What teachers make
- Read-alouds of class texts, for pupils who benefit from listening while reading.
- Listening tests that sound the same for every class, every year.
- Instructions pupils can replay at a station or at home: "Step one: fold the paper in half."
- Flipped-classroom videos, narrated over slides in your voice.
- Dialogues and role-plays with several voices, for languages and drama.
- Cover lessons: instructions in your voice when you're away.
How to start
- Clone your voice from a 10-second sample, recorded in your clear "teaching" voice in a quiet room. See cloning your own voice.
- A project per course or year group, a script per unit or lesson.
- Paste the text, a sentence or two per line, or one instruction per line.
- Pick Calm or Balanced for clear, steady delivery.
- Generate, listen, save, and download the numbered files for your slides, learning platform or class page.
Sharing with colleagues
Share a project with a colleague by their account ID: Can view lets them listen and download, Can edit lets them add scripts and lines. Comments on the project work for planning together. A department can keep one project per course, with each teacher's voice in the cast. See collaborating on a project.
Accessibility
- Audio alongside text helps many pupils, including those with dyslexia or visual impairments, and those learning in a second language.
- One instruction per line means pupils can replay just the step they're on.
- Provide the text too. The download includes each script as plain text.
Things to check with your school
- Pupils' voices: don't clone a pupil's voice without a parent's or guardian's permission and your school's agreement. abcVoiceover accounts are for people 13 and over.
- Copyrighted texts: reading a published text aloud for your own class may be allowed where you teach, but sharing recordings beyond it often isn't. Check your school's guidance.
- Telling pupils that the voice is an AI version of yours avoids confusion, and is a useful lesson in itself.
Privacy
Your recordings and scripts are processed on the abcVoiceover team's own voice server, aren't sent to an outside AI company and aren't used to train models. See the privacy policy.