How to Record a Voice Over on TikTok

How to Record a Voice Over on TikTok

TikTok’s voiceover tool lets you narrate a video after you pick it, without recording anything live in the camera. The film picks a screen recording from the gallery, opens the microphone tool in the editor and shows the voiceover screen and the voice-effects panel with its volume slider. The actual recording is described in the narration rather than visibly captured, and the film ends on the effects panel - Save and posting are not shown.

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SystemAndroid
AppTikTok
Last verifiedNovember 12, 2026

Every screenshot below is taken from the actual recording on this device — no stock images.

Steps

Open TikTok

Open TikTok from your app drawer. The film starts on the home screen, swipes to the second page of apps and taps the TikTok icon.

Open TikTok

Tap the + button

Tap the + button in the bottom bar to create.

Open your gallery

On the camera screen, tap the small gallery thumbnail at the bottom right to pick a video from your phone instead of recording a new one.

Open your gallery

Select a video

Tap a video in Recents to use it - the operator picks a screen recording of the home screen - and confirm to load it in the editor.

Select a video

Tap the microphone icon

In the editor’s side menu, tap the microphone icon to open the voiceover screen.

Press the record button

Press the big red microphone button to start recording your voice over. Press it again to pause, and again to resume.

Adjust the volume or pick a voice effect

Drag the volume slider above the effects to set how loud the voiceover plays, or tap a voice effect - Megaphone, Echo, Vibrato and more - to change how your voice sounds. The slider knob visibly moves in the film.

Adjust the volume or pick a voice effect

Tap Save

Tap Save at the top right to keep the voiceover and the effect. The film ends on this panel - tapping Save and continuing to Next to post are described in the narration but not shown.

Tap Save

Good to know

The voiceover screen is shown, but the timer stays at 00:00 and the record button is never shown in its recording state - no live recording is visibly captured in the film; pressing record, pausing and resuming are described in the narration.
The film ends on the voice-effects panel. Tapping Save and then Next to post are described in the narration but not shown on camera.
The volume slider is shown being dragged in the film, and the effects panel lists Megaphone, Equalizer, Mic, Vibrato, Synth, Echo, Magnetic, Cave, Telephone, Phonograph, Teenager and Church.
The clip used in the film is a screen recording of the phone’s own app drawer, taken earlier - its status bar reads 9:15. The photos in the gallery grid show other people, so faces there are blurred in the screenshots.
You can also record a voiceover over a clip you just filmed in the camera instead of picking one from the gallery - the microphone tool sits in the same editor menu either way.

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