Add text to your reel
When creating a reel on Instagram, you can add text to it.
- Begin creating a reel on Instagram.
- After recording a reel or choosing a clip to add to your reel, tap at the top right.
- Type in your text, then choose how you want your text to be shown.
- At the top, tap the options for your text’s alignment , color , highlighting , and animation.
- On the left, swipe up and down to change your text’s size.
- At the bottom, swipe left and right to change your text’s font.
- Once you’re happy with your text, tap Done.
- Tap and drag your text to move it.
Add audio to your text using text-to-speech
After you add text to a reel on Instagram, you can add audio to your text with text-to-speech.
- Add text to your reel.
- At the bottom, tap the text you want to add text-to-speech audio to.
- Tap Text-to-Speech at the bottom.
- Swipe through the voice options, and tap to preview.
- You can select from different text-to-speech voices, and preview the sounds before committing.
- Once you’re happy with your audio, tap to select the voice you want to use and tap Done.
- If you no longer want to use text-to-speech, you can select None or Cancel.
Note: Text-to-speech is currently only available in English in select countries where captions are available:
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Canada
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Singapore
- Ireland
- India (English only)