AI Voice Weekly: AI voice news for creators
AI Voice Weekly is my weekly show about AI voices: voice cloning, text to speech, dubbing and voice agents. Every Thursday I go through what changed that week and what it means if you create with it. I've cloned my own voice in ElevenLabs, HeyGen and Voicebox for this channel, so I know these tools from using them. When something is only a company's claim, I say so, and every episode page links its sources.
Coming up
Deadlines, shutdowns and deals worth knowing about if you work with AI voices. As of November 11, 2026; I update this list with every episode.
- Nov 13Hume shuts down its text-to-speech and EVI voice APIs at 12:01 a.m. Eastern. Hume says any data left in your account is permanently deleted afterwards.
- Nov 16The current ElevenLabs offer ends: the first month of Starter for $1 instead of $6, Creator for $11 instead of $22 (as of November 11).
- Around Nov 23First Black Friday deals. Last year, ElevenLabs and Suno started theirs on the Monday before Black Friday. My Black Friday overview for AI tools tracks what's announced.
- Nov 27Black Friday. Cyber Monday follows on November 30.
- Nov 30HeyGen Voice Turbo stops being free through HeyGen's API. HeyGen's price list shows $4 per million characters for Turbo.
No dates on the list right now. The next episode brings new ones.
My own voice tool tests
Between episodes I test voice tools on my own voice. These are the tests the show builds on.
ElevenLabs v4 Voice Clone: Does Instant Finally Beat Professional?
Part 2 with Eleven v4: two v4 instant clones against my professional clone, blind against my real voice, to play along.
HeyGen vs ElevenLabs Voice Cloning: I Tested the New #1 Claim
Same recording, two clones, a blind test in English and German: is HeyGen Voice really #1?
How to Clone Your Voice in ElevenLabs and HeyGen (2026 Tutorial)
Both clones from the blind test, step by step: HeyGen and ElevenLabs, with screenshots and the fix for the 10 MB limit.
ElevenLabs Voice Cloning Tested: Instant vs Professional on My Own Voice
One of the two methods sounded nothing like me. The other one sounded close enough that I would think twice before telling you it was AI.
I Cloned My Voice With AI Locally for Free
The first part of the Voicebox series sets up the free local app that promises voice cloning, text to speech and dictation without subscriptions or cloud uploads.
I Cloned My Voice Free and Compared It to ElevenLabs
Part 2 takes the setup from Part 1 and tests the thing people actually care about: can a free local voice clone get close to ElevenLabs?
This Free AI Transcribes Everything Locally
I test the dictation and transcription side of Voicebox: importing audio, dictating into real apps, comparing Whisper Base and Turbo, checking German accuracy and showing the hotkey friction on Mac.
Get the next episode
A new episode comes out every Thursday at 6 p.m. CET (12 p.m. ET) on my YouTube channel. If you want to put AI voices or other AI tools to work in your own business, the intro call is free and takes 15 minutes.
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