Chatbots can write a story for you in seconds, image generators can produce high quality photos by being given just a few words, tools are out there that can clone a voice with just a few minutes of recorded video. AI technology is everywhere, and now converting text into video content is another technology becoming increasingly popular.
Lots of different companies have AI software to convert text to video. It is commonly used as a way to create professional-looking content quickly.
Below are some text to video answers to commonly asked questions.
Text to video is an AI technology that can take just a few words and create a video based on that text. (iStock)
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Meta is just one example of a company that has released a text to video software. (Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
MetaAI is an example of a tool good for making short animations based off of just a few words of text. On the MetaAI website, there are some examples of animations that were created based on text. For one of the examples, the text typed in was “a dog wearing a superhero cape flying through the sky.” The tool was then able to produce an animation showing just that.
There are other tools like Synthesia that make longer, more realistic looking videos. With a tool like Synthesia, a user can choose a video template and an avatar to narrate the video. Then, a written script is typed into the software to create the video. With this software, an individual can then go in and make any desired edits they see fit, like adding backgrounds, colors, and text on the video.
The basic premise of turning text into video is simply typing text into the software and the tool will give you a video display of that text.
For longer, more advanced videos, the user’s editing is likely to be needed, even if it is simply to add some additional elements to the video, like a background for an avatar. For extremely simple, short graphics, there won’t need to be much work done on the user’s part other than creating clear text for the video to be produced by the AI.
