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Create your own Avatar Clones and Voice Clones

With Pictory’s new custom avatar and voice cloning features, you can create a digital version of yourself to narrate and present your videos. This guide will walk you through the process of creating, managing, and sharing your personal clones.

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Written by Jade S

Eligibility

Custom Avatars (CA) and Instant Voice Clones (IVC) are exclusive features available to users on Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans.


1. Creating Your Custom Avatar Clone

A custom avatar is a digital clone of your video appearance and voice. When you create an avatar, your voice becomes the default voice for that avatar.

Steps to Create:

  1. Head to the Avatars menu and click on "Create new" and follow instructions

  2. Upload Training Footage: You must provide high-quality video footage of yourself. (Record for a minimum of 2 minutes for best results.)

  3. Upload Consent Footage: To ensure security and authenticity, you are required to upload a video of yourself providing explicit consent for the cloning.

  4. Process: Once uploaded, Pictory will create your avatar and associated voice clone. These are available for use in your Avatars / Audio Menu's very similar to existing stock avatars and voices.

  5. Please note, for more realistic voice cloning you can create a professional voice clone at elevenlabs.io and share the voice id with [email protected] to be added to your audio library.

  6. If needed, you can pan your face within the avatar to center it.


2. Creating Your Instant Voice Clone

If you only need a digital version of your voice without a video avatar, you can create an Instant Voice Clone.

Steps to Create:

  1. Head to the Audio Menu and click on "Create new" and follow instructions

  2. Upload Training Voice: Provide a clear audio sample of your voice.

  3. Consent: Similar to avatar cloning, you must provide consent before the voice clone can be generated.

  4. Result: Your voice will be added to your voice menu for use in any project.

  5. Please note, for more realistic voice cloning you can create a professional voice clone at elevenlabs.io and share the voice id with [email protected] to be added to your audio library.


Managing Your Clones

  • Account Limits: There is a limit of 5 Custom Avatars and 5 Instant Voice Clones per account.

  • Deletion: Deleting a Custom Avatar will also automatically delete the voice clone associated with it.

    • An IVC created as part of an avatar cannot be deleted directly from the audio menu; you must delete the corresponding avatar instead.

    • Deleting a clone will remove it from all projects where it is currently applied, though exported videos are not affected. This action is permanent and cannot be undone.

  • Team Sharing: Clones are available in the workspace where they were created by default.

    • You can share your clones with your team. Once shared, they will appear in the team's avatar and audio menus with a "shared asset" indicator.

    • Sharing a Project or a Brand Kit automatically shares Avatar clones or voice Clones with the respective team members.

    • Sharing can be revoked by the owner at any time.


Usage and Credits

  • Creation Cost: Creating a Custom Avatar or Voice Clone is free.

  • Usage Cost: Using your Custom Avatar to generate a video costs 35 Credits per 30 seconds

  • Using your Voice Clone counts against your regular ElevenLabs minutes.

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