Google Flow: Add Speech to Your Clips
Google’s Flow, an AI filmmaking suite, now includes voice generation. This feature enables you to generate speech in your own clips and add sound effects and background noise. In other words, you can turn images into short cinematic clips with dialogue and sound effects.
Flow is custom-designed for Veo, Google’s Gen AI video model, and text prompting is handled by Gemini, Google’s LLM. With Flow, you can add “assets” such as your own clips to create characters or use Google’s image generation model Imagen, embedded in Flow, to create them. For inspiration, Flow TV offers a showcase of clips, channels, and content generated with Veo.
Google claims tens of millions of videos have been generated in Flow since May. But Flow is currently only available through paid Gemini Advanced plans, Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra. There is no free tier for students or educators, and no K–12 education licenses have yet been announced.
Tom’s Take: Flow positions itself as a professional cinematic AI video tool and benefits from deep integration with Google’s Veo 3, Imagen 4, and Gemini. In other words, Google can offer an entire cinematic system, surpassing the capabilities of simpler tools. It could be of great boon to student storytelling and creativity, Flow is only available to 18+ users, excluding most K–12 students from using it directly without the supervision of a teacher on a school-managed account. Yet, Google has announced plans to extend Gemini to 13+ users and is making Gems available in K-12 Google Workspace for Education student accounts. So, there is good reason to believe that Flow will also find its way directly into students’ hands before too long.
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