Before you run anything
Whose voice you may use
Every conversion involves two people: whoever is speaking in the file you upload, and whoever the target voice belongs to. Nothing in the tool checks either one, which is why this list is on the front page of the track rather than buried in a lesson.
- Your own voice, converted to a voice you cloned from yourself
- Go ahead. Both people are you. This is the case the tool is really built for, and it is the only one with nothing to check.
- Your own voice, converted to a voice somebody licensed to you
- Go ahead. Fine, within whatever that licence says. Read what you were actually granted — permission to use a voice in a product is not always permission to use it in an advertisement.
- Your voice, converted to a voice you cloned from someone else
- Not without permission. The target's permission is required, and it has to be permission for a synthetic voice specifically. Somebody agreeing to be recorded has not agreed to be reproduced.
- Somebody else's recording — an interview, a call, a meeting
- Not without permission. The speaker's permission is required as well as the target's, and it is the one people forget. They agreed to be recorded saying that. They did not agree to be heard saying it in a stranger's voice.
- A public figure, an actor, a singer, a character from a film
- No. Somebody's voice, usually somebody's livelihood, and frequently a protected performance. That a clean recording is easy to find is not a permission, and a disclaimer in the description is not one either.
- Making it sound as though someone said something they did not
- No. This is the thing the technology is genuinely dangerous for, and there is no version of it that is fine because the clip was short or the intent was funny. Do not.