Luma's 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.