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Guide · Voice cloning · Updated 2 November 2026

Clone your voice for free? Here's what's really free.

You can clone your own voice for free, but the free ways are either limited or take some setup. Most online services, ElevenLabs included, put cloning behind a paid plan and keep your recording on their servers. Free open-source models such as Qwen3-TTS and Chatterbox clone a voice on your own computer, through free apps like VoiceStudio or Voicebox, if you have a decent graphics card. Apple's Personal Voice is free on iPhone and Mac, but it only speaks through Live Speech. VoicedByMe clones your voice from twenty seconds, offline, with a free day to try it.

Download for Windows Download for Mac Free for a day · then $30 once

Samples made offline with ready-made voices. All of them are AI-generated.

Online services

Free to try, paid to clone.

Most big voice services let you try their stock voices for free, then charge for making a voice that sounds like you. ElevenLabs, the best known, starts voice cloning on its Starter plan, about $6 a month; its free plan has no cloning and no commercial use.

Some smaller sites advertise free cloning. Before you upload anything, check four things: how much audio you can actually make, whether you can download it, whether you can use it commercially, and what they do with your recording.

Remember that your voice is personal data. Once it's uploaded, it sits on someone else's servers under their terms, and a service can change or close. When PlayHT shut down at the end of 2025, its users reportedly lost their saved audio and their cloned voices.

Free on your computer

Free tools that clone offline.

Apple Personal Voice (iPhone, iPad, Mac)

Free and built in. You read a series of short phrases, and the voice is made on your device. It speaks through Live Speech: you type, and it says it in your voice, even during calls, and in some accessibility apps. It can't read documents or save audio files. Apple made it for people at risk of losing their voice.

Open models

Qwen3-TTS clones from a few seconds of audio and allows commercial use (Apache 2.0). Chatterbox is MIT-licensed, and its audio carries its maker's watermark. F5-TTS sounds excellent, but its trained weights are for non-commercial use only, and so is XTTS-v2.

Free apps that run them

VoiceStudio has normal installers for Windows, Mac and Linux. Voicebox has builds for Mac and Windows. Pinokio installs open-source voice apps in one click, though it builds Python environments behind the scenes. All of them want a recent graphics card or an Apple silicon Mac for good speed, and a few gigabytes of space. How they compare.

Tips

For a clone that sounds like you.

A quiet room

No fan, no air conditioning, no echo. A room with curtains and soft furniture beats a bathroom or an empty office.

Talk normally

Speak the way you want the clone to sound. Don't perform or read in a radio voice.

Same distance throughout

Hold the phone or mic about a hand's width from your mouth, and keep it there.

Short and clean

Twenty to thirty seconds of clean, continuous speech beats a long, noisy recording.

Your main language

Record in the language you'll listen to most: the copy sounds most like you there.

Only your own voice

Or someone else's with their clear permission. Is voice cloning legal?

No setup

Twenty seconds, then use it everywhere.

Record about twenty seconds

Read the passage the app shows you, or use a recording you already have. The app checks the recording first, then makes the clone on your computer.
Use it everywhere

Read any text in your voice, save audio files, make audiobooks, send voice notes without talking, or give your AI agents your voice.
Try it, then pay once

The full app is free for a day. After that it's $30 once, with commercial use included. Every file carries an inaudible watermark and a label saying it's AI-made.

Compared

Ways to clone your voice.

	Price	Where your voice is made	Setup	What you can do with it
VoicedByMe	Free for a day, then $30 once	Your computer	An installer	Read any text, save audio and audiobooks, voice notes
ElevenLabs	From about $6 a month	Its servers	None	Speech, dubbing, many languages
Apple Personal Voice	Free	Your iPhone, iPad or Mac	Built in	Live Speech and some accessibility apps
Open models through VoiceStudio or Voicebox	Free	Your computer	An installer or Python; a graphics card helps	Depends on the app

As of October 2026. Check each app's own site for its current features and prices.

Questions

Can I clone my voice for free?

Yes: with free open-source models such as Qwen3-TTS through free apps like VoiceStudio or Voicebox, which need a decent graphics card, or with Apple's Personal Voice, which only speaks through Live Speech. Most online services charge for cloning.

Is ElevenLabs voice cloning free?

No. ElevenLabs starts voice cloning on its paid Starter plan, about $6 a month; the free plan doesn't include cloning or commercial use.

How do I make an AI voice of myself for free?

Install a free app such as VoiceStudio, record a short, clean clip of yourself, and let an open model like Qwen3-TTS clone it. Or use Apple's Personal Voice on an iPhone or Mac, for Live Speech.

How many seconds of audio do I need?

Open models can work from a few seconds, but twenty to thirty seconds of clean speech gives a much closer copy. VoicedByMe asks for about twenty seconds.

Is it safe to upload my voice?

Your voice is personal data, and an upload sits on someone else's servers under their terms. Cloning on your own computer avoids that: nothing is uploaded.

Can I clone someone else's voice?

Only with their permission. US and EU rules in 2026.

Can I use my cloned voice commercially?

Your own voice is yours, but check the model's licence: Qwen3-TTS allows commercial use, while F5-TTS's weights and XTTS-v2 don't. VoicedByMe's licence includes commercial use.

Can I clone my voice offline?

Yes. Open models and VoicedByMe clone your voice on your own computer, with no internet needed once they're installed.

How much does it cost?

$30 once for the first 50 customers, then $50. No subscription. The full app is free for one day so you can try it first. A license is for one computer.

For Windows 10 and 11, and Macs with Apple silicon

Your voice, made on your own computer.

$30once. Launch price for the first 50 customers, then $50.
One computer. No subscription.

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The full app, free for 24 hours. Purchases aren't refundable, so please try it first.