosing instruments beneath narration

A pianist playing the keys — Fewer instruments and a simple melody can make names, numbers and key lines in the narration easier to hear.

Acoustic and light electronic sounds can both form a continuous background, with different amounts of rhythm and melody. Guitar can sit naturally under conversational speech, sustained tones can support continuous explanation, and occasional piano can work between sentences. Listen for whether the lead melody is too dense, then compare it with the finished narration. To reduce activity, ask for less piano while retaining steady accompaniment rather than replacing the entire style.

State that you want no vocals and review for humming or choir-like sounds as well. An instrumental label does not ensure every element will feel nonverbal. If a sound repeatedly draws attention away from the words, choose another passage or a simpler direction. Lowering the entire track may not solve a prominent line that keeps inviting the listener to follow it.

Treat pauses as part of the message

A microphone for recording sound — During a pause, leave room for a breath and a little room sound before the next sentence begins; the music can stay steady underneath.

Pauses in a script often have particular uses. Music can come forward over a picture, remain steady while viewers complete a step, or use a short phrase between the introduction and the instructions. Mark those positions in the script and test the selected passage. Pause lengths should follow the recording and pictures, with the music adjusted in the edit to fit them.

Avoid accents that make a neutral sentence sound like a warning or a sales claim. Listen to the cue's harmonic changes as well as its beat. A rise beneath one word can shift emphasis in a way the speaker did not intend. Review the combination sentence by sentence where the message is important, then listen to the whole piece for natural flow.

Mix for intelligibility on ordinary devices

Start with a low music level beneath the edited voice and raise it only as far as the combination remains comfortable. Check names, numbers and softly spoken endings. Adjust the backing where necessary rather than forcing one setting to serve every sentence. If you use processing such as ducking in your editor, listen for unnatural pumping or sudden changes.

After mixing, check names, numbers and key steps through headphones and a small speaker. Bass and percussion can carry different weight on each device, so adjust local levels where needed. If the voice recording changes, review the transitions again. Keep the source files and project file for a revised duration or added sentence; generated music should not be assumed to include separate instrument stems.

Review the finished message, not only the sound

Headphones for listening to audio — Listen to the exported file once more and check that names, instructions and the closing invitation remain easy to hear over the music.

Listen from beginning to end without looking at the script. Can you follow the explanation? Are there musical moments that suggest a different emotion or obscure a key phrase? Compare a passage with the music muted if the meaning feels uncertain. To change the music, return to the creation page and start a new piece with a revised description; describe the specific problem, such as less movement beneath a dense section or a less emphatic ending.

For a project handover, keep narration, source music and selected excerpts separately, marking the introduction, steps and ending. When a sentence is rerecorded, listen from the sentence before it through the sentence after it before adjusting the music. Check permissions for music, voice and other material before publication. Another language version can begin from the same project, but its recording needs passage positions chosen around the new speaking pace. Previous timings provide a reference rather than a finished edit that can simply be reused unchanged.