FakeYou
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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Community-trained character voices for parody and fan-fiction — Tortoise + custom models.
Best for fan-creators who want a character voice (cartoon, game, celebrity) for parody and short skits. Pricing: freemium.
What it is
FakeYou is a community marketplace of TTS voices, many cloned from public figures. Listed for completeness; teams shipping commercial dubs should default to ElevenLabs / Camb.ai / Resemble where consent + licensing are part of the contract.
Watch out for: Many community-trained voices were uploaded without consent of the original speaker — usage can carry takedown / publicity-rights risk. Best treated as a sandbox, not a production tool.
Install / use
Go to FakeYou fakeyou.comWhat people actually do with FakeYou-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 20 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
FakeYou vs Whipscribe
| Feature | FakeYou | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 20 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, API | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about FakeYou
Is FakeYou free?
Partly. FakeYou has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: freemium. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.
Does FakeYou work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
FakeYou runs on Web and API. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond Web and API.
How do I get started with FakeYou?
There is nothing to install — FakeYou is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does FakeYou support?
FakeYou lists 20 languages.
What are the limitations of FakeYou?
Many community-trained voices were uploaded without consent of the original speaker — usage can carry takedown / publicity-rights risk. Best treated as a sandbox, not a production tool.
Who is FakeYou best for?
Fan-creators who want a character voice (cartoon, game, celebrity) for parody and short skits.
Is FakeYou open source?
No. FakeYou is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
What kind of tool is FakeYou?
In this directory FakeYou is filed under multilingual tts as a product.
What are the alternatives to FakeYou?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/fakeyou-alternatives comparing FakeYou with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate FakeYou-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from FakeYou?
FakeYou is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of FakeYou?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the FakeYou category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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