The Host Says the Hours Once
Speak the hours once. Repeat them in the caption so a silent viewer still gets the open and the close.
The host says the hours once. The caption says them again, in the same order, so someone with the sound off still gets the open and the close. Repeating the times out loud makes a short reel feel like an announcement loop. Speak the hours you actually keep, in the first sentence, inside the first 3 seconds. Then stop. One person speaks. Put the caption in the upper middle. Burn it in if the same file will also go to TikTok or Shorts. If the face or the voice is realistic, label it as AI. Say the open and the close once, including a different day only if you keep it, and let the caption do the repeat. Keep one speaker. A practical reel is 15–45 seconds. The first 3 seconds show the gallery host at the door and say those hours a single time. Reject a second spoken pass, painted times on the wall, or a platform label that was covered. If the face or the voice could be mistaken for a real person, the caption must say it is AI, and the platform label stays where it appears.
One spoken pass
Say the open, then the close, once. If a day is different, include that day in the same pass, and do not come back to it. A second verbal repeat is how people lose the thread. Trust the caption to hold the line for the rest of the reel. The picture can stay on the door or the counter. Speak the open, then the close, once, and trust the caption for the rest of the hold on the door. The first 3 seconds show the doorway and say the hours. Reject a verbal loop that makes the short reel feel like an announcement.
The caption is the repeat
Choose one caption style and type the hours exactly as you spoke them. The upper middle keeps the line off the face and off the bottom buttons. Burned-in captions help when the file goes to TikTok or Shorts, because a platform-only caption will not travel with the download. Silent viewers are the reason for the repeat. Type the hours exactly as you spoke them, in the upper middle, and burn them in if the file will also go to TikTok or Shorts. In the first 3 seconds the silent viewer can already read the times while the voice says them once. Do not post a caption that drifts from the spoken order.
No painted hours
The wall and any sign shape in the still stay blank. You are not asking the picture to letter the times. Your voice says them once, and your caption types them. A realistic face or voice is labeled as AI in that same caption. Leave the platform label where it appears. Leave the wall and any sign shape blank, and put the AI sentence in that same caption if the face looks real. In the first 3 seconds, viewers hear the hours once and see no painted clock. Throw out lettering you asked the picture to invent before the file goes up.
A worked example
A small gallery host stands at the door and says the Christmas week open and close once, including the shorter day if that is the real schedule. The caption in the upper middle repeats those hours and says the host is AI. The wall has no painted times. The mouth does not say the hours a second time. Stand at the door, say the Christmas week hours once, and let the upper-middle caption repeat them. The first 3 seconds show the host and say the open and the close. Reject a second spoken pass and painted times. One speaker, 15–45 seconds. If the face looks real, the caption says the host is AI.
Before you post
- Speak the hours once.
- Repeat them in the caption.
- Label a realistic host as AI.
Where Scro fits
Scro has one person speak the hours once, then offers 13 caption styles so the caption can repeat them. Export 9:16. If the face or the voice is realistic, label it as AI and leave the platform label in place. Use one caption style as the repeat and export 9:16. The first 3 seconds show one person and say the hours once. Reject a second verbal pass. If the face or voice could be mistaken for a real person, the caption says it is AI, and the platform label stays put.
Say the hours once. Finished samples are on the examples page.
Related: Price Spoken, Not a Fake Tag.