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glossary

verified July 2026

Voice cloning reference audio

The reference is the short clip of a real speaker that a zero-shot cloning system conditions on at request time. Everything about the clone — identity, accent, pacing — is inherited from it, which makes the reference the most consequential audio file in the pipeline.

01

The working spec

Fig. — What a working reference is

5 – 10 s

the working range — one speaker, talking naturally

~1.5 MB

the WAV cap, around 30 seconds of audio

1 room

clean beats long: a quiet room and a single voice

Consent is a requirement, not a courtesy — the speaker in the clip has agreed to be cloned.

02

How the reference travels

There is no upload step or voice-management API here: the clip rides inside the synthesis request. References are fingerprinted and cached, so the first request pays the cloning work and every reuse of the same clip skips it — the request shape itself is on the voice cloning capability sheet.

03

What happens to it afterward

Nothing. Reference audio never enters a training set, and the synthesized output it produces carries an inaudible provenance watermark applied at generation — the output is traceable as synthetic, and the reference stays yours.

See also

Related sheets.

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