🎤 Voice Training: Teaching The AI To Write In Your Own Voice

Nothing is written from a blank prompt. Every time the AI writes, it is handed a voice profile, the skeleton for that kind of email, and real emails from your library to read first. The Voice training tab is where all of that is taught.

Where to find it:

Open AiX Email and click the Voice training tab. The first card, Why this screen exists, explains the idea in three short paragraphs and says which sign off and name every email is signed with, with a Change them link to Settings.

The two halves of a voice:

• Measured: counted in code from the emails you pick. Words per email, words a sentence, paragraphs, how many have a P.S., links, subject characters, and the words you actually reach for. Web addresses, merge tags and [BRACKET] placeholders are left out of the word counts. This half works with no AI key.
• Described: with a key connected, the AI reads the same emails and writes a style card. The voice card shows its one line summary, The running order it learned and Habits it spotted.

A voice card:

• the voice name, with an in use pill on the one in use, and its description
• Trained on N emails on the date, using the model that wrote the style card
• six measurements
• the summary, The running order it learned and Habits it spotted
• Words you actually reach for, up to 16 of them
• buttons: Use this voice (on the voices not in use), Train it, Edit the style card, Rename, and Delete once a second voice exists

The plugin ships with one voice, House voice. Whichever voice is in use, the email is signed with the name and sign off line from Your details on the Settings tab.

Training a voice:

1. Press Train it on the voice card.
2. The window Train on which emails? lists every email in your library, grouped by purpose. Style references and starred emails are ticked for you.
3. Tick the emails that sound the way you want to sound. Fewer and better beats more. One training reads up to 60.
4. Add anything the voice must always do in Anything extra this voice must always do.
5. Press Train it. A message says Reading them. This one takes a few seconds. When it is done the page reloads and the card shows what it learned.

With no AI key the measurements are refreshed and the existing style card is kept.

Pick emails you wrote yourself:

The starter templates, and any email with two or more [CAPITAL] placeholders, are fill in the blanks scaffolds and are never shown to the writer as examples of a voice. Emails imported from files whose names start STYLE-REFERENCE, and any email you mark with the Mark as style reference toggle in the editor, are handed to the writer first, in full. Starred emails come next.

Editing the style card by hand:

Edit the style card opens every line the writer is told about the voice:

• In one line
• Greeting
• Sign off, one line each
• Subject lines
• Preheader
• Rhythm
• The running order, one beat per line
• Habits that identify this writer, one per line
• Always, comma separated
• Never, comma separated
• Anything extra this voice must always do

Press Save the card. What you typed is what the writer is told until the next training, which rewrites the described half.

More than one voice:

On the A new voice card press Create and train one. The window adds Name it and What it is for above the email list. Tick the emails and press Train it. Paste emails in first takes you to Import and export, which is how you train a voice on somebody else's swipes.

• Use this voice makes a voice the one in use.
• Write with AI lets you choose a voice for each email or sequence.
• Rename opens Name and What it is for, then Save the name.
• Delete asks Delete this voice? The emails it learned from are untouched. Only the profile goes.

Training packs, one per purpose:

A thank you email and a bundle upgrade are not the same shape, so each of the eleven writing purposes learns its own skeleton from your own emails of that kind: Thank you and delivery, Welcome, Onboarding follow up, Lifecycle, Bundle upgrade, Launch, Update, Promotion, Launch sequence, Affiliate swipe and Apology.

Each row shows how many emails of that kind are in the library and a one line summary. A trained pill marks a trained pack, and a pill such as 1 example warns when there are fewer than two to learn from. With AI ready, press Train, or Retrain later. A window shows how many of your own emails it learned from, the summary, The skeleton, Subject shapes that fit and Every one of these includes. With no emails of that kind yet, the button is Write the first one, which opens Write with AI on that purpose.

A worked example:

Sam trains House voice on five emails: two style references, The loaf that failed and What 100 loaves taught me, and three starred favourites. The card now reads A patient home baker who admits the flat loaves, counts everything, and always ends by asking you to reply, with 103 words per email and a P.S. in every one. Sam adds Always end with an invitation to reply to Anything extra.

Then Sam creates a second voice, Affiliate sender, trained on two swipes and written about Sam in the third person, for emails partners send.

Tips:

• Retrain after you add a batch of new emails you are proud of.
• Train the Thank you and delivery pack first. It is the email every buyer opens.
• Use Show me exactly what it will be told on Write with AI to see the voice in the brief, word for word.