How to stop a narrator reading the timecodes out of your script
Paste the script exactly as you wrote it and tell Vizard Agent not to say the timestamps. It treats the headers, timings and stage directions as instructions rather than lines, reads only the spoken words, and can deliver the narration and the music bed premixed as a single audio file.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say it in the same breath as the delivery format. Both instructions are about what comes back rather than the content, and putting them together means you don't discover the timestamp problem after eleven minutes of narration. You don't need to strip your own formatting first: the structure tells Vizard Agent about pacing and emphasis.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A working script is full of things nobody is supposed to say out loud: timings, section headers, pauses. A narrator that reads them is technically doing what you asked. Vizard Agent parses the markers as structure instead, so they shape the pacing rather than being spoken, and the pacing information survives. In the session behind this article it:
- Searched for a voice matching the accent and gender named, and searched the music library for the mood over several refining passes.
- Checked the script's length against the runtime target and formatted the beats, separating directions from lines.
- Generated the first segment and analysed its tone and delivery twice before committing to ten minutes of it.
- Generated the remaining segments concurrently, checked each beat's duration against the plan and assembled the complete voiceover track.
- Downloaded and analysed the candidate music tracks, converted everything to a uniform format and concatenated it cleanly.
- Measured the loudness of the voice and the music separately and built a crossfaded music bed for the full runtime rather than a loop.
When does this not work well?
Some scripts are genuinely ambiguous about what is a line and what is a direction, and a bracket doesn't always mean "do not read this out". Directions written as prose have no brackets to recognise, and a shouted title can look like a header. Where your convention is unclear, tell Vizard Agent which is which rather than letting it decide.
Common questions
Do I need to clean the script first? No. Vizard Agent reads the markers as structure and leaves them unspoken.
Can I hear a sample first? Yes, and you should. Vizard Agent generates one segment to check the read.
Does the music loop? No. Vizard Agent crossfades a bed across the full length.