# Custom voices

Where available, **Settings → Agent → Make a custom voice** creates a spoken voice from a recording or audio file. The voice provider processes the sample. This feature requires supported provider access and is not guaranteed by the presence of a Nock subscription or the button alone.

Use your own voice or a speaker who has given you permission. The creation form requires an explicit confirmation before submitting the sample.

## Check access first

Review the relevant voice-provider connection in **Settings → Providers**. Custom voices belong to the provider account or team that creates them. Nock's candidate uses an eligible personal provider connection for custom-voice management rather than assuming a shared plan credential can create a voice for you.

Provider eligibility, limits, and availability can change. Follow the actual response shown by the form; these docs do not promise creation for every provider account or a particular price.

## Record or choose a sample

1. Open **Make a custom voice**.
2. Choose **Record** and read the displayed script, or choose **Choose a file…** for an existing sample.
3. Stop the recording and use playback to inspect it.
4. Use **Record again** or **Choose another** if the wrong speaker, background noise, or a clipped ending is present.
5. Enter a name, confirm the consent statement, and choose **Create voice**.

The current recording limit is two minutes. The file picker supports common audio formats and enforces size and duration limits. A recording uses Nock's microphone path; finish any active voice interaction first. Pressing a global voice shortcut can interrupt sample recording, so avoid it while making the clip.

Creation sends the sample to the provider. Review it before submitting: a recorded conversation may contain more than the voice sample you intended to share. Choosing a file reads it; it does not move the original file.

## Preview the result

A created voice appears under **Your voices** and can become the selected agent voice. Play a preview, then try a short ordinary request. Use [voice settings](/nock/voice-settings) to change speed or return to a built-in voice.

**Find my xAI voices** can refresh the list from that connected provider account, including voices created through the provider's own interface when supported. If you switch provider accounts, do not assume the same voice identifiers remain usable.

## Remove a voice carefully

Use the voice picker's delete control and read the confirmation. Deletion can remove the voice at the provider, affecting other uses of that voice, rather than just hiding a Nock entry. Choose another voice and test a preview if the selected one has been removed elsewhere.

## When creation fails

An expired draft requires recording or choosing the clip again. An unsupported-account message requires resolving provider eligibility, not repeatedly resubmitting the sample. For microphone problems, see [Microphone](/nock/microphone). If creation succeeded but playback fails, test a built-in voice and use [Voice troubleshooting](/nock/voice-troubleshooting) to separate account, output-device, and playback issues.