Voice data hours calculator
Enter what you hold and the calculator writes the one-line spec a buyer reads first, then shows what buyers publish about pay. On the pages we read, no buyer published a price per hour of voice audio, so the per-hour result is "not published" for every one of them.
Buyer figures last verified 7 November 2026
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Your spec line
48 kHz· 312 hours· 1 speaker· English· transcripts
One voice across many hours: the shape voice synthesis buyers look for.
| Company | Per hour of audio | Other published figure |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Data Exchange | not published | The provider sets its own price; no payout figures published |
| Datarade | not published | The provider sets its own price |
| Defined.ai | not published | not published |
| ElevenLabs | not published | Earnings based on use by paid users (free users excluded); no per-character rate published |
| Labelbox | not published | Roughly $50K per small dataset, past $1M for large deals |
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.
Figures are each company's published range or terms, not a formula of ours. Not an offer; actual license fees are often far lower, and a set missing even one speaker's signed release may not sell.
Where these facts come from
- AWS Data Exchange, provider financials documentation (read on 7 November 2026)
- AWS Marketplace, listing fee schedule (read on 7 November 2026)
- Datarade, provider plans on its apply page (read on 7 November 2026)
- Defined.ai, supplier partnerships overview (read on 7 November 2026)
- ElevenLabs, help article on voice actor payouts (read on 7 November 2026)
- ElevenLabs, Voice Library payouts docs (read on 7 November 2026)
- Labelbox, Prism licensing site (read on 7 November 2026)
How should you read the result?
The spec line is the useful part. It tells a buyer in one glance whether the set fits its project: the sample rate sets what the audio can be used for, the speaker count separates synthesis sets from recognition sets, and transcripts decide how much work the buyer has to do before training.
The only published dataset-level figure for voice comes from Labelbox's Prism page, which puts small targeted datasets at roughly $50K and the biggest enterprise deals beyond $1M. Those bounds describe its licenses generally, not your hours.
Before you contact anyone, check the speaker releases you hold. That answer matters more than any number here.
Questions about the calculator
- Why does the calculator not give a dollar figure per hour?
- Because none of the buyers we track published one when we read their pages on 7 November 2026. A made-up average would look precise and mean nothing, so the calculator shows only what buyers publish, with the source.
- What counts as an hour?
- An hour of speech. Take out intros, music beds, ad breaks and long silences. A buyer will measure the audio itself, so a cautious count is better than a generous one.
- Does the spec line commit me to anything?
- No. It is a short description you can paste into an email or our form. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you send it.
- Why do releases matter more than hours?
- A buyer cannot license a voice it cannot prove consent for. Labelbox, for example, states that it excludes voice without explicit, timestamped consent. Hours without releases are often unsellable.
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.