Speak Any Language in Your Own Voice — Native Voice Cloning in Meetings

Gaavala’s Pro voice cloning lets you record a two-minute sample of your own voice and use it for translated speech in 60 languages. It changes the voice heard in supported browser meetings; it does not make translations infallible. This guide covers setup, playback limits and the optional sample’s privacy.

What Native Voice Cloning Actually Is

The idea is simple to state and took real engineering to make reliable: read a two-minute script aloud once, and Gaavala builds a synthetic voice modeled on yours. From then on, when Speak Mode plays your translated sentence into a meeting, it can play it in that voice instead of a generic preset — in Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, or any of the 60 languages Gaavala supports, cross-lingually, from the same single sample.

This is a Soniox-powered feature — your personal clone is included as part of your Pro plan. There is no separate account to create, no per-character billing to track, and no API key to paste into a settings field.

How to Use It

1. On Pro, open the side panel’s Speak voice picker and choose the option to create your own voice.
2. Read the consent information and confirm that you are recording your own voice.
3. In a quiet place, read the displayed script at a natural, even pace. Keep a steady distance from the microphone; allow about two minutes for the reference recording.
4. Listen to the recording on the review screen and read its quality feedback. Record again if needed, then name the voice and choose the create action.
5. Wait for the voice to reach Ready, then check that it is selected in Speak. Uploading and processing are separate states; neither guarantees a fixed completion time.
6. Set the Speak source and target languages. The caption language is a separate setting.
7. Try a short sentence with another participant before the meeting. Use the Speak button to hold for a turn or tap for a hands-free window.

If the sample is too quiet, distorted or contains too little speech, the review screen blocks upload and asks for another recording. Move closer or adjust the microphone level as instructed; do not shout to compensate. A warning allows upload but explains what could improve. Listen again and decide whether to record a cleaner sample.

If creation fails, follow the displayed Retry or Re-record action. A service-capacity message calls for trying later; an unusable recording calls for a new take. If another panel is recording, finish or stop that recording first. Once a voice exists, its management view lets you rename or delete it. To replace the reference, use the deletion and new-recording flow; review the privacy policy for deletion handling.

Before using a clone in a real call, try a short phrase with a colleague and check names, numbers and the target language. A familiar-sounding voice does not guarantee a correct translation. “Spoken” confirms playback, not that another participant heard it. Gaavala mirrors mute in Teams; Meet and Webex mute does not stop Gaavala playback, and Zoom mute is not observable by the extension. Stop speech with Gaavala’s own controls. Typed messages do not appear in the meeting transcript or its AI summary.

For spoken replies, the Speak Mode guide explains the difference between holding the button and opening a hands-free window.

A cloned voice can also read typed replies; see the accessibility guide for playback and microphone requirements.

For short spoken replies with your clone, the Push-to-Talk guide explains button focus and when to hold and release.

The Privacy Model

A voice sample is not like a transcript or a meeting recording. It is biometric data — a physical characteristic that can identify you — and Gaavala treats it accordingly, with protections that go further than the rest of the product's already-direct audio pipeline.

Here is what happens: your two-minute sample is stored encrypted at rest on Gaavala's servers using AES-256-GCM. It is used for exactly one purpose — building and maintaining your personal synthetic voice — and for nothing else. It is never used for identification, never used for advertising, and never shared beyond the one purpose it exists for. Every service that processes the sample, Soniox included, does so only to build your voice model.

This is a deliberate exception to how Gaavala handles audio everywhere else in the product. Your meeting audio and your Speak Mode microphone input are never stored on our servers — they stream browser-to-Soniox and are gone. Your voice-clone sample is different by necessity: for the clone to work session after session, something has to persist so your voice can be reproduced later. So we made that one exception explicit, narrow, and fully reversible: encrypted, purpose-bound, and yours to remove.

You can request deletion of your voice from settings. This removes your saved voice from the product through the deletion workflow described in the privacy policy; it cannot retract speech already heard or recordings made by other participants. Check the policy for the handling of your reference sample.

Full details on retention, processing, and your rights around this data live in our Privacy Policy, under the voice-clone section — the same document that governs every other claim we make about how Gaavala handles your data.

The meeting audio privacy guide separates live audio, local transcript history and the optional voice sample.

Who This Is For

Native voice cloning is aimed at the same people Speak Mode already serves, with one added benefit: consistency. If you run recurring calls with the same clients, teammates, or partners across languages, hearing the same voice — your voice — every time removes a layer of unfamiliarity that a rotating studio preset never quite eliminates. International consultants, multilingual team leads running standups across offshore teams, and sales reps working foreign markets are the clearest fits, for the same reasons they already reach for Speak Mode: being understood, not just heard.

It is also the lowest-friction way to get a personal voice — no second vendor relationship to maintain.

Pro includes native voice cloning. If you are on Pro, open Speak Mode in the side panel to record your sample and try it in your next meeting.