{"kind":"guides","slug":"voicemeeter-soundboard","path":"/guides/voicemeeter-soundboard","title":"Voicemeeter Soundboard for Discord Clips | SuperClonica","description":"Route a soundboard through Voicemeeter Banana so Discord hears your sounds and your voice: virtual inputs, bus B1, Voicemeeter Out B1 and spoken clips.","h1":"Voicemeeter soundboard: play voice clips into Discord","intro":"Voicemeeter Banana is a free (donationware) virtual audio mixer for Windows. It lets you mix your microphone with sounds from any app, so friends in Discord or a game hear both your voice and your soundboard. Fill the soundboard with spoken lines, such as a game announcer, a cartoon character or your own trained voice, and it becomes a voice board.\n\nThis guide follows the VB-Audio manual for the routing and shows how to make the clips with the free SuperClonica engine.","sections":[{"heading":"How Voicemeeter’s virtual devices work","paragraphs":["According to the VB-Audio manual, Voicemeeter installs virtual audio devices: the playback devices, such as Voicemeeter Input and Voicemeeter Aux Input, are its virtual inputs, and the recording devices are fed by the B buses; the one fed by bus B1 is called Voicemeeter Out B1. Banana has three hardware inputs, two virtual inputs and buses A1 to A3, B1 and B2, and every input strip can be sent to any bus."]},{"heading":"Route the soundboard and your mic","paragraphs":["Set your soundboard app to play into Voicemeeter Input (or Voicemeeter Aux Input). In Voicemeeter, select your microphone on a hardware input strip. Send both the mic strip and the virtual input strip to B1, and to A1 if you want to hear the sounds yourself on your headphones. Then in Discord, open the voice settings and choose Voicemeeter Out B1 as the input device. The manual’s installation steps end with exactly that: reboot, then check the device selection in apps such as Discord, Teams or Zoom."]},{"heading":"No soundboard app? Use the tape deck","paragraphs":["Banana has an integrated player and recorder, the tape deck, which can play WAV, MP3, M4A and other files with one click. It is handy for a single clip or a quick test; for many clips on hotkeys, a soundboard app or a Stream Deck is easier."]},{"heading":"Make the spoken clips","paragraphs":["Hear voices free on their pages with a line of 30 to 100 characters, no account needed, and download the recording. For a full board, buy a voice once, download its file and install the free engine with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu, then voice each line: superclonica --text \"Objective secured!\" --voice voice.json --lang en --normalize --output objective.wav. The engine writes WAV, which Voicemeeter and soundboard apps open directly, and --normalize keeps every clip at the same loudness so none blasts your friends."]},{"heading":"Keep it fair","paragraphs":["Turn down a clip on its strip if it is louder than your voice, and keep Discord’s noise suppression in mind: it is made to keep your voice and can cut other sounds. Character voices in the catalog are fan-made, for fan works, parody and personal use; never use a voice to pretend to be a real person."]}],"faq":[{"question":"How do I use Voicemeeter as a soundboard in Discord?","answer":"Play the soundboard into Voicemeeter Input, send that strip and your mic strip to B1, and choose Voicemeeter Out B1 as the input device in Discord."},{"question":"Is Voicemeeter Banana free?","answer":"VB-Audio calls it donationware: free to use with all functions except optional features, and you pay what you want if you like it."},{"question":"Can Voicemeeter play audio files by itself?","answer":"Yes. Banana’s integrated tape deck plays WAV, MP3, M4A and other files."},{"question":"Where do I get voice clips for the soundboard?","answer":"Voice your lines in any catalog voice or your own trained voice with SuperClonica and save them as WAV files."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse game character voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine","voices":"game-characters"},"sources":[{"label":"VB-Audio: Voicemeeter Banana","url":"https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm"},{"label":"Voicemeeter Banana User Manual (PDF)","url":"https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/VoicemeeterBanana_UserManual.pdf"},{"label":"SuperClonica engine on PyPI","url":"https://pypi.org/project/superclonica-cpu/"}],"published":"2026-10-31","updated":"2026-10-31","pages":[{"slug":"stream-deck-soundboard","path":"/guides/stream-deck-soundboard","h1":"Stream Deck soundboard with your own voice lines"},{"slug":"discord-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/discord-text-to-speech","h1":"Discord text to speech with custom AI voices"},{"slug":"voicemod-alternative","path":"/guides/voicemod-alternative","h1":"Voicemod alternative: type instead of talk"},{"slug":"choicer-voicer-voice-pack","path":"/guides/choicer-voicer-voice-pack","h1":"Make a Choicer Voicer voice pack with AI character voices"},{"slug":"text-to-speech-in-meetings","path":"/guides/text-to-speech-in-meetings","h1":"Text to speech in Zoom, Teams and Google Meet"},{"slug":"discord-soundboard-sounds","path":"/guides/discord-soundboard-sounds","h1":"Discord soundboard: add your own sounds and voice clips"},{"slug":"vrchat-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/vrchat-text-to-speech","h1":"VRChat text to speech for mute and non-verbal players"},{"slug":"tesla-boombox-custom-sounds","path":"/guides/tesla-boombox-custom-sounds","h1":"Tesla Boombox custom sounds: make your car talk"},{"slug":"stream-alert-voices","path":"/guides/stream-alert-voices","h1":"Stream alert voices: character voices for follows, subs and donations"},{"slug":"custom-alexa-voice","path":"/guides/custom-alexa-voice","h1":"Custom Alexa voice: what works on Echo"},{"slug":"discord-tts-bot-python","path":"/guides/discord-tts-bot-python","h1":"A Discord TTS bot in Python that reads chat aloud in a voice channel"},{"slug":"discord-js-tts-bot","path":"/guides/discord-js-tts-bot","h1":"A discord.js TTS bot that streams AI voices into a voice channel"}],"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"}]}