A user on r/ElevenLabs described their cloned voice as "too pristine - like the AI restored my voice to a younger, less character-filled version of itself."

That one sentence nailed it. Most cloning models are trained on clean, professional audio.
So when your voice goes in, it doesn't just get copied, it gets corrected.
The rasp smoothed out, the pacing evened, and the natural drop in energy at the end of a thought, gone.
Technically better audio. Emotionally hollow output.
A November 2025 study from Queen Mary University found listeners are fooled by synthetic voices more than half the time.
But fooled isn't the same as convinced. Something feels off. They just can't name it.
What they're feeling is the absence of imperfection. The fingerprints that make a voice actually yours.
Most tools optimise for clean. However, we are taking a little different road than just clean.
We built Velo's voice clone to optimise for you - preserving the rhythm, texture, and natural unevenness that makes your voice recognisable as yourself.
Our new feature launch is also around perfecting voice clones and streaming them faster.
This is such an exciting time to be in this AI space. Would love to connect with any fellow builder in AI voice cloning space.
Let's catch-up and exchange ideas, what say?

Hey everyone!

We're beyond grateful to be named Product of the Day. It has been incredible, and the response from this community has blown us away.

The first version taught us a lot. What worked, what didn t, where people got stuck, and where things felt magical. We ve rebuilt a lot of Velo from the ground up based on that.

Before we hit launch, I want to ask this community directly:

What would you expect from a product like Velo today?

Velo is trying to make it effortless to express ideas through video, using your screen, your voice, and AI, without needing to be good at making videos.

Some of you have been using and sharing Velo without us asking.
We are seeing it and we really appreciate it. More than you know.
So we have launched an affiliate program - our way of giving back for all that organic sharing and the love you have been showing Velo.
We would love for you to know more about it. And if it interests you, we would be genuinely happy to have you as part of the Velo family.
Check it out here: https://www.usevelo.ai/affiliate...
Moreover, it not restricted for just Velo users. If you make content, run a community, or just know people who would find Velo useful - this is worth a look.
And here is the thing, with Velo 2.0 launching soon, this is going to be an amazing time to be close to what we are building.
The momentum is real and it is only going up from here. So excited for what is coming.
Can you guess what we are going to enhance, change, or add in Velo 2.0?
Take wild guesses. I would genuinely love to know what you think.
usevelo.ai

Velo is soo cool .. as a founder I've been using a bunch of the products and always thought there was a gap .. y'all solved it ! Made a short explainer video, hope I got it right.

Things have been moving really fast at Velo. 

The pace at which we're building based on feedback has honestly been a bit crazy, in a good way.

We're shipping, iterating, and learning fast.