The best AI voice cloning tools, tested and ranked

Descript came first of five with 4 out of 5. Four of our five readings were usable on the first try, our blind judges rated its clone 3.9 out of 5, and we found problems in only 9 of 50 pronunciation and audio checks. Each usable reading took 12.0 minutes, and it was the only tool to meet all 4 of our commercial-use checks, which gave it the top rights score of 4.5. Our Descript review covers the editor in full.

Descript isn't a cloning tool first. It's a video and audio editor that transcribes your recording and lets you cut and rearrange it by editing the text. Voice clones and stock AI voices sit alongside tools like filler-word removal, Studio Sound cleanup, captions, translation and an AI assistant called Underlord. That makes it handy if you clone your own voice to fix or extend recordings you're already editing.

Descript says its production AI models use no user data, and you can switch off the setting that shares data for its research. Users are less happy than our results suggest: it has 2.6 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 292 reviews (checked November 2026), with complaints about AI features failing and using up credits, and the desktop app crashing.

ElevenLabs came second with 4 out of 5, scoring 4 on every part. Our blind judges gave it the highest rating in the test, 4.1 out of 5, and it was the fastest, at 10.2 minutes per usable reading. Four of five readings were usable first time and problems showed up in just 9 of 50 checks. It met 3 of our 4 commercial-use checks, which is what kept it just behind Descript. Read our ElevenLabs review.

ElevenLabs is a voice AI platform best known for lifelike text-to-speech. Instant cloning from short samples starts on the Starter plan, and Professional cloning, trained on longer recordings, starts on Creator. It also offers dubbing, transcription, sound effects, music and voice agents, with a web studio, phone apps and an API. It has more than 17,500 voices in its library.

The free plan doesn't include cloning or a commercial licence. Its privacy policy lets it train its models on your inputs and outputs unless you opt out, and the opt-out only applies from then on. Users praise the realism but are split: 2.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 1,219 reviews (checked November 2026), with complaints about unexpected charges and hard-to-reach support.

Fish Audio came third with 2.5 out of 5. Only 3 of our 5 readings were usable first time, our blind judges rated the clone 2.1 out of 5, and we found problems in 23 of 50 checks, the most in the test. Each usable reading took 15.0 minutes, and it met 3 of our 4 commercial-use checks. Our Fish Audio review has the full story.

Fish Audio clones a voice from a clip of roughly 10 to 15 seconds and lets you steer tone and sounds with emotion tags written into the script. It grew out of the open-source Fish Speech project and offers a web app, an API and more than 2 million community voices. Its free plan includes instant cloning, with 8,000 credits a month.

Its terms say little about consent for instant clones, so the responsibility sits with you, and they allow your content to be used to train its models with no opt-out stated. Its own pages also disagree on whether the free plan allows commercial use. On Trustpilot it has 2.1 out of 5 from 31 reviews (checked November 2026), mostly about support and refunds.

Respeecher came fourth with 2.5 out of 5. Three of our five readings were usable first time, the judges rated it 2.0 out of 5, and we found problems in 21 of 50 checks. Each usable reading took 17.8 minutes. It met 3 of our 4 commercial-use checks, and control and editing was its best part at 3. Our Respeecher review explains why.

Respeecher works mainly speech to speech: it turns one person's performance into another voice while keeping the acting, timing and emotion. It built its name on film, TV and game work, requires the voice owner's signed permission for every replication, and offers a Pro Tools plugin. It also sells a self-serve Voice Marketplace with more than 40 licensed voices, and custom voice projects with its own audio engineers.

It isn't built for quick self-serve clones, and the terms are strict: fees are non-refundable, credits expire a year after purchase, and contracts need 60 days' written notice to stop renewing. We found no user ratings to report.

Altered Studio came last of five with 2 out of 5. Our blind judges rated its readings 1.9 out of 5, the lowest score in the test, and only 3 of 5 were usable first time. We found problems in 21 of 50 checks, and each usable reading took 19.9 minutes, the slowest here. It met 3 of our 4 commercial-use checks. See our Altered Studio review.

Altered Studio changes a recorded voice into another while keeping the original tempo and emotion, and adds cloning, text-to-speech and cleanup tools. Rapid cloning works from 5 to 40 seconds of audio, while local cloning runs on your own computer from 2 minutes to an hour of audio, with no per-voice charge. A separate Real-Time Pro app changes your voice live.

Local cloning needs an NVIDIA RTX graphics card with at least 12 GB. On the plus side, its terms require the speaker's consent and ban impersonating anyone, living or dead. There's a free plan and a 7-day trial with no card needed, but paid plans are listed only billed yearly, and we found no user ratings to report.