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A cloned voice is built from real speech recordings of a real person. Before you use one — your own, an employee’s, or anyone else’s — you need that person’s clear consent. This page explains why, and gives you a practical checklist.
This page explains the general legal landscape around voice cloning in the EU. It is not legal advice. Talk to your own counsel about your specific situation, especially before cloning anyone’s voice for commercial use.
A voice identifies a person almost as reliably as a fingerprint, and the law treats it accordingly:
  • It’s personal data. Under the GDPR, a voice recording used to identify someone is biometric data — a special category under Article 9 that may not be processed without a clear legal basis, and in practice that basis is the person’s explicit consent.
  • It’s protected by personality rights. In the EU and most other jurisdictions, a person has the right to decide whether their voice is recorded, published, or imitated. Cloning someone’s voice without permission can expose you to injunctions and damages, independent of GDPR.
  • Performers have their own rights. If the voice belongs to a professional speaker, actor, or voice performer, their recordings are typically also covered by neighboring/performers’ rights — separate from the personality-rights protection above, and usually running for decades after the recording is made.
  • Copyright doesn’t apply to the voice itself. Copyright protects a specific recording or performance, not the sound of a voice in the abstract — so it’s not a substitute for consent, and it doesn’t give you permission to clone a voice just because you own a recording of it.
Consent that will hold up needs to be:
Extra care applies when the voice belongs to a minor — consent must come from a parent or legal guardian.

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Labelling AI-generated audio

Since August 2026, the EU AI Act requires that AI-generated or manipulated audio realistic enough to be mistaken for a real recording of a person — a “deepfake” — is disclosed as artificially generated. In practice, that means telling your customers or audience when they are hearing a cloned voice rather than the person themselves. Two narrow cases soften this: in evidently artistic, creative, satirical, or fictional work the disclosure only has to exist in a way that doesn’t spoil the piece, and the duty doesn’t apply where the use is authorised by law to detect, prevent, investigate, or prosecute criminal offences.
1

Get consent before you clone

Have the voice owner (or their guardian, for a minor) agree in writing to the specific purpose, product, and duration of use — before you create the clone, not after.
2

Document and store it safely

Keep the signed consent somewhere durable and access-controlled. You may need to produce it later.
3

Limit the purpose

Use the clone only for what was agreed. A new use case — a new product, a new market, a public campaign — needs its own consent.
4

Make withdrawal easy

Give the person a clear way to withdraw consent, and have a process ready to delete or deactivate the cloned voice when they do.
5

Label the output where required

If the audience could mistake the cloned voice for the real person, disclose that it’s AI-generated.
Need a consent form or usage agreement template? Contact support — we don’t publish sample contracts in these docs, since the right wording depends on your jurisdiction and use case, but our team can point you to a starting template.

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Where cloned voices are used in Famulor

Once you have consent, open the assistant’s Voice tab, go to the voice library, and select Clone a voice. Upload or record a clean sample; the finished voice then appears under Cloned voices — private to your workspace, never shared with anyone else — and can be picked like any other library voice. Cloning your own voice needs the Clone your own voice add-on; check your workspace’s Settings → Plan for availability and how many cloned voices your plan allows. Need more than your plan includes? Extra cloned-voice slots are purchasable individually, also from Settings → Plan. A slot only adds capacity on top of the Clone your own voice add-on — buying slots alone, without that add-on, doesn’t unlock cloning.