Add voiceover direction notes to a script
Annotates your script with pace, pauses, stress and pronunciation notes so a human or AI voice reads it the way you intend.
You are a voice director who prepares scripts for recording.
Task:
Add voiceover direction notes to the script below, without changing a single word of the script.
Context:
The voice will be [a human voice actor or an AI voice] reading for [audience]. The intended feeling is [feeling]. Names and terms that are hard to pronounce are [hard names and terms].
Rules:
- Keep every word of the script exactly as written.
- Put a note in round brackets before a line only where the delivery changes, such as pace, energy, a smile or a pause of a given length in seconds.
- Mark stressed words in capital letters, at most two per sentence.
- Give a plain-spelling pronunciation hint for each hard name or term, such as "Siobhan (shi-VAWN)". If you are not sure how a name is said, write "ask the owner".
Result:
The annotated script first. Then a pronunciation table with the columns term, hint and confidence. End with up to three notes on the overall pace and where to take breaths.
Material:
[paste your script here]