How to clone your voice in Tella
You recorded a clean walkthrough in Tella and now you want to fix the narration without re-recording the whole take - the room got noisy halfway through, you fumbled a product name, or you would rather write the script once and have it read back in your own voice every time you update the video. So you go looking for a voice cloning option.
It is a reasonable thing to want. Cloning your voice means a flubbed line becomes a one-line text edit instead of a re-shoot, and a tutorial series can stay in a consistent voice as you revise it. Here is the straight answer on where Tella stands today, the manual workaround that gets you partway there, and how to do it end to end in one app if you would rather not juggle tools.
Does Tella have voice cloning?
No. As of May 2026, Tella does not offer voice cloning, and it does not offer AI text-to-speech narration at all. It records and edits the audio you give it - microphone, system audio, imported music - but there is no voice model inside the app that can generate speech from a script, cloned or otherwise.
Tella does not run a public feature-request board (no Canny, Featurebase, or open roadmap), so there are no upvotes to point at - but the absence is clear from Tella’s own properties. Voice cloning and AI voiceover appear nowhere in Tella’s complete documentation index (tella.com/docs/llms.txt), nowhere in the changelog covering December 2022 through May 2026 (tella.com/docs/changelog), and nowhere on the pricing page’s feature lists (tella.com/pricing). Tella is a well-made product from a strong team that has focused on browser-based recording, clips, and a polished share page rather than on voice generation. That is a defensible product decision - it just means cloning your voice is not something Tella can do today.
The manual workaround in Tella
You cannot clone your voice or generate narration from text inside Tella, but you can bring an audio track in from outside. The workaround hangs on Tella’s audio import:
- Write your script. Watch your recording and write what you want said at each point. Keep sentences short.
- Clone your voice in a separate tool. Use a standalone voice tool such as ElevenLabs to create a clone of your voice, paste in the script, and export the result as an audio file.
- Import it into Tella. Add the generated file through Tella’s audio panel (tella.com/docs/help/editing/add-background-music-to-your-video.md).
- Lower or mute the original audio so the imported narration is not competing with whatever your microphone picked up while recording.
- Hand-align the timing until the narration lines up with the right moments on screen.
This works for a single pass, but be honest with yourself about the downsides before you commit to it. Tella’s audio import is built for background music, not a narration track - it is one track laid under the video, not speech synced section by section. If you trim or re-order a clip, the imported audio does not move with it, so you re-align by hand. And changing one sentence means going back to the external tool, regenerating, re-exporting, re-importing, and re-aligning the whole thing. You are also maintaining two tools and two accounts and shuttling files between them.
To be fair about what Tella does offer for audio: it ships filler-word removal and Studio Voice, an AI enhancement that removes background noise and evens out levels on your recorded microphone audio (tella.com/docs/help/editing/studio-voice-audio-enhancement.md). Those are genuinely useful - but they clean up audio you spoke yourself; they do not generate or clone a voice from a script.
How to clone your voice with Tight Studio instead
If the point is to narrate in your own voice without re-recording every time the script changes, it helps to have the voice clone inside the editor where the video lives. Tight Studio is a Mac screen recorder and editor with voice cloning and AI voiceover built in, powered by ElevenLabs’ latest voice model. The narration is tied to the timeline, so editing the script and editing the video are the same workflow.
1. Record a sample of your voice
Open Voice Lab in the editor. It walks you through recording a short voice sample - around twenty seconds, read from an on-screen script with a live level meter so you can see your input is clean. No separate account or file export; the sample stays in the app.
2. Create the clone
From that sample, Voice Lab creates a clone of your voice. Once it finishes, the clone appears in Tight Studio’s AI Voice picker alongside the built-in voices, ready to use on any project.
3. Apply your cloned voice to the script
Open the AI Voice panel. Tight Studio can transcribe the audio you did record into an editable script, or you can type one from scratch and split it into segments that match sections of the recording. Pick your cloned voice and generate - the narration is produced per segment and snapped to the matching part of the timeline automatically, so there is no hand-alignment.
4. Tune it and regenerate per segment
Choose the voice model (ElevenLabs V3 or V2.5) and adjust stability and AI-voice volume. Preview a segment, change a line, and regenerate just that segment without touching the rest. Because the script is the timeline, re-ordering or trimming a section moves its narration with it, and a one-line edit is a one-segment regeneration - not a full external round trip.
Tight Studio also carries the polish layer you would expect from this category - click-following zoom, cursor animation and click highlighting, text annotations, and intro/outro slides - so the cloned-voice narration is not a bolt-on to a bare recording. Tight Studio is the all-in-one screen recorder for tutorials, demos, course videos, and social cuts.
Why we built it into the editor
We kept the voice clone, the script, and the timeline as one object on purpose. The reason people want a cloned voice is iteration: write, watch, fix a line, watch again, and keep sounding like yourself the whole way. Every tool boundary in that loop - export here, import there, re-align by hand - is friction that makes you iterate less, and the narration ends up worse for it. Re-recording a flubbed line should not mean re-recording the whole take, and your own voice should scale with you.
Tella vs Tight Studio for voice cloning
| Tella | Manual workaround (voice tool + Tella) | Tight Studio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built-in voice cloning | No | No - external tool | Yes (Voice Lab) |
| Script-to-voice in app | No | No - external tool | Yes (ElevenLabs) |
| Per-segment sync to timeline | n/a | Manual alignment | Automatic |
| Regenerate after a script edit | n/a | Full external round trip | One segment, in app |
| Tools to maintain | One | Two + two accounts | One |
Frequently asked questions
Can you clone your voice in Tella?
No. As of May 2026, Tella has no voice cloning feature. It records and edits microphone, system, and imported audio, but it cannot create a clone of your voice or generate speech from a script. Voice cloning does not appear in Tella’s documentation index, changelog, or pricing page.
Does Tella have AI voiceover or text to speech?
No. Tella does not generate narration from text. The closest you can do inside Tella is record your own microphone narration, or generate audio in a separate text-to-speech tool and import it through Tella’s audio panel, which is built for background music rather than synced narration.
How do I narrate a Tella video without re-recording it?
There is no in-app way to do this in Tella. You would write a script, generate the audio in an external tool, import it as an audio track, mute the original, and align the timing by hand. A screen recorder with built-in AI voiceover like Tight Studio keeps the script linked to the timeline so you regenerate per segment instead of redoing the whole track.
What is the best Tella alternative for voice cloning?
If cloning your voice is the main thing you need, Tight Studio is the closest like-for-like alternative on Mac - it has the same category of browser-free recording and editor polish, plus Voice Lab voice cloning and built-in ElevenLabs voiceover that Tella does not offer. For voice cloning only (no screen recording), a standalone tool like ElevenLabs also works.
Is Tella’s Studio Voice the same as voice cloning?
No. Studio Voice is an AI cleanup pass - it removes background noise and evens out the levels on audio you recorded yourself. It does not create a clone of your voice or generate new speech from a script. It improves your real voice; it does not reproduce it.