Voice Studio Explained
Creating voice tracks is often a cumbersome process, and it may sometimes involve using third-party services. Radio.co has developed a solution, Voice Studio.
Voice Studio enables broadcasters to professionalise their audio by facilitating seamless transitions and custom audio overlays, offering features reminiscent of professional editing tools. Record, mix, and manage voice tracks directly in your station's hub, enabling you to create engaging announcements for your station.
Voice Studio is only available on Standard, Plus, and Premium plans. If you're on the Lite plan, you can upgrade in Billing > Change Plan. Guest DJ and DJ users do not have access to Voice Studio, regardless of station plan.
Voice Tracking Options
Boiled down, Voice Studio offers 2 approaches to create audio mixes.
Simple Voice Tracking: Designed for basic playback with no voice-music overlapping, ideal for straightforward transitions.
Advanced Voice Studio Mode: Supports layered audio, including voice overlays and music fades, for a more polished outcome.
Choose between simple voice tracking for dry transitions or advanced 'Voice Studio' mode for professional voice-music overlays and DJ-style effects.
Record Human Voice tracks: Record your own voice tracks, mix them with one music track and multiple voice tracks, and manage them within Voice Studio.
Use AI Voice tracks: Generate and mix AI voice tracks using pre-selected AI voices.
Accessing Voice Studio
In Radio.co, select 'Voice Studio' on the left side menu. Within here, you can start building a timeline of audio. Choose 'Add Track' to see your options.
Options vary, but they offer ways to add and manipulate your audio timeline.
Record Voice Track: Record your own voice, similar to the existing Voice Tracking feature.
Generate AI Voice: Generate a voiceover from a selection of AI powered voices, read from a script.
Add Media From Your Library: Upload a track from your Radio.co Library.Add Voice Track From Your Library: Use an existing Voice Track (from the Voice Tracking section) on Radio.co.
Add Library Recordings: Upload a recording from your Radio.co Library.
Add Sounds From Radio.co Library: Use sounds provided by Radio.co.
Upload Audio File From Device: Upload a track from your computer.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Voice Studio supports keyboard shortcuts to streamline your workflow.
Commands | Actions |
Space | Play/pause playback. |
← (Arrow Left) | Rewind by 100ms (Shift + Left: 10ms, CMD + Left: Full duration). |
→ (Arrow Right) | Fast-forward by 100ms (Shift + Right: 10ms, CMD + Right: Full duration). |
↑ (Arrow Up) | Increase volume (master or selected track). |
↓ (Arrow Down) | Decrease volume (master or selected track). |
M | Toggle mute on selected track. |
S | Toggle solo on the selected track. |
CMD + 1-9 | Select track by number (1-9). |
D / Delete / Backspace | Delete selected track. |
CMD + Wheel | Scroll timeline. |
Recording Voice Tracks
Select 'Record Voice Track' from the menu. The side drawer will appear on the right.
Microphone: Choose your Microphone from the list. We'll start with your default system device.
Use Script: This area is useful to enter, or generate a script template.
Record: Click the red circle to start the recording. Press again to stop the recording. You will be offered a preview prior to saving to the Voice Mixer.
Generate AI Voices
When selected, a new drawer will appear on the right side of the screen.
If you haven't selected a voice already, choose one from the drop-down. We support English in US, Canadian, British and Australian dialects, along with Spanish.
You can preview each voice using the play button to the left, and review their tone characteristics on the right.
Click Select next to the voice that with the right fit for your voice track to continue.
Enter your script, or choose some samples using the options on the screen.
The AI Voice will read everything you enter here. Don't add additional instructions or tone cues. To create pauses, we recommend using short sentences and break them up using dashes, em dashes and commas where appropriate.
Click Generate - the clip generation can take several minutes.
Once generated, you can preview the clip, and add it in to your Voice Studio session.
AI usage consumes credits. Each character is 1 credit. A character is defined as uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols (e.g. punctuation marks). View available credits in the Voice Studio dashboard (top right).
Voice Mixer Explained
The Voice Mixer (Audio Mixing Tool) allows you to do the following:
Combine multiple voice tracks with one music track.
Trim, reposition, and delete tracks.
Manage the volume fade points of your tracks.
Tracks can be isolated to focus on specific elements.
Add tracks directly onto a timeline.
Mixed tracks can be downloaded to your system.
Mixed tracks can be saved to the Radio.co media library.
Using Voice Mixing
Once you've added your tracks to the voice mixer
Once you've added your tracks to the voice mixer, you can do the following:
1. Move the waveforms to organise when each individual track starts
2. Mute the track
3. Change the volume of the track
4. Apply a fade using nodes
Exporting Tracks
To export a track, click 'Export' in the top right corner.
You will have the option of the following:
Add to Media Tracks: Add to the Tracks section in Radio.co.
Add to Voice Tracks: Add to the Voice Tracks section in Radio.co.
Download Track: Download the track to your computer.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the support team at help@radio.co.
Credit Usage
Radio.co plans offer a different number of inclusive monthly credits.
Plan | Credit Options |
Standard | 1,500 |
Standard Extra | 3,000 |
Plus | 6,000 |
Premium | 12,000 |
If you need more credits, either upgrade your Radio.co plan (Billing > Change Plan) or purchase one-off packs of 2,000 credits for $5.
Purchasing Credits
Need a bump on credits? In Voice Studio, click the + button next to available credits. Select the quantity of credits you need. Payment will be taken from the default payment method set in Radio.co.
Credits expire 1 year (365 days) after purchase.
Back on the main screen, if you click 'Available Credits', you will see the credits available to you.
Purchased credits will only be used after your monthly allocation of plan credits have been exhausted.