How to Clone Your Voice: Step-by-Step Tutorial

TLDRLearn how to clone your voice or someone else's using a free AI tool called Tortoise Text-to-Speech. This video provides a step-by-step process with tips and tricks for the best results.

Key insights

🔥Clone your voice or someone else's using Tortoise Text-to-Speech, a free AI tool.

⚡️Provide voice samples to train the tool and let it clone the voice for you.

Use audacity or a similar tool to record voice segments for better quality clones.

💡Avoid audio clips with background music, noise, reverb, or distortion for better results.

🎯Experiment with different settings and tones to customize the cloned voice.

Q&A

What is Tortoise Text-to-Speech?

Tortoise Text-to-Speech is an open-source tool available on GitHub that allows you to clone voices using AI technology.

How do I clone my voice?

To clone your voice, you need to provide voice samples of yourself and use Tortoise Text-to-Speech to train the tool and generate the cloned voice.

Can I clone someone else's voice?

Yes, you can clone someone else's voice by providing voice samples of the person you want to clone and using Tortoise Text-to-Speech to generate the cloned voice.

How many voice samples do I need for cloning?

You need at least three 10-second voice segments, but including more data points can improve the quality of the clone.

What should I avoid when providing voice samples?

Avoid audio clips with background music, noise, reverb, or excessive stuttering/stammering for better cloning results.

Timestamped Summary

00:00Introduction to cloning your voice using Tortoise Text-to-Speech.

01:32Instructions for gathering audio clips for voice cloning.

03:50Choosing the right settings for voice recording and sampling.

05:20Running the Tortoise Text-to-Speech notebook on Google Colab.

06:50Generating the cloned voice and evaluating the results.