Use Multiple Voices in a Project

In this tutorial you will set up a project with multiple voices and learn how to assign them using the default voice, per-segment overrides, and inline voice spans. By the end, you will be able to produce multi-narrator content like audiobooks with distinct character voices, podcast scripts with separate host and guest voices, or any dialogue-heavy material.

We will use a concrete example throughout: a short novel excerpt with a narrator and two characters.

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What You Will Need

• Voice Creator Pro installed and running
• A document to import (EPUB, PDF, DOCX, or plain text), or text to paste in
• At least two voices prepared in your Library (we will cover this in the next section)

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Step 1: Prepare Your Voices in the Lab

Before opening a project, get your voices ready. You can use any combination of voice types:

For our example novel, we will prepare three voices:

1. Narrator - Open Lab and use the Clone or TTS tab to clone your own voice or pick a built-in voice.
2. Elena (the protagonist) - In Lab, switch to the Design tab and describe the voice you want, for example: "young woman, warm, slightly raspy, conversational." Generate until you are happy, then save.
3. Marcus (the antagonist) - Open Voice Search from the sidebar, find a deep male voice you like, and click Import to Clone Library. This adds the voice to your Clone tab library.

Keep cloned and community voices between 3 and 10 seconds. Longer reference audio does not improve quality and makes generation take much longer.

Save each voice to your Library with a clear name. This makes them easy to find when assigning voices in the project.

For a full walkthrough on cloning, see the Clone a Voice tutorial.

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Step 2: Import Your Document

1. Open the Projects section from the sidebar.
2. Create a new project and import your document (EPUB, PDF, DOCX, or plain text). You can also paste text directly with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on macOS).
3. Voice Creator Pro will split the text into sections (chapters) and segments (paragraphs) automatically.

For our example, imagine the imported text looks like this:

Chapter 3: The Meeting

Elena pushed through the heavy oak doors. The room smelled of old paper and dust.

"You're late," Marcus said, not looking up from the file in his hands.

"Traffic," Elena replied, dropping her bag on the nearest chair. "What did you find?"

Marcus slid the folder across the table. "Everything. Names, dates, the whole trail."

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Step 3: Set the Default Voice

Set a default voice for the project. This voice is used for every segment across all sections unless you override it.

For our example, set the default voice to Narrator. Since narration makes up the majority of most novel chapters, this saves you from having to assign a voice to every paragraph individually.

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Step 4: Assign Character Voices with Inline Voice Spans

Most dialogue segments also contain narration (e.g., "Marcus said, not looking up..."), so you will use inline voice spans to assign character voices to just the quoted speech while keeping the narration in the default Narrator voice.

Take this segment: "You're late," Marcus said, not looking up from the file in his hands.

1. Click the segment to select it. It will use the default voice (Narrator).
2. Highlight just the quoted dialogue: "You're late,"
3. Assign the Marcus voice to the highlighted span.

The narration ("Marcus said, not looking up from the file in his hands.") stays in the Narrator voice, while the quoted speech plays in Marcus's voice.

Do the same for other dialogue in the chapter:

• In "Traffic," Elena replied, dropping her bag on the nearest chair. "What did you find?" highlight "Traffic," and "What did you find?" and assign the Elena voice.
• In Marcus slid the folder across the table. "Everything. Names, dates, the whole trail." highlight "Everything. Names, dates, the whole trail." and assign the Marcus voice.

This is especially powerful for novels where dialogue and narration are woven together in the same paragraph. You do not need to split the segment manually; just highlight and assign.

Tip: If a segment is entirely one character with no surrounding narration, you can also override the voice for the whole segment instead of highlighting.

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Step 5: Preview Key Segments

Before generating the full project, preview a few critical segments to make sure each voice sounds right in context:

1. Pick one segment for each voice (Narrator, Elena, Marcus).
2. Pick at least one segment where you used an inline voice span.
3. Click the play button on each segment to generate and hear a preview.

If a voice does not sound right, go back to the Lab, tweak the voice, and re-save it. The project will pick up the updated voice automatically.

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Step 6: Generate and Export

Once you are happy with the previews:

1. Click Generate to produce audio for all segments. Voice Creator Pro processes each segment with its assigned voice.
2. When generation finishes, listen through the project to spot-check the results.
3. Export to your preferred format (MP3, WAV, FLAC, or M4B for audiobooks with chapter markers).

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Example Recap

Here is how the voice assignments break down for our example chapter:

Three voices, one chapter, zero studio time.

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Tips

• Prepare all voices before you start the project. Saving voices to your Library in the Lab first means you will not have to leave the project to create them mid-workflow.
• Choose your default voice strategically. Set the most common voice (usually the narrator) as the default to minimize the number of overrides you need.
• Preview before bulk generation. Generating a few key segments first catches voice mismatches early and saves time.
• Mix voice types freely. A cloned narrator voice paired with designed character voices works great. There is no requirement to stick to one voice source.
• Keep inline spans clean. When highlighting text for an inline voice span, include the full quoted sentence. Cutting mid-word can produce unnatural audio.

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Next Steps

• Voice Assignment reference - Full details on section, segment, and inline voice controls
• Segments reference - Per-segment settings, splitting, merging, and selection-level overrides
• Projects overview - The full workflow from import to export
• Clone a Voice tutorial - Step-by-step guide to creating cloned voices
• Voice Search - Browse and import community voices