Text to speech in your own voice, on your own PC
Type or paste text and Mimicore reads it aloud in a voice you cloned, in 23 languages. Save it as a WAV file for a video, or play it straight into a call or a stream. It runs locally, so there are no per-minute fees.
Why use your own voice for text to speech?
Standard text to speech voices are clear but anonymous. They are fine for reading a notification, but they do not sound like you, and viewers can usually tell within a sentence. If you make videos, tutorials, podcasts, courses or game content, a voice that is recognisably yours is part of your brand, and typing a script is often far faster than recording, listening back and re-recording after every slip.
Mimicore's Speak page combines the two. You create a voice of your own with about 15 to 20 seconds of natural speech, see clone your voice on your own PC, and from then on you can type any text and hear it in that voice. Because the generation happens on your computer, a long script does not cost per character, there is no upload queue, and your voice sample and your script stay on your machine.
How the Speak page works
Open Speak, type or paste your text (or load a .txt file), pick a voice and a language, and choose what to do with it. Speak now plays the result on your speakers, the virtual microphone or both, so the people on your call or stream hear it, and a copy is saved. Save to file renders a WAV file you can drop into a video editor. Two sliders, Emotion and Variation, let you push the delivery from calm and even to more lively and varied, and they are worth experimenting with on a short sentence before you render a long script.
Playback starts after the first sentence, which takes about a second, and longer texts are rendered sentence by sentence, so you do not wait for the whole script before you hear anything. For the final export of a long piece, the Ultra model tier is the most polished option but is slower, so choose it when quality matters more than speed.
23 languages from one voice
Speak supports Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Swahili, Turkish and Chinese. A voice created from your English speech can read text in any of them while keeping something recognisable of your tone. That is useful for localising a tutorial, narrating a video for an audience that does not speak your language, or just hearing how a sentence might sound.
Be realistic about quality across languages. Accent and rhythm are strongest in languages with a lot of training material, and a clone will often carry a trace of the accent of the language you recorded in. For anything important, listen to a short test in the target language and ask a native speaker to check pronunciation of names and technical terms. If you need a whole video translated and re-voiced, the AI video dubbing feature does the transcription, translation and speech in your cloned voice and exports both audio and subtitles.
Make your first narration in four steps
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Create a voice: Voices & effects › + Instant voice, record 15 to 20 seconds of natural speech in a quiet room and press Create voice.
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Open Speak, paste your text or load a .txt file, then pick your voice and the language of the text.
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Try a sentence with Speak now and adjust Emotion and Variation until the delivery fits.
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Press Save to file for a WAV to use in your editor, or send the speech into Discord, Zoom or OBS through the virtual microphone.
What you get
Your cloned voice
Use your own instant voice, a gallery voice or a mixed voice. Trained voices speak through the default voice converted into theirs.
23 languages
From Arabic to Chinese, read text in the language of your audience.
Emotion, Variation and Speed
Sliders control how lively and how varied the delivery is, and the Speed slider runs from half to double speed without changing the pitch.
Play or export
Speak into a call through the virtual microphone, or save a WAV file for your video editor.
Local and private
Generation runs on your PC, so there are no per-character fees and your scripts and voice stay on it. The one exception is the optional AI script polish in Audiobook Studio, which sends the script to our server and an AI provider when you are signed in; the built-in cleanup stays local.
Audiobook Studio and projects
Load a .txt file, or import a PDF, Word file or scanned pages in Audiobook Studio, split a book into chapters and render them. Scripts are saved on your PC as projects, and an interrupted render resumes from the last verified chapter.
On the Free plan, Speak clips are limited to about 3 minutes (roughly 2,700 characters), and you can clone one voice of your own. Studio has no limit and unlimited cloning.
What people use it for
Creators use their own voice for tutorials and explainers, for fixing a mistake in a finished video without recording the whole sentence again, and for voice-overs on days when they are ill or the room is noisy. Course authors use it to keep an updated lesson consistent with the older ones. Game developers and writers use gallery or mixed voices to hear their dialogue read aloud before hiring actors. People who find speaking aloud tiring or difficult use it to talk in calls by typing, with a voice that is theirs rather than a generic one.
A related trick is to type a line, hear it, and then speak the same line yourself through the live voice changer to compare. That is a quick way to understand how your cloned voice differs from your natural one.
Tips for natural-sounding results
Write for the ear rather than the eye. Short sentences read more naturally than long ones with several clauses, and punctuation controls pauses, so use commas and full stops where you would breathe. Spell out numbers, abbreviations and unusual names the way you want them said: writing "twenty twenty-six" is safer than a bare number if the pronunciation matters. Break long scripts into paragraphs and listen to each, as a short chunk that sounds off is easier to fix than a half-hour render.
The quality of the voice depends on the quality of the sample, so if the result sounds muffled or noisy, re-record the sample in a quieter room, closer to the microphone, with natural continuous speech rather than a list of words. A trained RVC voice gives a closer likeness for live conversion, see RVC for beginners, while instant voices are the quickest route to narration.
Plans, limits and responsible use
Speak is available on the Free plan with clips of about 3 minutes, which is enough for most scripts and videos. Removing the clip limit on Speak, file conversion and dubbing (2 minutes on Free), and unlimited voice cloning, are part of the Studio plan, with monthly, annual and lifetime options. New accounts start with 30 free Studio days and no card is needed. The price for your region is on the home page.
Only use voices you own or have permission to use, and do not present generated speech as a recording of a real person who did not say it. If you publish AI-voiced content, saying so is good practice and some platforms require it. Mimicore's acceptable use policy covers what is not allowed.
Questions
Can Mimicore read text in my own voice?
Yes. Create an instant voice from about 15 to 20 seconds of your speech, then use it on the Speak page to read any text. Cloning is part of the Studio plan, and new accounts start with 30 free Studio days.
Which languages does text to speech support?
23 languages: Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Swahili, Turkish and Chinese.
Can I save the speech as an audio file?
Yes. Save to file renders a WAV you can use in any video or audio editor. Speak now plays it on your speakers and the virtual microphone.
Is there a length limit?
On the Free plan, Speak clips are limited to about 3 minutes (roughly 2,700 characters). The Studio plan has no limit.
Does my text or voice get uploaded?
No. Speech is generated on your PC. Only sign-in and plan checks use the internet.
Does it work with a trained RVC voice?
Trained voices speak through the default voice, converted into the trained voice with the pitch matched automatically. For narration, instant voices are the most direct option.
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