Voice Cloning Consent: What You Can and Cannot Do

Voice cloning is the most powerful tool in the studio — and the only one with hard lines around it. Here's where they are, so you can use it confidently.

What you can do

• Clone your own voice for any of your content — voiceovers, audiobooks, courses, commercial included
• Clone with written permission: a host authorizing their network, an actor authorizing a production — keep the paperwork
• Design voices from text: described-into-existence voices correspond to no real person, carry no consent burden, and suit multi-character stories

What you must never do

• Clone celebrities or public figures — for any purpose, including "just for fun"
• Clone colleagues, friends or family without written consent
• Use a cloned voice to impersonate someone — criminal in many jurisdictions

The consequences go beyond account suspension: voices are biometric data, covered by PIPL in China, GDPR in Europe, and a growing set of deepfake statutes in US states. The simplest rule: treat someone's voice like their passport.

Practical tips

1. Producing for clients? Have the client record their own samples, with scope of use written into the contract
2. A consent letter should cover: purpose, duration, commercial use, redistribution
3. When in doubt, use voice design instead — generated from scratch, always safe

The product enforces this too: the cloning flow carries a consent notice, and violations end accounts. The rules protect the cloned — and every legitimate user's business along with them.