Add your own voice

Custom Voice adds a voice from an ElevenLabs share link to your voice choices. You then pick it for a narrator or a character like any other voice.

Good to know:

• This adds an existing voice from the ElevenLabs library. It does not clone your own voice from a recording.
• Added voices join a shared catalog, so other users can see them too. Do not use it for a private voice.
• If you want your own recording used as spoken, choose From audio in Video Story instead. See Use voices, audio, and captions.

Check your allowance

1. Open a voice picker that has Custom Voice. Two of them: the narrator voice of a universe you own (on its Your universe page, open Settings, then Narration and audio), and the Voice setting on a saved character.
2. The Custom Voice panel shows how many voices you have added and how many your plan allows.
3. If your plan does not include imports, or you are at the limit, the panel shows the next step.

Add the voice

1. Open the ElevenLabs Voice Library.
2. Find the voice and copy its Share link. A voice name or the library homepage is not enough.
3. Back in LongStories, open Custom Voice.
4. Paste the link into ElevenLabs voice link.
5. Select Add voice and wait for the result.

Then pick the voice in the picker for the narrator or the character you want. Adding a voice does not assign it to anyone yet.

Read the result

• Voice added! The voice is saved.
• This voice is already available. The voice was already in the catalog. It does not use one of your import slots.
• The link was rejected. Copy a fresh Share link from the voice's page. Check that it points to the voice, not to the library.
• The voice is unavailable or has extra fees. Some shared voices have extra usage fees and cannot be added. Choose another voice.
• Saved, but the list did not refresh. Refresh the picker before you try again. The import worked.

Check the voice in a video

• Listen to the preview when there is one. It does not test your full script.
• Check names and pronunciation in the generated video.
• For a recurring character, save the voice on the character. Then select that character in each new story. See Use universes and consistent characters.