S01E01: I Cloned My Voice With 8 AI Engines — Here's What Won
ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Coqui and 5 more voice cloning engines tested head to head. Audio demos, cost breakdown, and blind A/B test results.
Show Notes
What We Tested
Eight voice cloning engines evaluated across quality, cost, training data requirements, and multilingual support:
- ElevenLabs
- Cartesia
- Coqui / XTTS
- LMNT
- Fish Audio
- StyleTTS2
- OpenAI
- Deepgram
Key Findings
- The open-source option (Coqui XTTS) needed just 5 seconds of audio
- The winner (Cartesia) needed 54 minutes but produced a clone that fooled colleagues in blind tests
- Cost ranged from free (open source) to $99/month (enterprise)
- Multilingual support varied wildly — only 2 engines handled German well
Timestamps
- 00:00 — Introduction & credentials
- 02:07 — AI voice clone bridge (Cartesia demo)
- 02:59 — NotebookLM deep dive begins
- 42:00 — Key takeaways
- 45:26 — Outro & next episode preview
Links
Transcript coming soon. Until then, the companion article covers everything we talked about in this episode.
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