Voice AI Guide

Text to speech

Converts written text into natural-sounding speech

Voice cloning

Produces a copy of one specific voice

Speech to text

Turns spoken words into a transcript

Voice assistants

Let you talk with AI out loud

Voice agents

Handle calls and conversations on behalf of businesses

Dubbing

Translates speech into other languages, often keeping the same voice

Voice AI is powerful because people trust voices. Use it in ways that protect that trust.

• Narrate videos, courses, and audiobooks
• Open your content to people who would rather listen
• Pick voices that suit your brand
• Try ElevenLabs or the voices built into many apps

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

Our ElevenLabs voice cloning guide walks through it step by step.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other assistants have voice modes. Use them to think out loud, practice a language, rehearse for interviews, or get help when your hands are full.

• Convert meetings, interviews, and voice notes into text
• Pull out summaries and action items
• Get consent before you record anyone

• Dub your videos into other languages
• Translate conversations as they happen
• Ask a fluent speaker to review important content

• Answer routine customer calls
• Book appointments
• Qualify leads
• Pass complex or upset callers to a person
• Tell callers they are talking to AI

• Keep sentences short
• Spell out numbers and abbreviations the way they should sound
• Use punctuation to set the pauses
• Read the script aloud before you generate

• Never clone or mimic anyone’s voice without permission
• Check local laws, since many places regulate AI voices in calls, ads, and impersonation
• Label AI voices wherever platforms or laws require it

• Remember that scammers can clone a voice from a short clip
• Verify urgent requests by calling back on a number you know
• Agree on a family code word for emergencies
• Think twice before posting long, clear recordings of your voice publicly