6 Voice Clone Tips, Updated Report, Free website checker tool
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate it!
This week:
AI Voice Clone
Updates to my V123 Optimization Report
Free website checker tool
Elevenlabs for AI Voice Cloning
This is the only platform I recommend folks use to make a professional voice clone that you can either make money off of by letting people use it at will (which you get paid for based on the amount of characters they use), or that you can keep private and control the use of.
In the recent V123 Pros webinar where they talked about updates from the CEO of Voice123—which was great btw, if you missed it then nyah nyah—one statistic was really interesting to me: Most voice seekers want to hire the real voice talent AND to use an AI clone of them, at a ratio of 80/20 or 90/10. That’s pretty sweet. You can offer your clone for things like scratch tracks, or pickups, and you can connect your Elevenlabs voice clone to Voice123 as well. (No, clients can’t use your clone directly on V123, they still have to reach out to you.)
After meeting with several of you to find out what you most wanted to know about voice clones on Elevenlabs, here are some of the most common questions, and 6 tips on making your voice clone:
How do I prevent people from using my voice clone for something I don’t want it used for?
First of all, the platform automatically disallows hate speech and porn.
Second, there’s an additional level of moderation you can turn on, called live moderation. It’s like an additional level of security. It used a different method to prevent hate speech etc. so a side effect is that your clone can’t be used by AI Agents,
Third, your voice clone will talk the way you train it to with the audio you upload, and it is not easy to make it break out of that style. So, if you upload audiobook-style audio, then when you/a client puts in text to generate audio with that clone, it will sound like it’s narrating an audiobook. It’s not going to suddenly switch to commercial, or promo. It would be super weird of someone to use an audiobook clone to voice a political spot. So:
TIP 1: Make a clone for a specific genre of audio. Be deliberate! Upload audio that is your work in that genre to train the clone, and that’s all the clone can do on its own without lots of extra effort on your/the user’s part (and if it’s hard to do, it will deter most folks, because the point of a clone is to be fast, easy, and cheaper than using a human!)
How can I make money with my voice clone?
There are a few ways. You can set your clone to public use and allow anyone who has an Elevenlabs account to use it. You get paid based on how much your clone is used.
TIP 2: Write up a solid description of your voice clone and how it can best be used if you are going to allow it to be public on Elevenlabs. You want it to be found in search!
You can also not share your clone, and if your clients want to use ir, have them go through you. Then you can charge whatever you want, and you can check that you approve of every script.
TIP 3: Prepare samples of your voice clone for clients to preview and put them on your website.
How do I make the voice clone?
You will want to make a high quality clone in order to make the most money. The audio needs to be high quality and recorded in your home studio, and it needs to be nicely edited. If your /s/ is too harsh or too loud, fix it. If your breaths are obnoxious, fix them. If you have mic pops on plosives… you get the idea. Your clone will be trained from the audio you give it, so give it high quality audio.
TIP 4: Record all of the audio in the same place, on the same mic, processed the same way.
The minimum is two hours, but I have found that more is better!
TIP 5: Collect at least 3 hours of audio, saved as MP3.
You also need to think about how the clone should sound and what the clone should be able to do. Does it need to ask questions? What kind? Does it need to say headings differently? Does it breathe? Does it use filler words like “uh”? Whatever you want it to do, be sure you have included in the input audio!
TIP 6: Before you publish your clone, test the snot out of it to make sure it can handle everything you throw at it. Make notes of anything it does poorly, and if it’s something important to the genre, go record 30 more minutes of audio of yourself doing that thing, and them retrain the clone.
Updated Report / Analysis / Optimization Kit - v 2.1
To keep in line with updated best practices on V123, I have adjusted my tool so that you’re no longer only considered to have “complete” samples if you have two Purposes of Recording.
Since the name of the game is specificity (and if you don’t know exactly what I mean, I recommend you become of a member of the V123 Pros course ~ they will teach you, they update their course as things change, and you get lifetime membership) you can have just one Purpose assigned to each sample, and still theoretically get an A+.
What Purpose of Recording do you wish V123 would add?
I have also added the new Purpose of Recording “AI Model Training” as well.
Next, I’ll re-do the grading metric to continue aligning with the new best practices on V123.
Free website checker tool
Check this out:
Put in your website and it will analyze it across four metrics: Performance (Is it fast? Is it built well?), Accessibility (Is it easy to read?), Best Practices (Are there deprecated APIs? 3rd party cookies?), and SEO (Do you have alt tags? Is it set up for SEO?)
There’s no reason for you not to be 80-100 across the board.
It will give you details about anything you fail, so you can improve your site piece by piece!
Best,
Nikki