Luma Audio Capabilities

Luma Audio Capabilities

You can generate music, sound effects, and voiceovers from text. You can sync audio to character lip movements. You can transcribe and analyze any audio for beats, words, and timing. And you can layer it all together — voice, music, SFX — into polished video compositions.

• Sound effects (SFX)
• Music generation
• Text-to-speech voiceovers
• Emotional voice control
• Transcription (word-level timestamps)
• Audio-driven lip sync
• Multi-language voice production

Audio in Luma can function as:

• Atmosphere
• Narrative driver
• Brand identity layer
• Emotional amplifier
• Localization engine

Music

Text-to-Music

Describe a genre, mood, tempo, instrumentation, or vibe and get a full music track generated.

Vocals or Instrumental

Generate music with or without vocals. Want a lo-fi trap beat? An epic orchestral score? A pop track with singing? Just describe it.

Full-Length Tracks, Not just short loops

generate proper musical compositions to score your projects.

Sound Effects

Generate short, high-quality sound effects (5–10 seconds)

• Create environmental ambience
• Produce cinematic impacts
• Generate UI sounds
• Create foley-style textures
• Build atmospheric sound beds

Text-to-SFX

Describe any sound and get it generated (5–10 seconds). Explosions, footsteps, rain, doors creaking, sci-fi whooshes etc.

Layered Design

Generate multiple SFX and combine them in video compositions for rich sound design.

Voiceovers

Text-to-Speech

Write any dialogue or narration and get a natural human-sounding voiceover.

Emotion & Expression Tags

Control delivery with tags like [excited], [whisper], [sad], [angry], [laughing] baked right into the text.

Wide Voice Catalog

Choose from a diverse library of voices across genders, ages, accents, and personalities.

Narration, Dialogue, Ad Copy

Whether it's a documentary narrator, a character speaking, or a punchy ad read, it's all covered.

Audio + Video: Lip Sync

Audio-Driven Lip Sync

Pair any audio track with a video of a character and generate realistic mouth movement synced to the words.

Emotion & Expression Control

Advanced lip sync that doesn't just move lips, it adjusts the character's facial expressions and emotional reactions to match the audio.

Any Audio Source

Works with generated voiceovers, uploaded recordings, or any audio file.

Audio Natively in Video

Video with Built-In Audio

Some video models generate synchronized audio alongside the visuals — dialogue, ambient sound, music, all in one pass from a text prompt.

No Separate Assembly Needed

The audio is baked into the video output automatically.

Transcription & Analysis

Audio-to-Text Transcription

Extract every spoken word from any audio file with word-level timestamps.

Video Audio Transcription

Same thing, but pulled directly from video files.

Streaming Audio Transcription

Transcribe audio from streaming videos.

Beat Detection

Identify beats, rhythmic peaks, and musical structure in audio tracks.

Silence Detection

Find pauses and silence points, useful for editing and timing.

Audio Timing Analysis

Full breakdown of word timestamps, beats, and silence points for precision sync work.

Audio in Video Compositions

Score Your Videos

Layer generated music underneath your video as a soundtrack.

Add Voiceover to Video

Combine narration or dialogue with video in a rendered composition.

SFX Layering

Add sound effects at specific moments in your video timeline.

Caption Sync

Use word-level timestamps from transcription to drive perfectly timed animated captions and subtitles on video.

Multi-Track Mixing

Combine voice, music, and SFX together in a single programmatic video render.

Audio for Social & Ads

Ad Voiceovers

Generate punchy, platform-optimized voice reads for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube ads.

Product Review Narration

Create authentic influencer-style voiceovers for product review videos.

Hook Audio

Generate attention-grabbing audio for the first few seconds of social content.

Import Audio

Upload

Drop audio files directly onto your board.

Web Download

It can search the web and pull audio/media onto your board.

Extract from Video

Transcribe and work with audio that's already embedded in your video files.