Your voice

Where: Proxies ▸ Voices Your voice reads every script in your videos. You make it once, from a recording of yourself, in your own account.

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Two ways to make one

Press Add Voice and choose how. There is also Import, if you already have a voice with a supported provider and want to bring it across. An instant clone is the right starting point. You can always make a professional one later.

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Recording well

The recording is the input, so its quality is your voice’s ceiling.

• A quiet room. No open window, no fan, no café. Soft furnishings help more than equipment.
• A headset or your phone’s earbuds beats a laptop microphone.
• Read at your normal pace, the way you would speak to a customer. Not a newsreader, not a rush.
• Read the whole script you are given. It is written to cover the sounds the system needs.
• Listen back before you accept it. If you would not want a customer to hear it, record again.

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Which voice speaks which language

Your voice collection says which of your voices speaks for you in each language. A story picks the voice for its language automatically, so you rarely think about it. It matters when a story is made in a language you have no voice for. Production stops and asks for one rather than speaking the language with the wrong voice. If you are cast for Dutch or French work, add a voice for that language before you accept the request: when you add a voice you choose its language first, and the studio gives you a recording script in that language to read. When you are cast, what gets bound to that outreach is your collection as it stands at that moment, which is why changing it later does not disturb a campaign already running.

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Trying it

Every voice card has a preview, where you can type a sentence and hear it spoken. Use a real one from your own outreach rather than the default sample: your customer’s company name is a better test than a generic phrase. If a name comes out wrong, that is fixable and it is not your voice’s fault. See Pronunciation dictionaries, or tell whoever runs your campaigns.

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Marking your usual voice

One voice is marked preferred. That is the one bound by default when you are cast, and the one used when nothing more specific applies.

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