# Text nodes

> Source: https://sumistudio.ai/en/docs/text-nodes
> Last updated: 2026-10-29
> Index: https://sumistudio.ai/llms.txt · Full text: https://sumistudio.ai/llms-full.txt

Text nodes hold words: ideas and prompts you write yourself, or text the AI generates or reads out of an image or audio clip. They often feed image and video generation downstream.

## What they're for

Text plays two main roles on the canvas. It can be a prompt or script connected to downstream image or video nodes, where it takes part in their generation. Or it can be the result of a text generation task itself (the AI continuing or rewriting text).

## Create and generate

- Choose “Text” in the “Add node” menu to create a text generation node, then type in it or let the AI continue or rewrite the text;
- Connect a text node's output to an image or video node, and its text is combined with that node's own prompt for generation;
- What you write in a text node is never machine-translated. It stays exactly as you wrote it.

(Image: A selected text node connected to an image generation node as its upstream prompt)

## Reading images and speech to text

Open the “Text” group from the “+” beside a neighboring node to create nodes whose result is text:

- “+” beside an image node → “Text”: creates a text generation node that can read the image, for example to describe the picture or write a prompt for it;
- “+” beside an audio node → “Text”: speech to text, which pulls the words out of an audio clip.

Both are paid generations, and you see the credit estimate before you create them.

> Text can feed prompts upstream or be a generated result · Text you write is never machine-translated · Image descriptions and speech-to-text results are text nodes too