Neither Book nor Film: a new story format is emerging

Prague, 22 September 2025 – The Czech startup Wizionary® is launching the first platform that merges text, music, and video into a new story format. Neither book nor film — Wizionary fills the space between the written word and audiovisual creation. It combines audio, video, and rhythmically synchronized text.

“For years I struggled with whether to be a writer or a music artist — until I decided to do both at once,” says Kryštof Bernat, creator of Wizionary. “Soon I realized I was creating a new storytelling format.”

A new storytelling format

Wizionary stands at the intersection of literature and film. It adds rhythm and imagery to books, and gives films back the intimacy of the author’s voice and the power of words. In practice, the story is both read and watched at the same time — the text appears on the screen precisely in the rhythm of the music.

At its core, Wizionary is a story assembler. Authors connect video, music, sounds, and their own text into a structured narrative. Words “pop in” to the rhythm of the music and gain cinematic dynamism. Unlike platforms for quick video consumption, Wizionary brings longer, episodic storytelling — something between a book and a series. Today’s social platforms offer bursts of content rather than a space for narrative. On Wizionary, creators gain full control over the structure, tempo, and emotional impact of their work.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. Music meets story so naturally here that I see the future in it.” — user testing participant.

How it works

1. Choose media from Wizionary’s extensive library — 32,000 songs, 130,000 videos, 72,000 sound effects.
2. Write and time the text to the rhythm of the music.
3. Split the story into episodes.
4. At the end of an episode, you can offer readers a choice of where the story goes next.

What is Wizionary®
Wizionary is a Prague-based startup developing the first structured audiovisual platform for storytelling. Its unique format connects rhythmized text, music, sounds, and video, offering a new mode of interactive storytelling. From launch, the platform is available in 61 languages and targets a global audience. Its goal is to enable creators to compose compelling audiovisual stories easily, intuitively, and without technical barriers.

Yayu Bernat Lopatio
press@wizionary.com

Notes for editors

• Target groups: story creators (writers, screenwriters, parents with children), creators using AI video, schools in creative fields.
• Technical definition of the format: text is displayed over video and timed to the rhythm of the music; the result is a smooth “read-and-watched” narrative.
• Availability: from launch in 61 languages.
• Background (for interviews): founder Kryštof Bernat spent three years pursuing a U.S. patent for the method “A computer-implemented method for telling a story through sequential layers by an artist”; this topic is suitable for a profile interview about the format’s development.