OutaStory has a shared voice-clone marketplace at
/voices/marketplace. It is a place where an
author who has made a voice clone can offer it, and other authors can
narrate their own stories with it.
It is a writer-only surface — readers never need it — and
everything on it is settled in credits.
Two marketplaces, two different things
This is the part people mix up, so it is worth separating clearly.
/voices/marketplace— shared voice
clones. Writer-only, settled in credits./speakers— the professional human narrator
marketplace, where you can have a person read your story.
A voice clone is a synthetic voice. A speaker is a person who
records your story. They are separate systems with separate pages,
and nothing you do in one affects the other. If what you actually
want is a human reading, start at
Hiring a speaker.
Your own voice clones
Voice clones are made from your own recordings — see
Record your narration voice
for how that works.
- Your first voice clone is free.
- Each further clone costs 500 credits.
- You can hold up to 5 voice clones in total.
That cap is per account, so it is worth thinking about which voices
you really want before you fill it.
A shared clone still makes an ordinary narration
Narrating with a voice from the marketplace doesn't change any of the
normal rules. The story still has to be published — narration is
impossible on a draft. You still choose one voice for the whole
story. Generation still takes several minutes per chapter. And
the usual arithmetic applies: the first narration of a story is
free, each extra narration version costs 50 credits.
In other words, the marketplace widens the choice of voice. It doesn't
change how narration itself works, which is covered in
Adding narration to your story.
Not available in every app
The marketplace isn't part of every OutaStory app. If you don't see
it where you are, that is expected rather than a fault — open
OutaStory somewhere else and it will be there.