Syllab Tools
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v3.19.0 · After Effects · Windows
Detect the lyrics. Get animated text layers. Right in After Effects.
Syllab Tools is a panel for editors: an AI running on your PC finds every sung word, you review the lines, and the panel creates one animated text layer per line.
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Timed word by word
The timing of every word, doubtful lines flagged, the isolated voice to listen back.
Your edit follows the music
Beat markers, isolated voice, your sound preset landing on the drop.
Everything undoes
One panel action is one undo step in After Effects.
Lyrics, beats, voice, drop
The tools that listen to your music for you.
- Lyrics
- Detect, review and generate animated text
- Beat markers
- Markers on the strong beats, live sensitivity
- Voice isolation
- The voice on one layer, music and noise on another
- Drop
- Your sound preset landing right on your drop markers
Cut out, recenter, animate
The big editing tools, plus 11 one-click actions.
- Person mask
- Cut out the person in a clip, to put text behind them
- Auto Face Track
- Recenters the face in one click, shot by shot
- Auto Tracker
- Tracks a face or a point and recenters each shot
- Expressions
- Expression library with sliders
- My presets
- Your .ffx preset library, sorted by category
- Curves
- Keyframe curve editor
- + 11 tools
- Text, Precomp, Decomp, Copy, Paste, Null, Solid…
Render to MP4, keep editing
The active comp to MP4 in the background, without blocking After Effects.
Four steps
- Source
Select your clip in the timeline.
- Detection
The voice is separated from the music, then transcribed word by word.
- Review
Fix, listen back, merge or add lines.
- Generation
One animated text layer per line. One Ctrl+Z removes everything.
Nothing leaves your PC
No account, no file upload. Internet is only used to install and to download the AI models once.
- After Effects
- 2020 to 2026
- System
- Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit
- Graphics card
- NVIDIA recommended (otherwise CPU, slower)
- Disk
- about 8 GB (engine + models)
Are my files sent online?
No. Everything runs on your computer.
Does it work without an NVIDIA card?
Yes, on the CPU, but much slower.
Mac?
No, Windows only for now.