# Responsible Use

Voicebox is a local-first AI voice studio. It can clone voices from short audio samples, generate speech, and make AI agents speak through voice profiles. That capability is useful for accessibility, creative production, prototyping, game development, and personal tools, but it can also be misused.

Voicebox does not and cannot independently verify who owns a voice sample. You are responsible for making sure you have the right to use every voice you clone, import, or generate with.

## Allowed Uses

- Cloning your own voice.
- Cloning a voice with explicit permission from the speaker.
- Using licensed, public-domain, or otherwise legally authorized voice material.
- Building accessibility tools, creative projects, games, podcasts, prototypes, and local workflows where the speaker's rights are respected.

## Prohibited Uses

- Impersonating someone without permission.
- Fraud, scams, phishing, social engineering, or bypassing voice authentication.
- Harassment, threats, intimidation, or non-consensual sexual content.
- Misleading political, legal, financial, medical, or emergency communications.
- Commercial use of a person's voice without the legal right to do so.
- Removing or bypassing responsible-use acknowledgements in order to misuse the software.

## Disclosure And Compliance

If you publish or distribute synthetic audio, disclose that it is AI-generated where required by law, platform policy, or audience expectations. Developers building products on top of Voicebox should treat consent records, disclosure, and jurisdiction-specific requirements as part of their own application design.

Voicebox runs locally to protect user privacy. That privacy model does not remove your responsibility to respect other people's voices.
