# Turn text into a YouTube Short > Turn text into a YouTube Short: Nova narrates your script in an AI voice with word-by-word captions over background footage, cut to 9:16 and ready to upload. First Short free. *Text to YouTube Shorts* Canonical: https://novaclipper.com/for/text-to-youtube-shorts A faceless Short is words, a voice and footage. Nova makes all three from your text: paste the script, pick a voice, and it narrates, captions every word and lays it over footage that fits the topic. Download the vertical video and upload it to YouTube Shorts. ## What you get ### Built for Shorts Vertical 9:16, under a minute when the script is, with captions large enough to read on a phone. ### A channel without a camera Facts, stories, explainers and lists — the formats faceless Shorts channels post every day — all from text. ### No script yet? Describe the Short in one sentence and Nova drafts a script you can edit before it makes the video. ## FAQ ### How do I turn text into a YouTube Short? Paste your script into Nova's faceless mode and choose a voice. Nova returns a vertical video with AI narration, word-timed captions and background footage, ready to upload as a Short. ### Can I use it for a faceless YouTube channel? Yes — the voice and footage are generated, so you never appear on camera or record audio. ### Is it free? Your first faceless short is free — no card. Nova gives every new account one full faceless render so you can judge the voice, the captions and the finished video before paying for anything. After that, shorts come in one-time packs from $0.99 with no subscription, or a monthly plan from $15 gives you up to 300 a month. --- Nova turns long-form video into vertical short-form clips with AI moment detection, face-aware 9:16 reframing, and word-by-word captions — and makes faceless videos from a script or a Reddit thread. Free tier: 30 minutes/month, no card. [Start free](https://novaclipper.com/signup) · [All use cases](https://novaclipper.com/for) · [Free tools](https://novaclipper.com/tools)