Not for: Not a generator of speech nobody said. It works with the voices your microphones caught.
Why the voices matter
A highlight with only music loses the part people cry at. The vows, a father’s toast, a grandmother’s blessing and a best friend’s joke are what the couple will play for their children. At many Indian weddings those voices move between languages across the day: one for the ceremony, another for the family, English with the friends. A film that keeps them has to hear all of them.
What Vantacut hears
Speech in 22 Indian languages and English, detected automatically. You do not choose a language before you import or before you press Create. Turn on AI analysis and the speech is heard along with the picture, so a spoken line can count as a moment rather than noise under the song.
How speech shapes the cut
Auto-Edit asks up to three questions only you can answer, such as who matters most and what to leave out, and then shows its plan before it cuts. If the father’s toast matters more than the dance floor, say so. The plan is built from the footage, the song and those answers, and the voices in the footage are part of what it has to work with.
The song ducks under kept dialogue
When a line of dialogue stays in the reel, the song ducks under it and comes back after. That is what lets a vow sit inside the music instead of fighting it. Choose the lines with care: one sentence of the vows, the punchline of a toast, a blessing in the voice of the person who gave it. A highlight is not the place for the whole speech.
Record the speech you will want
The editor can only keep what a microphone caught. Speech that is clear on the clip is speech you can use; a toast lost under the band is not coming back. Mic the officiant and the couple where you can, put a camera on whoever is speaking, and keep the room’s noise in mind when you choose where to stand.
Toasts, emcees and blessings
The same applies across the wedding. Toasts at the reception, the emcee at the sangeet, a blessing at the haldi, the words of a nikah: each is speech, heard the same way. Cut each event to its own song if that is what you sold, and keep the line that belongs to it.
What is shared, and when
To hear the speech, AI analysis shares it with the AI services Vantacut uses, along with low-quality copies of your clips and still frames. The app asks once, before anything is sent. Your original footage and your songs never leave your computer, and editing works offline once you have signed in.
After the cut
The reel opens as a new timeline of ordinary clips. If the cut kept the wrong sentence, swap the clip for the one with the line you want, and trim around it. If the voices are wrong throughout, run Auto-Edit again with different answers about who matters; the footage is not watched again, and the run pays for the reel’s minutes only.
Your footage stays on your computer
Editing, playback and export run on your computer, and your original footage and songs never leave it. To find moments, Auto-Edit shares low-quality copies of your clips, still frames and the speech, and the app asks once before anything is sent. The editor works worldwide, in English; credit packs are priced in Indian rupees.
Questions
Do I have to set the language before I import?
No. Speech is detected automatically, in 22 Indian languages and English. The app itself is in English.
Can I keep a whole speech in the reel?
As much as the song allows, since the song’s length is the reel’s length. Most highlights keep a line or two and leave the full speech for the long film.
Is the speech sent anywhere?
Yes, for analysis. The speech is shared with the AI services Vantacut uses, with low-quality copies of your clips and still frames, after the app asks once. Your original footage and songs stay on your computer.
Get the editor
Windows and Linux now; macOS is coming. The editor is free; create your account when it first opens.