Google Veo 3 Prompt Guide: How to Write Video + Audio Prompts (2026)

Google's Veo 3 (and its updated Veo 3.1 release) is the first mainstream AI video generator with integrated audio generation — ambient sound, music, and dialogue can all be specified in the same prompt. This fundamentally changes how you write video prompts.

What makes Veo 3 different

Most AI video generators require a separate audio track. Veo 3 generates video and audio from a single prompt. A prompt describing rain on a city street will produce both the visuals and the sound of rain.

This means Veo 3 prompts need a new element: audio description.

The Veo 3 prompt structure

A complete Veo 3 prompt has five components:

• Scene: Who, what, where
• Action: What moves and how
• Camera: Shot type, movement, focus
• Mood/Style: Lighting, tone, era
• Audio: Sound description — ambient, music, dialogue, silence

Writing the audio layer

This is Veo 3's unique contribution. For ambient audio:

... ambient sound of [environment], [weather conditions if applicable], [distance/intensity]

For music:

... [genre] music in the background, [tempo], [instrumentation], [emotional quality]

For dialogue:

... a person says '[dialogue]' with [vocal quality/accent/emotion]

For silence:

... no music, ambient silence, [or: sound of [specific element] only]

15 Veo 3 copy-paste prompts

• A woman walks alone through a sunlit wheat field at harvest time. She trails her hand through the grain. Slow tracking shot at waist height. Warm afternoon light. Ambient sound of wind through wheat, distant birds, no music.
• Time-lapse of a thunderstorm building over a mountain lake, from clear skies to dramatic lightning. Fixed tripod shot, wide angle. Sounds of growing wind, thunder building, rain intensifying.
• A barista prepares a pour-over coffee in a quiet morning cafe. Close-up on hands and the bloom of the pour. Soft morning light. Sound of water pouring, gentle ambient cafe noise, no music.
• Children playing in a fountain in a European city square on a summer afternoon. Wide establishing shot pulling back to reveal the square. Ambient city sounds, water splashing, children laughing.
• A lone cyclist descends a mountain road at sunrise, sharp turns, motion blur at speed. Drone tracking shot, low altitude. Sound of wind rushing, tire on asphalt, ambient mountain quiet.
• An elderly man plays a solo piano in an empty concert hall. The camera slowly pushes in from the back of the hall to a close-up on his face. The piano piece is melancholic, Chopin-style, no other sound.
• Bioluminescent waves break on a beach at night. Long exposure-style, no people. Slow, meditative. Sound of waves only — nothing else. The glow pulses with each break.
• A street chef stirs a wok in a busy Bangkok night market. Heat and steam visible. Documentary style, handheld camera, natural light from market stalls. Sound of sizzling, crowd chatter, Thai street market ambience.
• A rocket launch from a coastal pad at dusk. Wide shot of the launch, then crane up as it ascends. Sound of countdown silence, ignition roar, crowd cheering, then the echo of engines as it climbs.
• First-person point of view walking through a Japanese forest in autumn. Slow, peaceful pace. Sound of leaves underfoot, wind through trees, distant stream, birds.

Veo 3.1 improvements

Veo 3.1 (released mid-2026) improved on 3.0 in three areas:

• Lip sync: Dialogue audio now matches mouth movement significantly better
• Physics: Water, fabric, and hair movement are more realistic
• Temporal consistency: Objects and characters persist more reliably across longer clips

These improvements make Veo 3.1 particularly strong for narrative content, dialogue scenes, and product shots with moving subjects.

Accessing Veo 3

Veo 3 is available through Google VideoFX (consumer, waitlist-based), Vertex AI (enterprise API), and integrated into YouTube's creation tools for qualifying creators.

Using a video prompt generator

Veo 3's audio layer adds meaningful complexity to prompt writing — you're now writing for sight and sound simultaneously. A video prompt generator that's aware of Veo's audio capabilities structures your idea into a complete visual + audio description, ensuring neither element is underdeveloped.