{"kind":"guides","slug":"voice-banking","path":"/guides/voice-banking","title":"Voice Banking: Save Your Voice for ALS, AAC | SuperClonica","description":"Voice banking explained: how to save your own voice before speech changes, with Apple Personal Voice, Acapela My-Own-Voice or a voice trained from a recording.","h1":"Voice banking: how to save your own voice","intro":"Voice banking means recording your voice while you can still speak clearly, so that a synthetic copy of it can speak for you later through a phone, a computer or an AAC device. People facing ALS, MND, throat cancer surgery or other conditions that affect speech often do it, but anyone can.\n\nThis guide compares three ways to do it, from what each provider says about its own service. Start as early as you can, and talk to your speech and language therapist, who can help you choose and set it up.","sections":[{"heading":"Why start early","paragraphs":["A banked voice can only sound as good as the recordings it is made from. Record while your voice is still the one you want to keep, in a quiet room, with the same microphone each time, and keep a backup of the raw recordings in a safe place: they are worth keeping even if the tools change."]},{"heading":"Apple Personal Voice","paragraphs":["On iPhone, iPad and Mac, Personal Voice makes a synthesized voice that sounds like you. You find it in Settings, Accessibility, Personal Voice, and read a series of sentences aloud; you can stop and resume later, and the speech is processed on the device. Apple lists iOS or iPadOS 17 or later, iPhone 12 or later and Macs with Apple silicon, in supported languages. The voice works with Live Speech, Read & Speak, VoiceOver and AAC apps that support it."]},{"heading":"Acapela My-Own-Voice","paragraphs":["Acapela’s My-Own-Voice service is made for people at risk of losing the ability to speak. According to Acapela, it needs only about 10 minutes of recordings and is available in 26 languages, and Acapela lists AAC makers such as Tobii Dynavox and Saltillo among its partners; check its pricing and how the voice reaches your device before you start."]},{"heading":"A voice trained from a short recording","paragraphs":["In the SuperClonica studio you can train a voice from a single clean recording of 5 to 10 seconds, on a computer with an NVIDIA graphics card, then type any text and hear it in that voice with the free engine, offline: superclonica --text \"I love you all. Thank you for being here.\" --voice my-voice.json --lang en --output message.wav. A short sample captures the colour of the voice rather than every habit of how you speak, so treat it as a complement to full voice banking, for example for recorded messages to family, and keep your longer recordings too."]},{"heading":"Use your voice fairly and safely","paragraphs":["Your voice is yours: SuperClonica trains voices only from recordings you have the right to use, and a family member can help with the setup but should not make a voice of you without your consent. A banked voice is a communication aid, not a medical treatment; your care team remains the right place for advice on speech and swallowing."]}],"faq":[{"question":"What is voice banking?","answer":"Recording your voice while you can still speak clearly, so that a synthetic copy of it can speak for you later on a phone, computer or AAC device."},{"question":"Is there a free voice banking option?","answer":"Apple Personal Voice is built into iPhone 12 or later with iOS 17 or later. The SuperClonica engine is free; training a voice of your own needs a computer with an NVIDIA graphics card."},{"question":"How much do I need to record?","answer":"For Apple Personal Voice you read a series of sentences and can pause and resume; Acapela says My-Own-Voice needs about 10 minutes of recordings; a SuperClonica voice starts from a 5 to 10 second clean recording."},{"question":"Can I use my banked voice in an AAC app?","answer":"Apple Personal Voice works with Live Speech and AAC apps that support it; for other services, ask the provider and your speech and language therapist which devices they support."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse voices","install":"Install the free engine"},"sources":[{"label":"Apple: Create a Personal Voice","url":"https://support.apple.com/en-us/104993"},{"label":"Acapela My-Own-Voice","url":"https://mov.acapela-group.com/"},{"label":"SuperClonica engine on PyPI","url":"https://pypi.org/project/superclonica-cpu/"}],"published":"2026-10-31","updated":"2026-10-31","pages":[{"slug":"text-to-speech-for-nonverbal-people","path":"/guides/text-to-speech-for-nonverbal-people","h1":"Text to speech for mute and nonverbal people"},{"slug":"text-to-speech-api-docker","path":"/guides/text-to-speech-api-docker","h1":"Self-hosted text-to-speech API in Docker"},{"slug":"acapela-alternative","path":"/guides/acapela-alternative","h1":"Acapela TTS alternative: voice files without a licence deal"},{"slug":"custom-siri-voice","path":"/guides/custom-siri-voice","h1":"Custom Siri voice: what works on iPhone"},{"slug":"train-tts-voice","path":"/guides/train-tts-voice","h1":"Train your own TTS voice on your NVIDIA GPU"},{"slug":"waze-custom-voice","path":"/guides/waze-custom-voice","h1":"Waze custom voice: drive with directions in any voice"},{"slug":"bark-tortoise-tts-alternative","path":"/guides/bark-tortoise-tts-alternative","h1":"An alternative to Bark and Tortoise TTS that runs on a CPU"},{"slug":"wellsaid-labs-alternative","path":"/guides/wellsaid-labs-alternative","h1":"A WellSaid Labs alternative that runs on your own servers"},{"slug":"power-automate-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/power-automate-text-to-speech","h1":"Text to speech in Power Automate: an HTTP action and an MP3"},{"slug":"apple-books-read-aloud","path":"/guides/apple-books-read-aloud","h1":"Apple Books read aloud: let your iPhone or Mac read to you"},{"slug":"text-to-speech-in-meetings","path":"/guides/text-to-speech-in-meetings","h1":"Text to speech in Zoom, Teams and Google Meet"},{"slug":"text-to-speech-for-blind-people","path":"/guides/text-to-speech-for-blind-people","h1":"Text to speech for blind and visually impaired people"}],"related":[{"slug":"text-to-speech","path":"/text-to-speech","h1":"Text-to-speech that runs on your own computer"},{"slug":"supertonic","path":"/compare/supertonic","h1":"Supertonic vs SuperClonica: same model, faster and cleaner"},{"slug":"fish-audio","path":"/compare/fish-audio","h1":"Fish Audio and Fish Speech vs SuperClonica"},{"slug":"omnivoice","path":"/compare/omnivoice","h1":"OmniVoice vs SuperClonica: more languages or more speed"},{"slug":"qwen3-tts","path":"/compare/qwen3-tts","h1":"Qwen3-TTS vs SuperClonica for local text-to-speech"},{"slug":"voxcpm","path":"/compare/voxcpm","h1":"VoxCPM 2 vs SuperClonica: studio sound or CPU speed"},{"slug":"f5-tts","path":"/compare/f5-tts","h1":"F5-TTS vs SuperClonica: zero-shot cloning or fast CPU speech"},{"slug":"elevenlabs","path":"/compare/elevenlabs","h1":"An offline alternative to ElevenLabs"},{"slug":"kokoro","path":"/compare/kokoro","h1":"Kokoro TTS vs SuperClonica: two small models for local speech"},{"slug":"piper","path":"/compare/piper","h1":"Piper TTS vs SuperClonica: tiny devices or custom voices"},{"slug":"xtts","path":"/compare/xtts","h1":"Coqui XTTS-v2 vs SuperClonica: a Coqui TTS alternative"},{"slug":"chatterbox","path":"/compare/chatterbox","h1":"Chatterbox TTS vs SuperClonica: instant cloning or a trained voice file"}]}