Quick one. I've been building software for over 20 years, and I've never done a seasonal discount before. But we just passed 40 free users, and I wanted to give people a reason to jump in this weekend.

The offer:

- Monthly plan locked in at $10/month (normally $29/month)

- That's 66% off, and the rate stays for as long as your subscription is active

Vois 2.0 is live.

This release moves Vois much closer to the product I wanted to build: a desktop voice AI studio for people making real audio, not just testing one prompt in a browser tab.

What changed:

• 100+ studio-quality voices

• Local generation on your desktop

• Scripts stay on your machine

• No per-character meter on paid plans

• Voice cloning from a consented sample on paid plans

• Voice Design and Omni in Pro for broader voice creation and 600+ languages

• Script workflow, retakes, mastering, and export in one app

Nobody talks honestly about what faceless YouTube channels actually cost to run. So here's a real breakdown.

Monthly costs for a 2-video/week channel:

Voiceover (the biggest variable):

v1.4.1 is out. Here's what shipped and what broke along the way.

The headline feature: Vois CLI and AI agent automation

This one is for the developers and automation folks. Vois now ships a CLI binary inside the app installer. AI agents (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Gemini) can drive it directly.

We host skill files at vois.so/skills that teach agents the full command set: create projects, write scripts, assign voices, generate audio, export with mastering profiles. An agent reads the skill file and knows how to run your entire voice production pipeline from the terminal.

I think about workflow optimization probably more than is healthy. Here's the batching approach I've seen work best for weekly podcast production.

The problem with "one episode at a time":

You context-switch constantly. Monday you're writing, Tuesday you're recording, Wednesday you're editing, Thursday you're publishing. Every day is a different tool, a different mindset. You never build momentum.

I've never seen a space move as fast as AI-narrated audiobooks. Platform policies shift every few months. Here's where things stand right now, as best I can tell.

Google Play Books

• Accepts AI-narrated audiobooks

• Requires disclosure that the narration is AI-generated

• Has been the most welcoming platform for AI narration since 2023

• Quality bar exists, but it's focused on audio clarity, not "humanness"

Shipped another update today. Two things people asked for, one thing I should have caught earlier, and one quiet fix.

The embarrassing one first:

Voice cloning could silently fail. If you hadn't downloaded the Expressive engine model yet, the cloning process would run, appear to finish successfully, even show engine badges on the card. But the cloned voice wouldn't actually work. It looked fine. It wasn't.

You'd think I'd be ready for launch week chaos. I was not.

Vois launched here on March 5. Here's the honest recap.

The numbers:

• 99 upvotes, #13 for the day

• 116 followers

• 9 comments on the launch post

• ~50 downloads in Week 1

• First Product Hunt review received

This one's mostly a Windows release.

The main change: if you're on Windows and using the Expressive or Multilingual engine, generation now runs on your GPU rather than your CPU. It's faster. It kicks in automatically with no setup needed. If your GPU doesn't support it for some reason, the app falls back to CPU without any fuss. You'll see a small GPU label in the engine selector when it's active.

Two other fixes landed with it:

Some Windows users were hitting a crash on startup. Tracked it down and patched it.