I Cloned My Own Voice for an Audiobook. My Mom Couldn't Tell.

The clone is good. Too good, which is the part that should worry you.

ElevenLabs cloned my voice from about ten minutes of clean reading. The result was unsettlingly close.

I used it to narrate a short book I'd written, because I didn't want to sit in a booth for six hours.

The pacing is better than my real reading, which is either a win or a sign something's off.

I kept a disclaimer in the description. A voice that isn't yours deserves one.

For a personal message I'd still record myself. The clone reads as fake the moment it's intimate.

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