Voices and avatars

The voices Goosy can speak your videos in, and the presenters he can put on camera.

Two registries decide who your videos sound like and who they look like. Voices holds the voices Goosy can narrate in. Avatars holds the on-camera presenters he can use. Both live in Settings, one under the other, and both work the same way: a list of what this workspace already has, plus two ways to add more.

Both screens carry the same standing rule, and it is not a formality. Create a voice clone or use a likeness only with that person’s recorded consent.

Voices

Settings → Voices is described on the screen as the voices your assistant can speak in — cloned or licensed. Under the heading, Voice registry shows how many you have.

Reading a row

Each row gives you the name, then the provider and what kind of voice it is — whether it came ready-made, is a professional voice, or is one you added — and any note that was saved with it.

On the right of the row is a status, and a voice with nothing to flag carries no badge at all — it is simply usable.

Status	What it means
Default	Usable, and set as the default for at least one kind of production.
(no badge)	Usable. Approved, and the rights behind it are cleared, owned or licensed.
Pending review	Not usable yet, and still moving — either the voice is not approved, or the rights are still being checked.
Unavailable	Not usable, and it will not clear on its own — the voice has been switched off, or its rights were withdrawn.

Only a usable voice can be previewed, or picked when something is being made — the badge and the availability are the same answer.

Adding a voice

Two controls sit in the header, and they do different jobs.

1. Pick from library

   Opens Add a voice from the library — audition a curated default, or search the full library. Defaults is a shortlist; Browse voices has a search box and tags each result with its type, the speaker’s rough age and accent, and what it suits — conversational, narration, social, and so on. Anything already in your registry is marked Added; everything else offers Use this voice.

2. Add a voice

   For a voice you already hold with the provider. Give it a label you will recognise, paste the voice ID from your provider account, and optionally set the voice type, the language as a standard language tag such as en-US, and a short note on what it is for.

   The ID is taken exactly as you paste it — it is not checked with the provider first — so copy it rather than typing it from memory.

Changing one later

Manage on any row offers Edit and Deactivate. If you do not have permission to manage this workspace’s settings, the control is not there at all.

Editing changes the label, the type, the language and the note. It does not change which voice it points at: the provider ID is fixed once a voice is added, so to point somewhere else, Deactivate the old entry and add a new one — there is no separate remove; a deactivated entry stays in the list.

Voice credentials are stored encrypted.

Avatars

Settings → Avatars holds your on-camera likeness for avatar-led videos. It reads the same way as Voices — a list, two ways to add, Manage on each row.

Reading a row

Name, provider, and any note saved with it. The status is about consent and rights, and it always names the actual reason rather than a general “not ready”:

Status	What it means
Ready	Usable now — active, consented, rights cleared, and the consent has not lapsed.
Consent pending	The person has not yet given consent.
Rights pending	Consent is in, the rights are still being checked.
Consent expired	Consent has lapsed and needs to be given again.
Consent revoked	Consent was withdrawn. This does not clear on its own.
Rights revoked	The rights were withdrawn. Also permanent.
Inactive	Switched off deliberately.

A row whose consent is still valid but lapses within the next month is flagged as expiring soon, so you can renew it before a render fails.

Adding an avatar

1. Pick from library

   Add an avatar look — preview a curated default, or browse the public library on the Browse avatars tab. If nothing is curated for you yet, the Defaults tab says so and points you at Browse.

2. Add an avatar

   For an avatar you already hold with the provider. Give it a display name, paste the avatar ID from your provider account, optionally record how it was created, and choose where it can be used — as the presenter in an avatar lesson, as the picture-in-picture face over a screen share, or both.

   As with voices, the ID is pasted exactly and is not verified with the provider first.

Manage offers Edit and Deactivate, the same as Voices.

An avatar added by hand is available to your whole account — sibling workspaces can pick it too, so treat a likeness as shared once it is in. The renders made with it stay keyed to the workspace that made them.

Where these get used

A production profile can name a default voice and a default avatar for the kind of video it makes. Those defaults are provisioned values — you can see them on Production profiles, but there is no control there for changing them today.

What to do next

• Strategy and taste — steering what Goosy writes without repeating yourself.
• Production profiles — the look and shape a render comes out in.