Pick a voice, type a line, hear it back. One success in about a minute — and the two things worth noticing while it plays.
Lesson 1 · start · 4 min read
Open Voice StudioThis lesson has one goal: to get your own words out of a speaker, once, so that everything after it has something to compare against. It takes about a minute of work and costs a rounding error, and skipping it in favour of reading the controls first is the reliable way to spend an afternoon tuning something you have never heard.
The catalogue holds 200+ voices across 200+ languages, which is more choice than is useful on a first pass. Filter to your language, play three previews, take the one you like. The picker previews on a stock line rather than yours, so treat this as a shortlist rather than a decision — you will judge it properly in a moment, on your own words.
Tip
Changing the voice later costs you nothing but the regeneration. Your script, your directions and your settings all survive a voice swap, so there is no reason to agonise now.
One sentence you would actually say. The temptation is to paste in the whole script you came here with, and it is worth resisting for exactly one generation: a single line tells you almost everything a page would, and it tells you now.
Estimated cost
60 credits to narrate 120 characters of text.
About one sentence. Speech is billed per character of text, so the length of what you type is the whole cost model — the studio quotes each generation before it runs, and the server is the authority.
Play it once to confirm it worked. Play it again and listen for the two things this lesson exists to surface, because they are the two questions the rest of the track answers.
Not 'is it a good voice' — is it right for your words. A voice that sounds warm on a demo sentence can sound wrong reading your copy, and that mismatch is only audible on your own text.
Almost certainly not, and that is expected. With no direction, a line gets a neutral read — the only honest default when nothing has told the engine what you meant. Changing it is the next lesson.
Note
Those two questions have completely different answers. The wrong VOICE is fixed by picking another one. The wrong PERFORMANCE is fixed by directing the one you have — and people who confuse the two work through the catalogue looking for a voice that is already in front of them.
You now have a reference clip and an opinion about it. The next lesson is the vocabulary that turns that opinion into a result: how to tell a voice to slow down, where to put a pause you can time, how to fix a word it says wrong, and how to make it laugh.
Questions
Free to start
Reading about a style description only gets you so far. The studio is free to use — write one sentence and hear what comes back.
1,000 credits every month. No card required.