Can you monetize YouTube videos with an AI voice?

What the monetization policy says about voices

The words “text-to-speech” and “synthetic voice” do not appear on YouTube's monetization policy page. Voice comes up in its examples of what is and is not allowed:

• Not allowed: content that “exclusively features readings of other materials you did not originally create”.
• Not allowed: image slideshows, templated storylines or scrolling text with minimal or no narrative.
• Allowed: a scene from a movie where you have rewritten the dialogue and changed the voice-over.

So a voice is judged by the work around it. Source: YouTube channel monetization policies (checked November 14, 2026).

When an AI voice needs a label on YouTube

YouTube's disclosure page lists, among things that do not need disclosure, “Cloning one's own voice to create voice overs or dubs” and voice or audio repair. Among things that do: making it appear that a real person said or did something they did not, and AI-generated music (Disclosing use of GenAI content).

On Facebook and Instagram

Meta's help page gives “A reel narrated with a realistic AI-generated voiceover” as an example of content that needs an AI label, and says there may be penalties for content shared without a label when one is required (How to identify AI content on Meta products). More: The AI info label on Instagram and Facebook Reels.

How voices work in SceneMixer

In SceneMixer the line is not dubbed on afterwards: the video model generates picture and speech together, so a character's mouth and voice come from the same pass. Each character's voice comes from a written description, a sample matched from a preset library, or a sample you upload. When you change a line, SceneMixer can also clone the character’s voice from that clip (Original voice); a voice you do not own is not one to upload. AI character voices · Native dialogue vs dubbing.

• The corner badge. Free accounts' videos carry a small SceneMixer AIGC badge in the bottom-right corner; on a paid membership it is off by default and you can switch it back on. The AI badge switch.
• Free to start: 15 setup images on an account, episode one's storyboard on your first drama, and a 5-second free preview.

SceneMixer's Terms say that if your output is delivered without the visible label, you are responsible for any AI disclosure required where you publish it, and that you must follow the AI-content rules of the platforms you publish on (Terms, section 06).

Make it in SceneMixer, start to finish

1. Script: paste your own on Upload Script, or write the brief above in AI Create and let it draft the episodes.
2. Step 1: Type Short Drama; Scene Style Urban Opulence; Costume Style Smart Casual; Visual Style Digital HD; Target Region; dialogue language; 9:16 Portrait. Then read the script.
3. Step 2: Give each character a voice in Step 2: a written description, a preset match, or your own sample. The first 15 setup images on an account are free.
4. Storyboard: generate episode 1 first (free on your first drama) and read it before you render anything. One place per segment.
5. Video: render on the default tier at 10 credits a second, fix single shots instead of whole episodes, then put the episode together and post.

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Updated November 15, 2026