# Voice Studio

> Clone a voice from a recording or design one from a description.

Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/media/voice-cloning
Language: en

The Voice Studio is where you make voices that aren't in the preset list. There are two ways in — **clone** a voice from a short audio sample, or **design** one from a written description — and both end the same way: a reusable voice in your **My voices** library that you can put on any character.

## Opening the Voice Studio \[#opening-the-voice-studio]

Go to **Chat Settings → Voice & Input → Voice Studio** and tap **Open Voice Studio** (the wand icon). Your library is account-wide, so it looks the same from every chat.

Inside you'll find your voice-clone credit balance, the two create actions — **Clone a voice** and **Design a voice** — and **My voices**.

> **In a group chat the studio is read-only.** You can open it and create
> voices, but the **Use** action won't assign one. Assign voices to group
> members from the per-member rows under **Chat Settings → Voice & Input →
> Voice** instead.

## Cloning from a sample \[#cloning-from-a-sample]

### Open **Clone a voice** and name it \[#open-clone-a-voice-and-name-it]

Names are required and capped at 60 characters.

### Pick a provider \[#pick-a-provider]

**MiMo** — **Free (limited time)**. **MiniMax** — **1 credit** from your voice-clone balance.

### Provide a sample \[#provide-a-sample]

**Record** captures one with your microphone; **Upload** takes an audio file. Aim for 10–30 seconds of clear speech.

### Create the clone \[#create-the-clone]

Tap **Create clone**. The voice is ready in the same request — there is no queue to wait through.

### What the sample has to be \[#what-the-sample-has-to-be]

| Rule                     | Value                                                                       |
| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Minimum length           | **5 seconds**, enforced on both recordings and uploads                      |
| Recommended length       | 10–30 seconds                                                               |
| In-browser recording cap | **60 seconds** — recording stops itself at the limit                        |
| File size                | No limit                                                                    |
| Format                   | Anything the browser can read; everything is converted to WAV before upload |
| Speech check             | Applied to **recordings only**                                              |

A recording that is mostly silence is rejected with *"We couldn't detect clear speech."* An uploaded file skips that check entirely — it is only length-checked — so a quiet or noisy upload is accepted and produces a poor clone. Record clean audio either way: one speaker, no music, no room echo.

If the microphone is blocked, the studio says so and points you at **Upload**.

## Designing from a description \[#designing-from-a-description]

No recording, no sample. Open **Design a voice**, name it, and write a **Voice description** of 1 to 1,000 characters — for example, *"A warm, gentle young woman with a slight British accent"* — then tap **Create voice**.

Voice design runs on **MiMo** only and is free for a limited time. MiniMax cannot design voices.

## What happens after you submit \[#what-happens-after-you-submit]

Both providers return a finished voice inside the same request, so a new voice appears as **Ready** straight away. A short preview clip is generated with it — tap play on any **Ready** voice to hear it. If something goes wrong the voice shows **Failed** with a short reason, and you can delete it and try again.

| Provider    | Clone | Design | Cost to create                    |
| ----------- | ----- | ------ | --------------------------------- |
| **MiMo**    | Yes   | Yes    | Free during the current promotion |
| **MiniMax** | Yes   | No     | 1 voice-clone credit              |

Nothing limits how many voices you keep — only your credit balance limits how many MiniMax clones you can make.

## Putting a voice on a character \[#putting-a-voice-on-a-character]

For your own listening, open the voice picker (**Chat Settings → Voice & Input → Voice**), switch to the **My voices** tab and select it. That choice is yours alone.

To make it the voice *everyone* hears, open the character in the editor, go to **General Settings → Voice Selection** and pick the custom voice. Reverie asks you to confirm first:

> **Binding a cloned voice publishes how it sounds.** Anyone who chats with
> that character hears the cloned voice by default. They can switch to
> another voice, and they cannot add yours to their own library — but they
> can hear and preview it for as long as the character is published.

## Voice-clone credits \[#voice-clone-credits]

Voice-clone credits are a separate balance from chat credits: granted plus purchased, minus used. The Voice Studio shows the breakdown at the top.

| Source            | Amount               |
| ----------------- | -------------------- |
| Pro, annual       | 1 per yearly renewal |
| Premium, annual   | 2 per yearly renewal |
| Ultimate, annual  | 3 per yearly renewal |
| Monthly plans     | None                 |
| One-time purchase | **$5** for one clone |

> **Only annual plans grant clones.** A monthly subscription at any tier
> grants zero voice-clone credits. Buy the one-time clone instead, or use
> MiMo while it is free.

Creating a voice is what spends a credit. Playing it afterwards is billed as ordinary text-to-speech at that provider's rate — see [Reading messages aloud](https://reverie.im/en/docs/media/reading-messages-aloud).

## Consent and your samples \[#consent-and-your-samples]

Above the create button the studio states: *"By continuing you confirm you have the right to use this voice."* Clone voices you own or have explicit permission to use.

Your sample is stored in a private bucket and kept until you delete the voice. Deleting a voice removes it from your library and cleans up the stored sample and the copy held by the provider.

> **Why the studio exists.** The thinking behind cloning and designing
> instead of picking from a list is in
> [The voice was always the hardest part](https://reverie.im/en/blog/make-a-voice-not-just-pick-one).

## Related \[#related]

* [Reading messages aloud](https://reverie.im/en/docs/media/reading-messages-aloud) — engines, rates and the voice picker
* [Voice calls](https://reverie.im/en/docs/media/voice-calls) — where a custom voice gets the most use
* [Subscriptions](https://reverie.im/en/docs/billing/subscriptions) — which plans grant clone credits
* [Publishing a character](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/publishing) — what changes when others can use your character