MagicLight's page on voices, read beside the sample windows others publish

MagicLight's pricing page states that voice cloning and custom character creation are available on paid plans, and its pages put script to visuals and voice in one flow, for stories up to fifty minutes with steady characters, scenes and tone. No sample length or enrolment route is published there, so the windows other tools print are the record. From 7 source pages, read 2026-09-12 to 2026-10-13; no maker pays to be listed.

1What these notes already record

The enrolment windows this register holds from other tools, and the lines it keeps about how a voice is chosen once one exists.

• Voice source
  A custom voice can be built from an audio sample between 10 seconds and 5 minutes long and at most 10 MBa published sample windowRunway, custom voices reference / recorded 2026-09-22
• Voice source
  A voice clone is instant from one recording or professional from twenty minutes or more, and is then passed as a voice idtwo enrolment routes with a thresholdHeyGen, API quick start / recorded 2026-09-22
• Voice source
  Voice cloning carries a language list of its own, running from Afrikaans to Zulu and described as the same list used for standalone cloninga cloned voice with its own reachSynthesia, create an avatar / recorded 2026-09-22
• Per-character binding
  The voice is a voice id selected from the list of available voices, with an optional language field beside ita voice id on every requestD-ID, create a talk reference / recorded 2026-09-22
• Voice source
  Reference audio is capped at 15 seconds in total across at most 3 clipsa hard published limitMiniMax, video generation guide / recorded 2026-09-12
• Voice source
  The guide tells users to use a preset voice library or their own recordingstwo routes namedSceneMixer, compliance guide / recorded 2026-09-12
• What the vendor rules out
  Cloning an identifiable voice is described as a likeness issue, with US digital-replica statutes namedSceneMixer, compliance guide / recorded 2026-09-12
• A voice written in words
  By default each character's voice is a line of description, covering age, weight, pace and where it sits, which the video model performsSceneMixer, character voices guide / recorded 2026-10-13
• Hearing a voice before using it
  Every preset in the library has a sample to play in the picker, and matching or changing a match costs nothingSceneMixer, character voices guide / recorded 2026-10-13

2The one line on voices, and the flow beside it

MagicLight's pricing page gives voices a single sentence: voice cloning and custom character creation are available on paid plans. The rest of the flow is described at the same altitude — a story or a script goes in, script, visuals and voice come out in one flow, and the story videos the tool is built for run up to fifty minutes with steady characters, scenes and tone.

Read as documentation, that settles the commercial question and leaves the production ones alone. Nothing on the page read states how long a sample should run, what format it takes, whether a recording is required at all, or what happens to a cloned voice when a plan lapses. This register's habit in that situation is to record the absence rather than guess at the mechanism, and the absences here are the finding.

3What a narration sample has to carry

Other tools publish the windows this one does not. Runway's custom voices take a sample of ten seconds to five minutes, at most ten megabytes, or a description of twenty characters or more. HeyGen's clone is instant from one recording or professional from twenty minutes of material upward. MiniMax caps reference audio at fifteen seconds in total across three clips, and D-ID reaches a voice through an id picked from its catalogue, with a language field beside it.

For a narrated story those windows are not interchangeable, because they are buying different things. Timbre arrives in a few seconds; prosody needs sentences. A reader who wants the narrator's pauses as much as the pitch records paragraphs, while a clone built from fifteen seconds lands the voice and guesses at the rest. The register records the window each page prints, and says nothing about the quality that comes out of it, which is the half only a take settles.

4Where the flow puts the voice, and where the pipeline puts it

A flow that produces script, visuals and voice together is making the choice this register tracks elsewhere as native audio: the line is performed while the shot is made, so the mouth and the sentence are one decision rather than two. The cloning line sits on top of that, and it decides whose performance it is.

The pipeline these notes read puts the voice on the character instead of in an account. Its guide points users at a preset library or at recordings of their own, and by default a character carries a voice written in words — age, weight, pace and where it sits — which the model performs until something else takes over. The same vendor treats cloning an identifiable voice as a likeness question and names the US digital-replica statutes, which is the consent half that no sample window covers.

5What the material counted

The voice numbers collected for this column belong to a speech vendor rather than a video one: ElevenLabs, 1,524 posts and 198 comment mentions, and 41 against 7 between posts counted positive and negative. The quotations kept from it ask why a platform would demonetise channels using its audio, and how one model version compares with the one before it — both questions about a synthetic voice used in public.

The repeated question is about samples, though, and it is the one printed at the top of this page: 110 near-identical threads asking what an audiobook voice sample should include. That is a casting question asked about a tool whose own page does not document the casting half, and the register can answer it only sideways, with the windows its other entries publish.

6What each of them prints about a spoken line

Inclusion rule. Rows are the makers this page is about, each read on its own public page, plus one pipeline whose spoken controls this register records line by line. A maker's cell carries the wording of the page read; the pipeline's cell is one sentence quoted from its published guides. A point a page leaves open is recorded as left open rather than filled in. Order. Alphabetical by maker.

7What the collected threads counted

The numbers below belong to a speech tool rather than a video one, which is why they are here: the half of this page that is about voices is the half the collection counted.

Inclusion rule. Names carried in the collection and read on this page. A post arguing with itself can be counted in both the positive and the negative column. Order. Descending by posts.

Inclusion rule. Questions the collection counted, quoted the way they were written. Order. Descending by the thread count.

Why is YouTube demonetizing channels that use ElevenLabs audio?

r/ElevenLabs, collected 2026-10-14

How does Eleven v4 compare with v3?

r/ElevenLabs, collected 2026-10-14

8When the other tool would serve better

• The voice has to come out with the picture — Script to visuals and voice in one flow means the line is performed as the shot is made, so no separate dubbing stage is needed to put a voice on the story.
• A clone on a paid plan is the commercial question — The page ties voice cloning and custom character creation to paid plans, which settles the licence half earlier than most entries here settle anything.
• Long-form narration is the whole job — The tool is built for story videos up to fifty minutes with steady characters, scenes and tone, which is closer to a narrated book than to a scene.

Searches like "What should an audiobook voice sample include?" land here. Read beside it: Krea lip-sync models and Runway voice clones.