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Use your own voice

Add a person's own voice for your films, with their recorded consent, and use it to voice any film.

A person in your organisation can add their own voice, so films are read in it. It is made from two short recordings: them reading a consent sentence, and ten seconds of them reading anything. Only you can add your own voice.

Before you start

  • A cloud connection on your organisation's Google Cloud project: Connect your Google Cloud. Own voices need Google Cloud Text-to-Speech on that project, as well as Vertex AI.
  • A quiet room and a microphone.

Add your voice

In the app

  1. Open Kits in the rail.
  2. In the Own voices card, click Add my voice.
  3. Type a Name for the voice and choose the Language: English (UK) or English (US).
  4. Under 1. The consent, click Record and read the sentence shown aloud, in your own voice.
  5. Under 2. A sample, click Record and read anything for about ten seconds, naturally. A paragraph from a document works.
  6. Play both back to check them, then click Create my voice.

In the terminal

Record both samples from your Mac's microphone, one after the other:

showreel voices add --name "Sam" --record --language en-GB

The command prints the consent sentence to read after the beep, then asks for the sample. If your Mac asks, allow the terminal to use the microphone. Without --language, it uses English (US).

Voice a film in it

  • In the app, open the film's Voice panel, choose your voice from Voice (it is marked (own voice)), and click Voice the film.
  • In the terminal, use the voice's id, which showreel voices lists:
showreel voice compose --clone 7c1e9a04b2d35f86

A kit can also read every film in an own voice, by naming it as the kit's clone.

See and delete voices

List your organisation's own voices, with who owns each:

showreel voices

Delete one:

showreel voices delete 7c1e9a04b2d35f86

In the app, the Own voices card lists them, with Delete beside your own. In the web app, the Account page lists them too, and an organisation owner can delete any of them there.

Deleting a voice removes its key and the recordings it was made from. Films already voiced in it keep their audio.

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