Narration, music, and sound

Record yourself reading the book, import audio, or generate narration in a choice of voices — then add music that ducks under the voice.

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FreeStudio Plus

Three layers, not a timeline

Multitrack editors are miserable on a phone. Doodle Dragon Studio uses three simple layers instead.

Narration belongs to one page. Record it with your phone’s microphone, or import an MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, or OGG file. Free, on-device, unlimited.

Video sound belongs to a video on a page. Include it or mute it, and set the volume for that page.

Story music belongs to the whole project. Import an audio file, preview it, replace it, or remove it. It loops across the finished export.

Lower music under narration

One switch. When it’s on and a page has narration, the music drops so the voice stays clear. It is deliberately a single conservative control rather than a ducking curve you have to draw.

Generated narration

With Studio Plus, you can have the app read your text aloud in one of several curated voices. You review the text, voice, style, and credit cost before it is sent. The result is then attached to the page, where you can preview or remove it.

Studio Plus Generated narration costs 2 credits per page and is capped at about 2,000 characters of text. Recording your own voice is free and has no limit. Honestly — for a book your child will keep, your voice is the better choice.

What ends up in the export

When you export a video, the app mixes each page’s video sound at its point on the timeline, each page’s narration clipped to that page’s duration, and the story music looped underneath.

Platform difference Full audio mixing in video export currently ships on Android. On other platforms the video exports without the mixed audio layers for now. PDF export is unaffected. This is on the roadmap.