Eye contact correction: looking at the lens
Eye contact correction adjusts a speaker's eyes in video so they appear to look into the camera while they were actually reading a script or a screen. As of 2026-09-25.
Captions lists eye contact correction beside AI denoise. Descript has an eye contact tool among its AI tools, next to Studio Sound. Submagic lists it with clean audio, and VEED beside its AI voice cleaner.
The problem it answers is common in talking-head video: a presenter reading from notes looks slightly away from the lens, and viewers notice.
The correction redraws the eyes rather than the head, so it works best when the speaker faces the camera and fails when they turn away.
Blinks and glances are part of natural speech; a correction that holds the gaze too steadily can look fixed.
It is usually a paid feature and is processed after recording, which adds rendering time to each clip.
The four apps that list it are all editors built around recorded speech, the kind of footage it is for.
A look at a clip on a phone, at the size viewers will see it, shows whether the effect reads as natural.
| App | Feature | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Captions | Cleanup | AI denoise and eye contact correction |
| Descript | Cleanup | Studio Sound, filler-word removal and eye contact among its AI tools |
| Submagic | Cleanup | AI clean audio, removal of bad takes and silences, and eye contact correction |
| VEED | Cleanup | An AI voice cleaner, background noise removal and eye contact |
Inclusion rule. Readings from the register used on this page. Order. The order the text takes them in.
1From the apps' pages
AI Denoise
Captions pricing page
Studio Sound Remove Filler Words
Descript pricing page
AI Clean audio
Submagic pricing page
AI Voice Cleaner
VEED pricing page
- Audio enhancementAI denoise and eye contact correction
- AI featuresStudio Sound, filler-word removal and eye contact among its AI tools
- Plan featuresAI clean audio, removal of bad takes and silences, and eye contact correction
- Product menuAn AI voice cleaner, background noise removal and eye contact
Apps on this page: Captions · Descript · Submagic · VEED
2Where the footage comes from
Upstream of an app feature like “Eye contact correction”, SceneMixer describes its own generation steps:
A serialized vertical-video show (typically 60–120 seconds per episode, 9:16) where the cast, scenes, and footage are AI-generated.
SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “What is an AI micro drama?” (read 2026-10-13)
SceneMixer writes dialogue into the script analysis, assigns each line to a shot with a speaker and a short delivery note, and the video model performs it — picture and audio generated together, so the mouth forms that sentence in the language you chose.
SceneMixer, AI Dialogue Generator (read 2026-10-13)