https://www.altered.ai/ I am not a native English speaker. So I didn't really understand what I would get for a monthly payment? Can I use the actors' voices (6+50) for a month or only 60 minutes? Can someone explain what I will get in the end?

Altered AI is very expensive. You should give Voice AI a try. It is relatively inexpensive. A you will get quick results. Some of the voices are quite astonishing

Does anyone have any experience with Altered AI https://www.altered.ai/ I've been thinking about turning my Wattpad novel into something like an audiobook, and I want to do all of the voicework myself. From what I hear, Altered AI is the best software on the market. It's incredibly expensive, but the voices sound really human. I just wanted to know if anyone here has tried it long term (several months). I'm still a little ways off from taking that plunge, but I want to do my research first.

I recorded the dialogue for this 11 min long episode. I have done all the voices, 12 total. Voice AI is amazingly easy to use. The limitation I see is that it will not follow the emotion in your voice exactly as delivered. However, this is an amazing technology. Really incredible. 
Here is a video with  a sample of voices all made by the same person. 

I wasn't trying to admonish you - just to try and keep the ideas separate.

Because these two kinds of software, the ones that generate voice from text, versus the ones that take voice and "change" it, are both very different and have different applications.  That isn't to say there isn't overlap - clearly folks with no other alternatives (perhaps they don't speak the language they want, or can't find voice actors appropriate) will use the text to voice in the same manner as using an actual actor's voice that is modified, but the trend now for AI modification of real people is hitting hard and offers nearly all of us very viable alternatives for telling our stories.

And as someone else pointed out, it really is all about the story.  I'd rather see an interesting story told by even a robotic artificially generated text to speech than I would a bad story done with professional actors.  (There are plenty of those already on television :>).  We all, as hobbyists here, try and do the best we can with the tools at our disposal.  But I also think it's a huge mistake to SETTLE for artificial voices when there are TONS of people who can do voices AND who WANT to do them, even for free (I don't really know of any town, city or dwelling in the entire world where there aren't people who enjoy acting in any capacity - if you have trouble finding them I can help you, at least here in the United States.  Hell, even in our adult retirement community we have not one but THREE different groups of folks desperate to act and perform.  Getting them to do voices is easy and that's only about 800 people total, of whom at least 700 have no desire whatsoever.  Those of you living anywhere else are missing out on the literally thousands of folks who want to act for you).

What is interesting to me is being able to alter the voices of ten or so folks here who have superb acting abilities - using AI to make their voices even more distinct would be a pretty amazing too.  That was what this thread started out to be and let's hope that it continues to inspire others to post their own experiences with this.  Perhaps those of you wanting text to voice could start your own thread.

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My apologies if I veered off-track. I thought the info I shared is still on topic and would be useful to some. But I agree it's not about "Voice.ai voice changer". eep... :ermm: I am not actually supposed to be looking at this thread and posting if not for the damned Black Friday Sale all over the Internet! :laugh: Searching for good deals on these software tools is maddening. :Whistling:

Anyhow, to the moderator's, kindly delete my unrelated posts. Thank you! :D

Oops, sorry for the confusion. I meant Voicemaker.in and NOT Voicemaker.ai. :pinch::crying::doze: I've tried using it's TTS feature to generate an audio voice file I used as source voice for some of the so-called "AI-powered" software to see how it would sound like. :P

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Nicely summed up Auto. I feel that ultimately "technology" leaves no one safe, since the mighty $ will, (and always has), empowered the minority to leverage returns to their own advantage.
Then there's a largish number of 'wanna-be's' trying to play the same game and become king pin. Competition is a two edged sword with many casualties, yet we all (mostly) play the same game to a larger or lesser extent I think.
But the only asset that's truly yours (that no-one can take or supplant with tech and Mike will agree with this) is 'story'. Your very own unique story. Changes in technology, I think, just means different ways of presenting/displaying your story, so story will always survive over time. A bit off topic - but just my 2c

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Sigh - I wish folks in this thread would stop pushing AI GENERATED VOICES - this thread was all about using AI to alter existing voices.

Robotic voices (and, folks, that is what they are and what they sound like to native language speakers - they could no more replace actors than my Roomba could replace a maid) are fine for folks who can't speak English (or whatever the language they are generated are).  But they AREN'T the tech that folks started talking here and it's about as silly to bring them up here as it would be for me to mention using video and filtering it so it looked like animation to replace rendering in iClone.

Let's try and keep this on track - we want something that takes a voice (a real, HUMAN voice) and alters it with AI processing so it sounds like someone else.  I can promise you no matter what that dev says the Magic thingee does not do that, it's just a filter (and a bad one at that).  And there are lots of things that generate AI voices that sound passable - but can't act.  Again, it would be like me expecting to tell Roomba "Now please go make the bed."

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I've also tried using the free version of Voicemaker.ai in the past and the outputted quality is excellent even in my native language. I've played around importing the audio file generated from Voicemaker.ai into MorphVox and the produced quality is acceptable for me especially for use of non-human characters. I haven't tried cleaning up the audio though. Maybe I have to play around with the software a bit to recognize more if it's weaknesses. So far, what I paid for it and what I got is ok. :) 

EDIT: Oops, sorry for the confusion. I meant Voicemaker.in and NOT Voicemaker.ai. :pinch: