dialogue-and-voicelisted

# Dialogue, voice and audio Audio is generated whether you direct it or not. Leaving it blank is the single most common mistake: the model invents speech, usually in English, and burns the clip. --- ## 1. The audio hierarchy Direct these four, in this order of priority: 1. **Dialogue** — foreground, most important 2. **SFX** — tied to a visible action 3. **Ambience** — the background bed 4. **Music** — **add in post-production only** (see §6) --- ## 2. Dialogue format ``` Dialogue in <LANGUAGE>: <Speaker> speaks in <tone/delivery>. He/She says: <exact words> Voice: <gender>, <age> years old, <language + accent>, <delivery>, <energy>, <emotional quality>. ``` **Three rules that each cost a generation to learn:** ### Quotation marks — the contested one > `[CONTESTED]` Google's Veo prompt guide shows attributed dialogue **with** quotation > marks (*A woman says, "We have to leave now."*). Separate Google guidance says to use > **a colon after the speaker's action and avoid quotation marks**, because quotes push > the model toward rendering the text visually in the video. > > **Field testing sided with the no-quotes form**, and it composes with the known caption > bug — anything that nudges the model toward rendering text makes burned-in subtitles > more likely. **Default to the colon form.** If speech fails to trigger at all, try the > quoted form as a fallback and note which one your footage came from. ``` Prefer: Man says: Bom dia! Fallback: A woman says, "We hav