Russian AI voiceover

The Russian voices, with samples

Each sample reads the same line so you can compare them fairly.

Why Russian gets three voices, not eight

The live voice catalogue simply does not carry the full character set in ru-RU: five of the eight premium characters, Laomedeia, Erinome, Umbriel, Sulafat and Iapetus, are absent from the locale. The product verified this against the catalogue and handles it silently. When the director's casting lands on a missing character, the male request becomes Charon and the female request becomes Aoede, so generation never fails; it just means your style choice has less effect in Russian than in, say, Ukrainian, which carries all eight. What survives is one energetic male, one instructional male, one neutral female.

Casting within the constraint

Puck keeps the upbeat register for promos and social ads, and he is the only voice with real energy here, male or not. Charon reads instructions steadily, and tutorials pin to the instructional style by rule, so a Russian tutorial is effectively a Charon video. Aoede is the sole female option, a neutral read that also stands in whenever a warm or energetic female voice was requested. If this range is too narrow, each scene's voice dialog searches the entire Google catalogue, where ru-RU carries additional voices in older tiers that can fill gaps.

The mechanics stay the same

Everything around the voice works identically to the fuller languages. The director writes native Russian narration and on-screen copy from any brief, since the Language field, not the brief, sets the output. Scenes stretch to their clips, a spilling line finishes over the next cut in dynamic pace, and each scene offers a start delay in seconds plus speed steps from 0.85x to 1.25x. Music ducks itself to 22 percent under speech. Each synthesised clip is billed by length, about half a credit for a typical line, and an export with no pending narration bills only its render time.

Cyrillic on screen, and in the pill

Pick the look with the alphabet in mind. Seven looks caption Cyrillic in their own font, Cascade, Terracotta, Foundry, Deep Sea, Signal, Rosewood and Parchment; elsewhere the glyphs come from a fallback and sit visibly apart from the design. For the script itself, write numbers as words when the spoken form matters, since Russian numerals decline; сто пятьдесят рублей is exact where 150 рублей leaves the case open. Foreign names respell into Cyrillic in the narration box until the read is right, and the em dash, beloved of Russian typography, is banned from generated narration and best left out of manual edits too.

Captions in this script

Cyrillic captions time word by word like any spaced script, each word lighting as the clip reaches it. The font question decides how they look: Inter, Montserrat, IBM Plex Sans and Lora among the look fonts ship Cyrillic, so Cascade, Terracotta, Foundry, Deep Sea, Signal, Rosewood and Parchment caption in their own typeface. Looks on Space Grotesk, Outfit, Plus Jakarta Sans, Lexend, Work Sans, DM Sans or Poppins draw Cyrillic from a fallback font that will not match. The theme panel's font tab adds more Cyrillic-capable families, Roboto and PT Sans included.

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