Commercial use of AI voices: what you are actually allowed to do
“Commercial use allowed” is the most repeated and least documented claim in this industry. So instead of repeating it, this page quotes the clause, links to the contract, and is equally specific about what the licence does not cover.
What the terms grant you
“Subject to your compliance with these Terms and with your plan, you may use the Generated Content you produce, including commercially, for the lifetime of the file. We claim no ownership over the specific output you generate and we do not use your generated files to promote the Service without your consent.”Terms of Service §9 — Ownership of Generated Content
In practice that covers monetised YouTube and podcasts, advertising, e-learning and corporate video, audiobooks, games, IVR and phone systems, and work you deliver to a client. There is no separate commercial licence to buy on top and no attribution requirement. Read it in full in the Terms of Service.
What the terms do not grant
You get rights over the audio, not over the voice. Specifically: no rights in the catalogue voices themselves, no rights in the models, the catalogue or the infrastructure, and an explicit prohibition on using a catalogue voice to train, fine-tune, distil or reconstruct another speech model.
Voice names in our catalogue are deliberately unisex labels, not people, and the catalogue contains no impersonations of real public figures. If you are looking for a synthetic voice that sounds like a specific celebrity, this is not that service — and using one would be a problem in most jurisdictions regardless of who sold it to you.
Free platform voices are not the same thing
The text-to-speech voices built into TikTok, CapCut or a phone OS are features of those products, licensed for use inside them. Whether you can lift that audio and monetise it elsewhere is governed by each platform's own terms, which change, and it is worth reading them before a video with someone else's asset in it becomes part of your income.
The reason to pay for a voice at all is largely this: a licence you can point to, in writing, with a date on it.
The AI watermark is mandatory — and it protects you too
Every file the service produces is marked as AI-generated. There is no setting to turn it off: a synthesis worker that cannot load the watermarking model refuses to start, and each assembled file is re-checked before delivery. The marking is a metadata fingerprint plus an inaudible AudioSeal watermark embedded in the signal itself, so it survives transcoding — the MP3 you download inherits the watermark of the canonical WAV.
That is not a limitation we bolted on; it is Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the AI Act), applicable since 2 August 2026, which requires synthetic audio to be machine-readably marked. If you publish in the EU, using a tool that marks its output is the state you want to be in. The mark is inaudible and does not affect how your audio sounds. Detail in the AI Disclosure.
Download within 7 days
Generated files are retained for 7 days and then deleted automatically. Your licence to the audio does not expire — the file on our servers does. Download what you need when you generate it.
| Included | |
|---|---|
| Monetised video, podcasts and ads | Yes |
| Audiobooks and commercial narration | Yes |
| Work delivered to a client | Yes |
| Attribution to kreawave required | No |
| Extra commercial licence to buy | No — included with your plan |
| Rights in the voice itself | No — only in the audio you generate |
| Training another model on catalogue voices | No — expressly prohibited |
| Removing the AI watermark | No — a serious breach; the mark is built to survive editing and transcoding |
| File kept on our servers | 7 days, then deleted |
Voices you can use commercially, playing right now
Every voice in the catalogue carries the same licence — there is no premium commercial tier. Press play; no account needed.
- Amari
“Across the vast expanse of the savanna, the herd moves slowly, guided by instincts passed down through countless generations.”
- Amets
“So today we are diving into something a little different, and honestly, I think you are going to love this one.”
- Andie
“Once, in a garden bursting with giant sunflowers, a tiny ladybug set off to find her very best friend.”
- Angel
“Long before humans arrived, these caverns were carved by rushing water, slowly shaping the landscape we see today.”
- Aoba
“From the ashes of a broken kingdom, a new hero emerges to fight for what remains of hope.”
- Aoi
“He counted the footsteps behind him twice before he realized the street was completely empty.”
One thing this page is not
This is not legal advice, and we are not your lawyers. It is a plain-language summary of a contract you can read in full, written by the people bound by it. If your use case is unusual — political advertising, medical or financial guidance, anything involving a real person's likeness — check the Acceptable Use Policy as well, because some of those are restricted regardless of the commercial licence.