What’s new: natural pauses and prosody control in TwelveLabs

If you have ever heard a voiceover that feels just a beat too fast, you already know why this update matters. Natural pauses are not a luxury. They are the difference between a voice that lands and one that rushes.

What changed

We shipped two improvements: pause control and prosody tuning. Pause control lets you shape timing at sentence boundaries. Prosody tuning helps you dial emotion without breaking clarity.

Why it matters

These changes are about trust. When a voice sounds natural, people listen longer. In our internal tests, teams reported fewer rewrites and less time spent on manual editing.

How to use it

Start with your script and identify the moments where you want the listener to breathe. Add a pause tag or break the line. Then adjust prosody for emphasis. Think of it like direction, not settings.

Here is a simple example:

const payload = {
  text: "This is the moment. Take a breath. Then hit play.",
  pauseBehavior: "natural",
  prosody: { emphasis: "moderate" },
};

The bigger picture

We are building toward voices that keep your intent intact at scale. That means more control for creators and more consistency for teams that ship audio weekly.

Try it in TwelveLabs Text to Speech and tell us what you hear.