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CLOVA Dubbing alternative: Korean text to speech offline

CLOVA Dubbing from Naver is one of the most popular ways to add an AI voice to videos in Korea: type a script, pick a voice and download the dubbing. Many creators start with the free version and later look for clearer terms, an offline workflow or the same voice in other languages.

This guide sums up what Naver’s own documentation says about the free and paid versions, and shows how SuperClonica voices Korean scripts with natural voices, free to try online and offline on your computer.

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What CLOVA Dubbing offers

Terms and prices change, so check Naver’s current pages before you publish commercial content.

  • Naver’s free CLOVA Dubbing makes voices for videos, with a dubbing editor and sound effects.
  • According to Naver Cloud’s guide, voices made with the free version must credit the source and are limited in usage and commercial use.
  • The paid CLOVA Dubbing on NAVER Cloud Platform allows commercial use without attribution.
  • The free version’s celebrity voices and Voice Maker are not available in the paid Cloud Platform version.

Hear a Korean voice free

Open the page of any voice, type a Korean sentence of 30 to 100 characters, choose Korean and press Voice it. In a few seconds you can listen and download the recording, free and with no account.

Where SuperClonica differs

There are no celebrity voices; voices of public figures in the catalog are labeled as parody.

  • The engine runs offline on your computer, with no character limit.
  • The ten stock voices of Supertonic 3 are free under the OpenRAIL-M license, commercial use included.
  • One voice speaks 31 languages, so the English version of a Korean video can keep the same voice.
  • You can train a voice from your own recording in the studio, or order one on the exchange.

A whole Korean script offline

Install the free engine with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu, save your Korean script in script.txt and run superclonica --text-file script.txt --voice F2 --lang ko --normalize --output script.mp3. Long texts are split at natural pauses and joined into one file, and --normalize keeps a steady level for video. Write numbers the way they should be read, Sino-Korean or native, since the engine reads digits as plain numbers.

Choosing honestly

If you need Naver’s celebrity voices or an online editor with a video timeline, CLOVA Dubbing may suit you better. If you want unlimited offline voicing, clear free terms for the stock voices and the same voice across languages, try SuperClonica. Either way, say that the voice is AI-generated where viewers would care.