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How to Add, Change, or Remove a Speaker (and when to use "No Speaker") 🗣️

Add, change or remove speakers in a dubbing project, and use "No Speaker" for lines that shouldn't be voiced.

✅ What Is a Speaker?

A speaker is the voice used in your project for dubbing or narration. Each speaker has a name, tone, and voice style.

You can use:

  • A voice taken from your original video

  • A stock or custom voice from your library

➕🗣️ How to Add a New Speaker?

Step 1: Open Speaker Settings

  • Go to your CAMB.ai project

  • Click Speaker Settings at the top-right corner

Step 2: Click "Add Speaker"

  • Fill out the speaker profile:

    • Name

    • Gender

Step 3: Choose the Voice Source (Select Voice References)

  • Voice from original media: Clone from your video's audio

  • Voice reference: Choose a stock or custom voice

🔁🗣️ How to Change a Speaker for a Dialogue?

  1. Open your project and go to the Dialogue Editor

  2. Find the dialogue line you want to change

  3. Click the speaker box

  4. Choose a different speaker from the list

❌🗣️ How to Remove or Delete a Speaker?

A. Remove the Speaker from Dialogues First

  • Check if the speaker is used in any dialogue

  • Reassign those dialogues to a different speaker (or to No Speaker, see below) using the dropdown

B. Delete the Speaker Profile

  • Go to Speaker Settings

  • Find the speaker you want to delete

  • Click the trash bin icon to delete

⚠️ You can only delete a speaker if it is not used in any dialogue.

✅ What Happens After You Add a Speaker?

  • The new speaker will appear in your project wherever you assign them.

  • If you chose "Voice from original media", make sure this person speaks in the video. CAMB.ai will clone their voice from that.

  • If you chose a Voice Reference, their selected or cloned voice will be used right away.

😶 When to use "No Speaker"

Choose No Speaker in a dialogue's speaker box when a line should not be voiced. The text stays in the script, but no voice is generated for it. Use it for:

  • On-screen text only: scene descriptions, signs and labels, or UI messages like "Loading…".

  • Non-verbal sounds: lines like [Car honks], [Laughter] or [Music starts], so the original sound effect is kept instead of being read out.

  • Speaker not decided yet: keep working while your team decides who speaks a line or a new voice is being uploaded.

  • Clean-up: when you're resetting speaker assignments across many lines, for example before deleting a speaker or during a quality check. You can change many lines at once with bulk edits.

💡 Tip: before exporting, check that every line that should be spoken has a speaker, and that only the lines you want silent are set to No Speaker.

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