Voice AI Guide

Text to speech

Turns written text into natural speech

Voice cloning

Creates a copy of a specific voice

Speech to text

Transcribes speech into text

Voice assistants

Talk with AI by voice

Voice agents

AI that handles calls and conversations for businesses

Dubbing

Translates speech into other languages, often in the same voice

Voice AI is powerful because voices carry trust. Use it in ways that keep that trust.

• Narrate videos, courses, and audiobooks
• Make content accessible to people who prefer listening
• Choose voices that match your brand
• Tools include ElevenLabs and voices built into many apps

• Clone only your own voice, or with written consent
• Record clean samples in a quiet room
• Use it for narration, fixes, and translations

See our ElevenLabs voice cloning guide for step-by-step instructions.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other assistants offer voice modes. Use them to think out loud, practise languages, prepare for interviews, or get help while your hands are busy.

• Turn meetings, interviews, and voice notes into text
• Get summaries and action items
• Always ask for consent before recording people

• Dub videos into other languages
• Translate conversations in real time
• Have a fluent speaker check important content

• Answer common customer calls
• Book appointments
• Qualify leads
• Hand complex or upset callers to a person
• Tell callers they are speaking with AI

• Short sentences
• Spell out numbers and abbreviations as they should be said
• Use punctuation to control pauses
• Read the script aloud before generating

• Never clone or imitate someone’s voice without permission
• Many places have laws on AI voices in calls, ads, and impersonation
• Label AI voices where platforms or laws require it

• Scammers can clone voices from short clips
• Verify urgent requests by calling back on a known number
• Use a family code word for emergencies
• Be careful posting long, clear recordings of your voice publicly