I’m trying to use Lovo AI for generating audio and voice overs for my projects, but I’m having trouble figuring out the best settings and getting natural-sounding results. Has anyone here worked with Lovo AI before and can offer advice or tips on improving audio quality and custom voice generation? Any help or step-by-step guidance would be appreciated.
Yeah, I’ve wrestled with Lovo AI for my e-learning modules and podcast intros. Honestly, making it sound “natural” is a bit of an art form (or a test of patience, lol). First mistake I made: leaving the speed and pitch at default. If you tweak the speed down just a notch (like minus 2-5%), it starts to shed that overly peppy “AI radio host” vibe. Pitch depends on the voice, but sometimes going a step lower helps with those chipmunkish reads.
Biggest tip: write your script like you TALK. Ditch the perfect grammar sometimes, throw in contractions and short sentences. And for pauses, actually type in the pause markers (I use “…” or even explicit break tags, depending) to control phrasing. Otherwise, it’ll rattle through the script without breathing.
Voices themselves are a mixed bag. Some are a lot more “robot” than their samples promise (especially after a long batch render). I bounce between 2-3 voices, and I’ll run short test reads with each before committing. Also, if you’re looping in background music, keep the voice a tiny bit louder than you think you should—Lovo’s output is sometimes softer, which gets buried under music tracks.
Honestly, it’s still not going to fool everyone, but for YouTube or online course narration, it gets the job done quick—way faster and cheaper than hiring voice actors for each revision. If you crank up the emotion sliders you can get close-ish to “neutral podcast host”, but any real excitement or sadness… yeah, it’s not there yet.
TL;DR: Slow it down a little, rewrite for speech, use pause breaks, test a few voices, and season audio with mild expectations. It takes some fiddling, but it’s pretty decent when you dial it in.
Honestly, I get where you’re coming from—Lovo’s “AI” voice can sometimes sound like it’s reciting a GPS manual written by a robot for other robots. But while @sognonotturno made some good points, I’ll throw in a slightly different take. Yeah, speed and pitch are worth tweaking, but I actually found more improvement by messing around with sentence structure and punctuation than fiddling with pause tags or break markers. I use a TON of exclamation marks and, weirdly, emojis in my script drafts (I strip ‘em out later)—it sort of tricks the AI into reading with more variation and less “flatness.” Not always perfect, but it helps.
I’d also add: the preview function is your real MVP here. Don’t trust the AI’s “sample voice” until you’ve slammed a few paragraphs into it yourself. Some voices absolutely tank tonality on longer reads, but others stay pretty consistent.
As for the “neutral” thing—totally agree, excited or sad reads are meh. But I found that sometimes stacking one-liners together, as separate clips, then stitching them back in post, gets you more variance in tone. Tedious? Yes, but better than a monotone drone for 15 mins straight.
Haven’t had great results with background music directly on Lovo tracks tbh—it tends to mud things up fast. I usually export the naked VO, then mix in something in Audacity or Reaper with a compressor and a bit of eq. Fixes the volume issue a lot better, and you actually get some dynamic range in the final output.
Biggest difference-maker for me, though: I use a cold-read test. Play your audio for someone who doesn’t know what it’s “supposed” to sound like and ask if they think it’s a real person. You won’t always get a “yes,” but it’s the only real test that matters.
So yeah, Lovo isn’t a miracle worker, and you’ll still catch that uncanny valley sometimes, but for quick turnarounds? Not terrible if you tinker enough. Just don’t expect Morgan Freeman. Or even discount audiobook guy. Aim lower, be happy.