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Do you need permission to clone someone's voice?
Last checked 2026-08-14
In short
Yes. Cloning an identifiable person without documented consent exposes you to personality and publicity claims and, increasingly, to specific AI statutes - and it is prohibited here. Naadly requires the speaker to record a consent statement aloud before a clone is created, and keeps that record with a hash of the reference clip as evidence.
What documented consent looks like
- The speaker says aloud, in the recording, that they consent to a voice model being made from their voice and where it may be used.
- The consent is stored with a hash of the reference clip, so it is tied to the specific recording rather than to a tick box.
- It names who is doing the cloning, because "I agreed to something once" is not evidence.
- It survives deletion of the workspace - deliberately, since it protects the person who was cloned, not the account.
An imitation of a public figure is not made lawful by a disclaimer, and a permission you were given verbally by someone else is not consent. This is a summary of how the product behaves, not legal advice for your jurisdiction.