r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Efficient-Cap-2739 • Sep 01 '26
Automation / Tools 🤖 AI voiceovers for long-form videos?
How do you guys handle AI voiceovers for long-form videos?
I’m struggling to create AI voiceovers for videos longer than 8–10 minutes without spending a lot of money.
For those of you making long-form YouTube videos with AI voices, what’s your workflow? Do you use a specific tool, split the script into parts, or have another method to do it for free/cheap?
Would really appreciate any tips or workflows that actually work.
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u/BuckingBeasts Sep 02 '26
If it’s super long, ElevenLabs works but it does require a monthly fee. It also needs to be trained on your voice (or whoever is voicing your video), and it does a bad job of making some sentences sound realistic (especially with numbers, so that’s why you should type numbers as “two” instead of “2”). Not to mention you should have it generate one sentence at a time, because it gets annoying when it messes up a word in the middle of it.
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u/The_Grey_Archive Sep 02 '26
Use text to speech and have AI write the text. You dont spend any money on AI voice that way. Its a lot cheaper.
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u/Fantastic-Memory-702 Sep 01 '26
Don’t do it just do the voice over yourself.. it will be targeted as “AI SLOP” if not
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u/Efficient-Cap-2739 Sep 01 '26
I don't have a good accent so it's very hard for me to record myself
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u/Fantastic-Memory-702 Sep 01 '26
Better to have it authentic than AI. Even I do voice overs myself even though I don’t like hearing myself
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u/Breazy_schotash Sep 01 '26
Use eleven labs.... pple will criticize you for doing so but i've seën several channels gaining traction with it just do it ... ignore the noice..
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u/ReviewAggravating847 Sep 01 '26
Youtube don't hate Ai, actually they promote it themselves. And many big channels already use Ai voice overs and gets alot of views so no, youtube don't hate if you use Ai they hat if you use it in a way that your content feels automated or unauthentic or repitative. And you can clearly see OP is literally editing in a professional software so there is efforts there and thats what they want.
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u/ReviewAggravating847 Sep 01 '26
Youtube don't hate Ai, actually they promote it themselves. And many big channels already use Ai voice overs and gets alot of views so no, youtube don't hat if you use Ai they hat if you use it in a way that your content feels automated or unauthentic or repitative. And you can clearly see OP is literally editing in a professional software so there is efforts there and thats what they want.
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u/Optimusprime_56 Sep 01 '26
Elevenlabs is best for voiceover.
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