🎤 Set Up Your Own Cloned Voice (Windows And Mac)

Your own voice can narrate every slide. The free ResultsAiX Voice Engine app runs on your own computer, learns your voice from a short recording, and narrates your videos in it. Your recording stays on your computer and there is no per word cost. This guide takes you from installing the app to your first video in your own voice.

What you need:

• A Windows PC or a Mac. Apple Silicon and Intel Macs are both supported.
• About 8 GB of free disk space for the app and its voice model.
• A quiet room and a microphone. The one built into a laptop is fine.
• ResultsAiX Video open in your web browser on the same computer as the app.

Where to find the download:

• In ResultsAiX Video, open the Training tab. Section 3 has a Download For Windows (Free) button and a Download For Mac (Free) button.
• The note under the Voice options on Create Video also has Download for Windows and Download for Mac links while the app is closed.

Install the app on Windows:

1. Click Download For Windows (Free).
2. Run the installer. The first time, Windows may show a blue box saying Windows protected your PC. Click More info, then Run anyway. This only happens once.
3. Open ResultsAiX Voice Engine from the Start menu.

Install the app on a Mac:

1. Click Download For Mac (Free). It opens the Mac page, with one download for Apple Silicon Macs (M1, M2, M3, M4) and one for Intel Macs. To check yours, click the Apple menu, choose About This Mac and read the Chip line.
2. Open the downloaded file and drag ResultsAiX Voice Engine into your Applications folder.
3. The first time you open it, right-click the app and choose Open. If macOS asks again, open System Settings, then Privacy and Security, and click Open Anyway. This only happens once.

Clone your voice:

1. In the app, click Create Voice and give it a name, for example your first name.
2. Choose Record and speak naturally for 10 to 15 seconds. Finish your last sentence, pause for a second, then stop the recording. You can also upload a clip of you speaking, such as a voice memo.
3. Fill in the Reference Text box with the exact words you said, every word up to the last one. The easy way is to click Transcribe, then read what it typed and correct anything it misheard.
4. Save the voice.

Test it in the app first:

1. Type a short line in the app, such as this is a test of my voice.
2. Pick your voice and generate it.
3. Play it back.

The very first time, the app downloads its voice model, 3 to 4.5 GB. On a typical home connection that takes 10 to 20 minutes, once.

Narrate your video in your own voice:

1. Keep the Voice Engine app open.
2. Open Create Video in ResultsAiX Video. If it was already open, the app connects by itself within a few seconds.
3. Open the Voice menu. Your voice is listed under My Voices.
4. Pick it, choose a Narration Language if you write in another language, and click Generate Voiceover.

As soon as you pick your voice, the builder asks the app to get it ready, so the first slide starts sooner. After the first slide, the app works through the rest by itself. Slides that are already narrated are kept, so if you stop part way, open the video again and click Generate Voiceover to carry on.

How fast will it be?

A Windows PC with an NVIDIA graphics card, or an Apple Silicon Mac, narrates a sentence in a few seconds. Other computers use the processor instead and take longer per sentence. Let your test line finish before you judge it.

A real example:

Sam, the owner of Yoursite Studio, records 12 seconds in a quiet office: welcome to the studio, here is how to book your first class. She clicks Transcribe, fixes one word, and saves the voice as Sam (my voice). Back in the builder, Sam (my voice) shows under My Voices, and the Studio Welcome Explainer is narrated in her own voice.

Tips for a good voice:

• Record somewhere quiet, with no music and nobody else talking.
• Speak the way you want your videos to sound, at a natural pace.
• Aim for 10 to 15 seconds. Very short clips give the app too little to learn from.
• End on a full sentence and pause before you stop. A recording that stops in the middle of a word can make that word appear at the start of your lines.
• Not happy with the result? Delete the voice in the app and create it again with a better recording.

Two app settings you may notice:

You do not need to change any settings in the app. These are the two people ask about most.

• Keep server running when app closes is optional. With it on, narration still works after you close the app window. After you update the app, open it once so it replaces the older copy.
• Allow network access can stay off. It only lets other devices on your network use the engine, and ResultsAiX Video talks to it on the same computer.

Already using the earlier Mac version called Voicebox?

Quit it first, install the new app over it, then move Voicebox to the Bin. Your voices are kept.

If you see one of these:

• Your voice is not in the Voice menu: make sure the app is open. On newer versions of Chrome, click the icon beside the website address, open Site settings, set Local network access to Allow, then reload Create Video.
• Every line starts with an extra word from your recording: update the Voice Engine to the latest version. If it still happens, record a new 10 to 15 second sample that ends on a full sentence, check the Reference Text has every word, and create the voice again.
• The builder shows a message from the Voice Engine: it is the app's own reason in its own words and usually says exactly what to do.
• A clip took longer than it should: close the app, open it again, then click Generate Voiceover. Finished slides are kept.
• It worked before and now does not connect: open the app, which replaces an older copy still running in the background, then reload Create Video. If needed, restart your computer.

Tips:

• Record the way you want your videos to sound, at a natural pace.
• You do not need to change any settings in the app. Keep server running when app closes is optional.
• On Windows, when a newer version of the app is out, a note under the Voice menu offers Download the update. Your cloned voices are kept.