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Notes on voice, from the people building it
What an AI voiceover actually costs in rupees, why Hindi text-to-speech deletes your English words, how voice-cloning fraud works and what stops it. Written from running the product, including the parts that are inconvenient for us.
Latest
India
Pricing and buying
- Nine questions to ask before choosing an AI voice generatorEvery voice tool's landing page says natural, realistic and lifelike. None of that is a specification. These are the nine questions whose answers actually differ.8 min read
- What "free" actually means on an AI voice generatorEvery voice tool has a free tier and no two mean the same thing by it. Here are the four limits to look for, and which one is the trap.6 min read
- What an AI voiceover actually costs in IndiaPer-minute, per-character, per-credit — voice pricing is quoted in three incompatible units, which is not an accident. Here is the arithmetic in rupees, including where ours stops making sense.8 min read
How it works
- Cross-lingual voice cloning, and what it costs youYes, you can clone from an English clip and generate Spanish. The question nobody answers is what that actually sounds like to a Spanish speaker.6 min read
- Why Hindi text to speech skips your English wordsYou generate a Hindi script with "WhatsApp" in it, play it back, and the word is simply not there. This is not a bug in your text. It is a predictable consequence of how Indian-language speech models are trained.6 min read
Craft
Safety
Blog or guides?
Two different things, kept apart deliberately. The guides are evergreen reference — how cloning works, how to record a clip that passes, what the law requires — and they are maintained to stay true. Posts here are dated, take a position, and are allowed to be about a moment: pricing as it stands now, what changed in Indian-language speech this year, what a fraud wave means for anyone who publishes their voice.
Neither one is a “top 10 tools” list, and neither ever will be.
Hear it rather than read about it
Thirty seconds of generated audio in your own language settles more than any article can.
