Interactive checklist
Can you use it commercially?
Four questions. You get a verdict for each of the four checks, and the records to keep. General information, not legal advice.
Your four checks
Records to keep
Where these rules come from
- Kukarella's paid plans, "Unlimited commercial use for any project": the Pricing page, read 3 October 2026. Free-plan audio "for personal use only": the home page FAQ. No delete button for a cloned voice: Kukarella's app and Terms of Use, section 11.
- NaturalReader: classroom presentations that are not public still need a commercial licence (help centre, updated 15 September 2025). Murf: TV and radio broadcast for Enterprise plans (terms of service).
- "Work made for hire": 17 U.S.C. ยง101. Prompts alone do not make you the author: U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2, 29 January 2025. A new translation or edition of an old text can be a new, protected work.
- TED: no derivatives, no dubbing outside TED's translators (TED Talks Usage Policy). TPT: what you sell must be yours or licensed (TPT Terms of Service).
- YouTube: no label for cloning your own voice; no money for templated mass production (YouTube Help). Udemy: the sentence at the beginning of the course description (Udemy Help). Apple Podcasts: synthetic voices disclosed (Apple Podcasts guidelines 1.11).
- ACX: human narration unless authorized (ACX audio requirements). Google Play Books: AI narration marked as a synthesized voice.
- US calls with an AI voice: an "artificial voice" under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (FCC ruling, 8 February 2024). The rule covers calls you place.
- Famous voices: Waits v. Frito-Lay (1992), $375,000 in damages and $2 million in punitive damages over a sound-alike ad.
Rules as read on 3 October 2026. Not legal advice.