Sell Voice Data
AI companies license recorded speech to train voice and speech models. If you own podcast, audiobook or voiceover recordings and your speakers agree, we match the set to buyers that take audio.
- Podcasts
- Audiobooks
- Voiceover
- IVR prompts
- Interviews
- $50K+Labelbox Prism, a small targeted dataset
- $1M+Labelbox Prism, a large enterprise deal
- 1.5–3%AWS Data Exchange listing fee, you set the price
- 15–30%Datarade commission on marketplace sales
Figures as each company publishes them. Not offers.
What makes voice data sellable?
Buyers read the spec before anyone listens. Sample rate, speakers, hours and signed releases decide who will take a set.
The spec sheet a buyer reads first
One illustrative set: a single narrator, recorded in a treated room.
- Sample rate
- 48 kHz
- Bit depth
- 24-bit, lossless
- Speakers
- 1, by anonymous ID
- Hours of speech
- 312
- Transcripts
- human-checked
- Releases
- signed, all speakers
Illustrative example, not a real dataset.
Every speaker has to agree
Hosts and every guest, the narrator, the voice talent. A release to publish an episode is not a release to license the voice for AI training.
A voice can be biometric data
Illinois's BIPA, and laws in Texas and Washington, can treat voiceprints as biometric identifiers. Have your own lawyer read any agreement.
Lossless masters sell better
WAV or FLAC at the rate you recorded. MP3 and AAC have already thrown detail away, and buyers often treat them as a lower grade.
Transcripts widen the field
Human-checked text with timestamps makes audio usable without a labeling project, so more buyers can take it.
Marketplace listing
List the set once and sell it many times, at a price you control.
- Who sets the priceYou do (AWS Data Exchange, Datarade)
- What it costsAWS 1.5% to 3%; Datarade 15% to 30% plus a plan fee
- How money arrivesAs buyers pay; AWS disburses monthly
Direct license
One buyer licenses a distinctive set, usually on terms it sets.
- Who sets the priceThe license; Labelbox Prism starts near $50K a dataset
- What it costsNo seller fee published
- How money arrivesPrism: a fee on signing, then a revenue share
Who buys voice data?
Companies with a published route for voice recordings, alphabetically. None publishes a price per hour of audio.
AWS Data Exchange
Marketplace listingList a dataset for subscribers. You set the price; AWS takes a 1.5% to 3% listing fee and pays out monthly.
Datarade
Marketplace listingA data marketplace for registered businesses. You set the price; Datarade takes a 15% to 30% commission.
Defined.ai
Marketplace listingRuns a marketplace that takes speech datasets from partners. No payout figures published.
ElevenLabs
Usage royaltyVoice actors earn from use of their cloned voice by paid users. No per-character rate published.
Labelbox
Direct licensePrism licenses whole datasets: around $50K for a small targeted set to $1M+, plus a revenue share.
Disclosure: a company in this list can owe us a referral payment when one of our introductions becomes a signed license. Payment has no bearing on the order (alphabetical) or on the wording.
Where these facts come from
Fees, payment timing and rights for each buyer or run the hours calculator
How does a voice data deal run?
Five steps from archive to payment. Your lawyer reads the license before you sign.
Inventory
Count hours of speech, speakers and formats, and split the archive into consistent sets.
Clear rights
Match every speaker to a release and set aside what you cannot clear.
Describe, then sample
Buyers read the spec first. Samples go only under the buyer's own agreement, with personal details removed.
License
The license sets scope, exclusivity, price and payment.
Deliver and get paid
Delivery and payment follow each buyer's terms. Labelbox Prism pairs a signing payment with an ongoing revenue share.
Questions about selling voice data
- Can I sell my voice recordings for AI training?
- Yes, if you own the recordings and every speaker signed a release that covers licensing for AI training. Buyers such as Labelbox Prism state that they exclude voice without explicit, timestamped consent.
- How much is an hour of voice data worth?
- Among the buyers we follow, none prints an hourly rate for voice recordings. Labelbox Prism prices whole datasets, with a floor near $50K. Treat any per-hour figure without a named source as a guess.
- Who buys voice data for AI?
- Two kinds of company publish a route. Marketplaces such as AWS Data Exchange, Datarade and Defined.ai list datasets you price yourself; direct buyers such as Labelbox Prism license a whole set. ElevenLabs pays voice actors when paid users use their cloned voice. All of them compared.
- Do I need transcripts?
- No, but they help. Human-checked transcripts with timestamps make audio usable without a labeling project, which widens the list of interested buyers.
- Can I sell a podcast with guests?
- Only the parts you can clear. Every guest needs a release that covers AI training; episodes with guests you cannot reach are usually left out.
- Is my voice biometric data?
- It can be. Illinois's BIPA, and laws in Texas and Washington, can treat voiceprints as biometric identifiers. Ask a lawyer before selling recordings that could be used to recognize or clone a speaker.
- Do you buy the recordings?
- No. Sell Voice Data never receives or hears any audio. Our job is matching your description to buyers' stated conditions and making an introduction once you approve it.
- Can a business sell call center recordings?
- Sometimes, but recorded customer calls raise different consent questions from studio and podcast audio: every caller is a speaker, and some states require every party to agree to recording. This site covers studio, podcast and voiceover audio only.
Get a quote
Give us the company ZIP, an address for our reply, then tap through some questions on the audio. Our reply names the buyers whose own published conditions your recordings appear to satisfy.
Describe the recordings in words. Audio files, transcripts, samples and download links should never be sent here, and we would delete them unread.
Sell Voice Data introduces sellers to buyers; a buyer you agree to meet can pay us a referral fee once a license is signed.
Received. Here is what happens next.
- Your answers are compared with the conditions each voice data buyer publishes on its own site.
- An email follows listing the companies that match, with links to their terms. A poor fit gets an honest "none yet".
- Your name stays with us unless you answer that email approving a particular buyer.
Leave the audio where it is stored. Any buyer wanting samples asks you directly, under its own agreement.