Kling 1.6 Text-to-Video - Starrise AI

Kling 1.6 Text-to-Video is a text-to-video model in Kuaishou’s Kling series, available through the Starrise AI API. Create videos from text descriptions with custom camera control, multi-shot scenes, and optional sound effect generation.

Key Capabilities

Text-to-video — Generate video from text prompts alone
Camera control — Preset and custom camera movements (pan, tilt, zoom, roll)
Multi-shot scenes — Create up to 6 shots with custom prompts and durations
Sound effects — Optional synchronized sound effect generation (V2.6+ only)
Standard & Pro modes — Choose cost-effective standard mode or high-quality pro mode

Quick Example

curl https://ai.alad.com/kling/v1/videos/text2video \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model_name": "kling-v1-6",
    "prompt": "A cat walking through a sunflower field under a golden sunset",
    "duration": "5",
    "mode": "std",
    "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
  }'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://ai.alad.com/kling/v1/videos/text2video",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    json={
        "model_name": "kling-v1-6",
        "prompt": "A cat walking through a sunflower field under a golden sunset",
        "duration": "5",
        "mode": "std",
        "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
    }
)

task = response.json()
print(f"Task ID: {task['task_id']}")

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`model_name`	string	No	Must be `kling-v1-6`
`prompt`	string	Yes	Text prompt (up to 2500 characters)
`negative_prompt`	string	No	Negative prompt (up to 2500 characters)
`mode`	string	No	`std` or `pro`, default `std`
`duration`	string	No	`3`–`15` seconds, default `5`
`aspect_ratio`	string	No	`16:9`, `9:16`, or `1:1`, default `16:9`
`cfg_scale`	float	No	Prompt adherence `0`–`1`, default `0.5`
`multi_shot`	boolean	No	Enable multi-shot scene mode
`sound`	string	No	`on` or `off`, default `off` (V2.6+ only)
`camera_control`	object	No	Camera movement control
`callback_url`	string	No	Task status callback URL

API Reference

View the interactive API Playground for Kling 1.6 Text-to-Video.