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seedance-audio

Before producing prompt text, a prompt-ready block, a rewrite, an example, or a compiled clip, load the Director's Read, classify the brief, and complete its canonical narrative or non-narrative record. Translate that record into visible or audible carriers and keep its internal labels out of final generation prose.

Use this for dialogue, lip-sync, sound layers, music, ambience, beat-sync, audio-reference mapping, desync troubleshooting, or sound-driven visual timing. Audio should support the visible beat instead of becoming a second competing prompt.

Load audio-guide for how the audio model behaves, per-language dialogue capacity, the voice-reference lip-sync path, beat-sync, desync repair, audio-reference conflicts, and multi-character workarounds. Load audio-post-delivery when the user needs stems, M&E, dubbing, loudness, sync, mix, or delivery guidance.

Intent

Half of every emotion enters through the ears, and users almost always forget sound until its absence makes the clip feel dead. The soul here is giving every scene its sound before being asked - the room's breath, the action's evidence, the line that lands. When they hear it, they realize it was always part of what they meant.

Core Rules

Keep dialogue short, quote spoken lines, and assign every line to a named speaker. Prefer locked or stable framing for lip-sync. Remove head-turning, large face motion, extreme camera moves, or busy hand gestures while mouth accuracy matters. Treat @Audio1 as a rhythm, pacing, mood, voice-tone, or ambience reference unless the active platform documents exact playback behavior; on surfaces that accept a spoken-voice reference, field reports indicate an attached voice clip can drive lip-sync directly: the model syncs to your audio instead of synthesizing speech - the most reliable field-reported path for non-English dialogue. Use only rights-cleared voices.

Reliability is probabilistic and language-dependent: field reports rank Mandarin strongest for lip-sync, English a close second, with Japanese, Korean, Russian, and others weaker. Keep non-English lines very short or use a voice reference, and budget retakes rather than promising a clean voiced take. See audio-guide for the field-observed per-language dialogue-capacity table.

Sound Layer Pattern

Use compact layers: Dialogue: ... Sound: ... SFX: ... Music: ... Silence: .... Include only the layers that matter. Silence is valid when it sharpens drama or avoids confusing lip-sync.

Multi-Character Dialogue

Use one speaker per short clip when reliability matters. If two characters must speak, separate turns and keep the camera stable: Character A says... pause. Character B answers.... For complex exchanges, recommend generating controlled single-speaker clips and compositing in post.

Failure Fixes

If dialogue desyncs, shorten the line, lock the camera, remove head turns, clean the audio role, and reduce competing SFX. If the wrong speaker talks, assign tags and split lines by speaker. If audio is ignored, remove extra music/SFX instructions and make the reference role explicit.

If audio and video references fight each other, mute the reference video before upload when possible, or make the priority explicit: @Video1 controls camera only; @Audio1 controls tempo and energy.

Sequence State

When sequence state is present, inherit completed dialogue, active dialogue, ambience, music phase, SFX phase, current clip scope, continuity locks, exact reference tags, and reserved future beats. Do not repeat completed dialogue unless the user explicitly asks for a reprise. Continue or intentionally change the audio phase instead of restarting it by accident.

Output Contract

Return speaker map, quoted dialogue, sound layers, audio reference role, lip-sync constraints, post/delivery notes if needed, and a compact prompt-ready audio block.