AI Text to Speech with Your Own Voice
Upload a short authorized voice sample, save it as a voice, then generate natural speech in 9 languages. Pay only for what you use — no subscription.
What does this AI text-to-speech tool do?
Upload a short authorized voice sample, then turn text into natural-sounding speech in that voice. VocalDock uses Fun-CosyVoice 3.0 for zero-shot voice cloning, so you can create a reusable voice without a long training process.
Zero-shot voice cloning, no training time
Upload 5-30 seconds of clear speech and your voice is ready to use immediately. No 10-minute training samples, no waiting hours for a model — the cloned voice is available the moment you save it.
9 languages, 18 Chinese dialects
Generate speech in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian. Plus 18 Chinese regional dialects including Cantonese, Sichuanese, Shanghainese. Your single cloned voice works across all of them.
Use your own voice, a family member's voice, or a friend's
Unlike readers that limit you to a fixed voice library, VocalDock lets you bring an authorized voice sample. Read articles in your own voice, or use a family member's voice when you have their clear permission.
Pay per character — no subscription
15 credits per 1000 characters, with a 5-credit minimum per task to cover GPU startup cost. No monthly fee; free starter credits let you test the workflow before buying more.
Natural prosody and pacing
CosyVoice 3 is designed for more natural rhythm than older robotic TTS systems, with better pauses, emphasis, and sentence-level pacing.
Privacy: voice samples are yours to delete anytime
Your uploaded reference audio stays in your account. Delete a voice and we remove its reference within 24 hours. We never use customer voices to train our models.
What can you do with text-to-speech?
Common workflows our users run after cloning their first voice:
Read articles in your own voice (commuting / studying)
Paste any web article, blog post, or PDF text — hear it read in your voice. Great for reviewing your own writing (you catch errors faster when you hear yourself), or just enjoying long articles on a walk.
Generate podcast intros and outros
Record one solid voice sample, then generate consistent intro/outro audio for every episode without re-recording. Updates are a text edit away.
Fix a single sentence in a recording
Recorded a podcast or video voiceover and noticed a slipped word? Don't re-record the whole take — clone your voice from the good portion, generate the corrected sentence, drop it in.
Multilingual content from one English-only voice
Cross-lingual mode lets your English-cloned voice speak Japanese, Chinese, or Spanish text — useful for YouTubers expanding to multiple language tracks without hiring native voice actors.
Memorial / sentimental audio with a loved one's voice
With clear permission from the voice owner, create audio of a family member reading favorite poems, bedtime stories, or personal messages. We keep this workflow consent-first.
Text to speech FAQ
How is this different from ElevenLabs?
Three differences. (1) VocalDock focuses on pay-as-you-go use instead of forcing a subscription. (2) Your TTS voices live alongside other VocalDock audio tools such as vocal separation, denoising, and conversion. (3) The workflow is built around saved voice assets, so you can reuse an authorized sample without uploading it every time.
How long does the reference audio need to be?
5 to 30 seconds is the sweet spot. We use the first 28 seconds and cap at 20 MB. Clear speech with no background music or noise gives the best voice clones — uploading a noisy recording will produce a noisier-sounding clone.
Can I clone a celebrity's voice or a fictional character?
Only voices you have permission to use. Don't upload audio of public figures, voice actors, or copyrighted characters without authorization. Our content guidelines (and most jurisdictions' right-of-publicity laws) prohibit creating voice clones of real people without consent.
What languages does this support?
9 languages out of the box (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian) plus 18 Chinese regional dialects (including Cantonese, Sichuanese, Shanghainese). The same cloned voice works across all of them — record once in English, read text in Japanese.
How much does it cost?
15 credits per 1000 characters, minimum 5 credits per task. A short article of about 3000 characters costs 45 credits. New users get free starter credits for testing.
How long does it take to generate?
Usually 10-30 seconds for the first request (cold start, model loads into GPU), then 5-10 seconds for follow-ups (warm container). Longer texts take proportionally longer because the model generates one sentence at a time.
Can I use the output commercially?
Yes for content you create with your own voice or with explicit permission from the voice owner. The audio file itself is yours to use however you want — podcasts, videos, ads, audiobooks. No royalty on the generated audio.
What happens to my voice samples if I delete the voice?
Deletion is immediate from the UI; the underlying R2 audio is removed within 24 hours by background cleanup. We never use customer-uploaded reference audio to train or improve our models.