Help and costs

Three short videos show every step, from your photo to a finished talking video. Watch them in order.

Ask how to do something in Froyla CloneVoice

Answers come from the help files for this section. If they do not cover your question, write to Elisdacom@gmail.com.

1. Add an avatar. Open My avatars and upload a clear photo of one face looking at the camera.
2. Open the Studio. Type what the avatar should say, choose the language, the voice, the avatar and the video option.
3. Check the price in the panel on the right. It is shown before anything is charged.
4. Press Render video. The price is taken from your credit. A video usually takes a few minutes; the progress bar shows each stage.
5. Watch and download it in the Studio when it finishes, or later in My videos.

The menu button at the top right of every page opens Studio, My voices, My avatars, My videos, Help and costs, and Safety.

• Use a clear, well-lit photo of one face, looking at the camera. A photo with no face, or with a second person clearly visible, is refused (a small face far in the background is fine).
• You confirm that the person in the photo agrees to it. Use your own photo, or the photo of someone who has said yes.
• Photos are private to your account. Deleting an avatar removes it. Uploading avatars is free.

• AI voices (AI Female, AI Male) are ready to use on every account. Choose a language and the Studio uses the voice service that speaks it, so there is nothing else to pick. They cost nothing extra: you pay only for the speech and the video.
• Your own cloned voice is for accounts that have bought credit. Free accounts cannot clone a voice.
• On My voices you can rename a voice or delete it. To delete, type the voice's name to confirm; the copy at the voice service is deleted too, and its monthly fee stops.
• A voice marked "No Indian languages" was made with the standard service and cannot speak Hindi, Malayalam or the other Indian languages. If you choose one of those languages in the Studio, an AI voice speaks it instead and the page tells you.

1. Open My voices and press the new voice button.
2. Give the voice a name and answer the question "Will you need this voice in an Indian language, now or later?" (see Languages).
3. Choose the language you will record in and tick the consent box. Your browser asks once to use the microphone, on these pages only.
4. Read the paragraphs aloud until you have at least 60 seconds of speech. Each recording is checked and the page tells you what to fix: too quiet, too noisy, clipped or too fast.
5. Read the verification phrase aloud (it contains a five-digit code). This proves it is your own voice, so nobody can train a voice from someone else's recording.
6. Press Train. The training price is taken once. Training usually takes a minute or two, then the voice shows Ready.

Tips: record in a quiet room, keep the same distance from the microphone, and speak at your normal speed.

• The Studio offers 22 languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Russian, Dutch and Polish, and the Indian languages Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Kannada.
• The Indian languages are spoken by our extended voice service. A cloned voice speaks the languages of the service that made it.
• When you clone a voice, answer Yes to the Indian-language question if you may ever want Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi or Kannada. The voice is then made with the extended service and the page shows its monthly fee. Answer No for the standard service. This cannot be changed later; you would train a new voice.
• For your own voice in Malayalam or another Indian language, answer Yes, choose that language when you create the voice, and read your recording in it.

• The Studio speaks your script exactly as typed. English text with Malayalam selected will sound wrong.
• To use English text: type it, choose the language, then press "Translate my English into ..." under the script box. The translation replaces the text in the box.
• The button shows the price before you press it. It is a machine translation: read it and fix anything before you render. "Back to my English" restores what you typed.
• Up to 900 characters and 12 sentences can be translated at a time. Translated text is often longer than English; if it goes over the limit for the video option, shorten it or choose Precise lip-sync.

• Expressive (ByteDance OmniHuman): natural head, face and hand movement that follows the voice. Up to 29 seconds of speech.
• Precise lip-sync (sync-3): very accurate lip movement that keeps the look of the photo. Allows longer scripts.
• Presenter (gestures) (ByteDance OmniHuman 1.5): you describe how the person should move in the box that appears, for example "a teacher giving a lecture to a class, explaining with both hands". It follows gestures, posture and mood; the person stays in place, so walking around is not possible. Use a photo from the waist up with the hands visible. Up to 59 seconds of speech.
• The character limit under the script box follows the option you choose. The Studio counts about 15 characters per second of speech and keeps a little room spare, so Expressive allows about 390 characters.

• My videos lists every talking video you made, with its status. Saving and downloading are free.
• Download links last a day; open the page again to get a fresh one.
• A video that is still being made keeps going if you close the page. Come back to My videos to see it.

Froyla CloneVoice uses the same credit as Froyla Reels. You add credit with a one-time payment (a top-up) whenever you like. There is no subscription for this section, and it never charges your card by itself. Everything below is taken from your credit, and your balance is shown in the studio.

Price = video seconds x the rate of the video option + script characters x the voice rate.

• The length is estimated from your script: 15 characters count as one second, with a minimum of 2 seconds.
• You see the total in the studio before you press Render. It is charged once, when you press Render, from that estimate.
• You pay for the estimate, not for the length of the finished video. A fast or slow voice does not change the price.
• A translation is a separate charge, taken when you press Translate, and is not part of this total.

• The first months of keeping a voice are included in the training price.
• After that there is a small monthly fee for each cloned voice, taken from your credit. It is taken in advance for 30 days and is not refunded if you delete the voice during that time. It pays for the voice service that stores your voice, and for keeping it from being deleted when it is not used.
• AI voices (the ready-made ones) have no fee, because you do not own a copy of them.
• If your credit is too low when a month is due, the voice expires. It is deleted at the voice service, so we stop paying for it. We keep your recordings for 30 days. In that time you can re-activate the voice (one price) or delete it. After 30 days the recordings are removed and the voice cannot be brought back.
• We show the next charge date under every voice on My voices. Deleting a voice stops any further charges.

• If a video fails, the full amount comes back to your credit and the page says so.
• If voice training fails, the training price comes back.
• If a translation fails, nothing is charged.
• A script that our safety check blocks is refused before anything is charged.

Every Froyla CloneVoice video carries a note inside the file that says it is AI-generated, and usually a small label on the picture. Please do not hide or remove these marks. Disclose that content was made with a talking avatar wherever the law or the platform you post on requires it.

• Only use your own photo and voice, or those of people who have agreed.
• Scripts are checked before anything is charged; a script that breaks the safety rules is refused.
• Your voice recordings and photos are private to your account. Deleting a voice or an avatar removes it.
• The full rules are on the Safety page.

"This voice service is unavailable right now."

The voice service for that voice is switched off or not set up. Try an AI voice, or write to Elisdacom@gmail.com.

"That voice expired."

There was not enough credit when its monthly fee was due. Open My voices and press Re-activate (your recordings are kept for 30 days), or delete it.

Why did my voice change to an AI voice?

Your cloned voice cannot speak the language you chose (it shows "No Indian languages"), so an AI voice that can speaks it instead. To use your own voice in that language, clone a new voice and answer Yes to the Indian-language question.

Can I type in English and get a video in Malayalam?

Yes: choose Malayalam, then press Translate before you render. See Translating your script.

Can I download my cloned voice?

No. A cloned voice lives at the voice service and cannot be downloaded. You can make as many videos with it as you like.

Can I upload my own audio instead of typing a script?

Not yet.

Am I signed in on both video.froyla.com and clonevoice.froyla.com?

They are the same account and the same credit, but you sign in on each address separately.

The price changed.

Prices can change. The Studio always shows the exact price before you render, and this page shows the current amounts.