Voice

Voice in Imagine turns text into speech on Cue OS. Pick a ready-made voice, describe a new one, or clone a recording you own or have permission to use. Saved voices work on the web and in Cue CLI, so Cue can speak with them too.

What you can do

• Turn a script into spoken audio for a demo, a video, or a message.
• Hear a short reply as it is generated with Realtime.
• Design a voice from a description and preview it.
• Clone a voice from a clean recording you have permission to use.
• Reuse, check, and delete the voices you saved.

On the web

1. Open Generate → Voice.
2. Choose a template: Narration, Realtime, or Voice design. Or type in What should this voice say?
3. Choose Standard for a finished clip, or Realtime to hear the audio as it is generated.
4. Pick a voice from the list: the system voice (Cherry), a preset, or one of your own.
5. Select the play button (Generate voice) to hear it.
6. To make your own voice, go to Custom voices:
   • Design: enter a Voice name, describe the voice, add the text for its preview, and select Design voice.
   • Clone: enter a Voice name, add a clean WAV, MP3, or MP4 recording, tick I have permission to clone this voice., and select Clone voice.
7. Your saved voices appear under Your voices. The bin button deletes one.

On iPhone and Android

The iPhone and Android apps are coming; store review is pending. You can use Cue OS in your phone browser now.

With Cue CLI

1. Set up Cue CLI and sign in. List the presets and your own voices:

   cue voice list

2. Speak text with a voice from the list, by its name or ID:

   cue speak "Welcome to the garden tour" --voice-id <voice-name> -o welcome.wav

3. Design a voice and save a short preview:

   cue voice design "Warm, clear garden guide" --name garden_guide --preview-text "Welcome to the garden tour" -o preview.wav

4. Clone a recording of about 20 seconds (WAV, MP3, MP4, or M4A). --consent-confirmed states that you own the voice or have permission to clone it:

   cue voice clone ./sample.wav --name my_voice --consent-confirmed

5. Check or delete a voice you own:

   cue voice get garden_guide
   cue voice delete garden_guide

Cue CLI has related commands for sound. cue transcribe meeting.mp3 turns the speech in an audio or video file into text. cue music "acoustic guitar" makes a short music clip. cue say "Task done" speaks aloud with your Mac's built-in voices, offline, and does not use Cue voices.

Limits today

• Voice creation is offered but has not yet been checked end to end. Listen to each result before you use it.
• Realtime speaks with the system voice. Presets and the voices you design or clone work in Standard only.
• Clone only a voice you own or have permission to use.
• Generating speech uses credits from your account.
• cue voice call places phone calls and needs its own phone-service setup on your computer. It is not part of Imagine.

Related

Cue CLI on cueos.ai · Imagine · Video · cue voice reference · cue speak reference