Nov 2025ShippedLaunch month
VocalLab goes live
- Core text-to-speech engine and the first professional voice library
- Accounts, magic-link sign-in and subscriptions
- The very first version ships — the product is real and public
Roadmap
From day one to what's next
Everything we've shipped since launching in November 2025, and where we're taking VocalLab through 2029. This is the direction we're building in — a plan we keep honest, not a promise that every item lands on an exact date.
ShippedIn progressPlanned
- Dec 2025ShippedFirst paying customer
Product Hunt launch & first paying customer
- Featured on Product Hunt — the first big wave of creators
- Our first paying subscription — VocalLab becomes a real business
- Voice sharing, karaoke-style captions and SRT export for TikTok & YouTube
- Mar 2026ShippedStudio editor
Multi-voice editor & the first new languages
- A multi-voice narration editor for long-form projects
- Spanish and German added — the product starts speaking more languages
- Featured on There's An AI For That and dofollow.tools
- Apr 2026ShippedRecognized across launch platforms
Award season
- #1 Product of the Day on Open-Launch
- Trending on PeerPush
- #4 Product of the Day on Fazier
- Engine scaled: priority queue, chunk caching and failure recovery
- Jun 2026ShippedBuilt for developers
Developer API, hosted MCP & AI support
- Public developer API and a hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor and VS Code, with API keys and usage history
- AI support assistant for live chat and email, grounded in our help center
- The site in 8 languages (added French, Portuguese, Korean and Italian)
- Product of the Day on SaaSHub
- Jul 2026ShippedA dedicated workspace
VocalLab Studio, voice steering & speech to text
- VocalLab Studio — one fast workspace for speech, voice design, cloning and audiobooks
- A steerable voice model: direct the read in plain English and add tags like [whisper], [laugh] or [sigh]
- Speech to Text with automatic language detection across 25+ languages
- Voice Design persona presets and an Improve button that turns a rough idea into a detailed prompt
- Team workspaces with seats and a shared points pool
- Ebook import for audiobooks, with automatic chapters and character casting
- AppSumo lifetime deal launched
- Aug 2026ShippedNew ways to create
Video dubbing, Podcast Studio & a free demo
- Video dubbing — translate and re-voice a video, export MP4 and SRT, or bring your own subtitles
- Podcast Studio — turn a topic or document into an editable two-host script and episode
- A free, no-sign-up demo on the homepage: speech with steering, cloning, voice design and transcription
- Voice cloning and voice design in the API and MCP
- Private voices inside team workspaces
- Audiobook delivery as ZIP or M4B with chapter markers and loudness normalisation
- More natural reading of Traditional Chinese text
- Sep 2026ShippedDeeper workflows
Professional cloning, saved shows & more ebook formats
- Professional Voice Cloning beta — a studio-grade clone trained on longer recordings
- Saved podcast shows you can reuse for every episode, plus a two-host podcast demo on the site
- Ebook import for 10 formats, including EPUB, DOCX, MOBI and AZW3
- Units like °C and °F read out correctly in every language
- Attribute chips in Voice Design, and a cost preview before generating a chapter or a whole book
- Oct 2026ShippedShipping continuously
A new Studio design & pronunciation templates
- A redesigned, calmer Studio with a guided product tour for new accounts
- Achievements that unlock as you explore the Studio
- Reusable pronunciation templates for names, brands and terms, applied across audiobook projects
- Smoother dubbing: split sentences read as one line, music ducking and background export
- A security-hardening release across the whole platform
- NowIn progressNext up
What we're building next
- Bulk text to speech — paste many lines, get one audio file for each
- Sound effects and music on the audiobook timeline
- Native iOS and Android apps
- Ongoing speed, reliability and quality improvements
- 2027PlannedCreate anywhere
Mobile apps, voice localization & live voice
- Native iOS & Android apps — the full create-edit-export cycle on your phone
- Voice localization — teach a cloned or designed voice to speak more languages
- Realtime voice agents — low-latency, two-way spoken conversations
- A voice changer — re-voice your own recording in another voice
- Consent-based voice sharing for creators — opt-in public and shareable voices
- More dedicated B2B servers as we take on additional business customers
- 2028PlannedCreate together
Scale & collaboration
- Advanced API analytics and reporting
- More languages and expanded multilingual workflows
- Under consideration: an opt-in marketplace for verified, consent-based user-created voices
- 2029PlannedVoice you can rely on
An established voice platform
- A mature creator voice market with broad third-party integrations
- Enterprise-grade reliability, speed and quality across the board
- A go-to platform for accessible, responsible AI voice
In progress
VocalLab in your pocket
Native iOS and Android apps are in development, so you can run the entire workflow from your phone — no desktop required.
- Coming soon toApp Store
- Coming soon toGoogle Play
- Generate, edit and export — the full cycle from your phone
- All subscriptions carry over, including the AppSumo lifetime plan
- Manage voices, clones and projects on the go
Always improving
The work that never stops
Alongside new features, these are the dimensions we push on every single month.
Speed
Lower latency and faster long-form generation as we tune the pipeline and infrastructure.Quality
More natural, expressive and consistent output across voices and languages.Curated catalogue
A better-curated professional catalogue, with new voices added when licensing, quality and commercial-use requirements are satisfied.Reliability
Queue management, failure recovery and monitoring so generation just works.Languages
More UI and voice languages, with better multilingual pronunciation.More customers
Serving more creators and B2B teams as the platform scales.
Pricing & offers
Lock in today's pricing
We're transparent about where pricing is headed — so early customers can make an informed choice.
AppSumo lifetime deal
LimitedPay once for lifetime access to the VocalLab AppSumo Select Plan for the operational lifetime of VocalLab, with the recurring monthly allowance and features stated in the applicable AppSumo offer.
Current plans
- FreeGet started, no card required$0
- Lite3,000 points (~50 min) a month$4 first monththen $9/mo
- Pro12,000 points (~200 min) a month$9 first monththen $24/mo
- Max150,000 points (~2,500 min) a month · 5 team seats$99 first monththen $299/mo
- EnterpriseDedicated B2B servers, pay-as-you-goCustom
Future pricing
Subscription and top-up pricing may increase as the product, infrastructure and included capabilities expand. Existing customers retain the billing price and core plan entitlements promised at purchase, subject to the applicable plan terms.
- Pricing may rise as capabilities, infrastructure and included features expand
- Concrete new prices are published only once an increase date is confirmed
- Existing customers keep the pricing protections stated in their plan terms
Built with our early supporters
AppSumo purchases help VocalLab fund infrastructure, product development, support and new voice workflows. AppSumo customers receive the software access and plan benefits stated in their offer. The purchase is not an investment and does not provide equity, ownership, revenue participation or financial returns.
Generating voice at scale?
Our B2B offering can provision dedicated servers with pay-as-you-go pricing for companies that need high, predictable throughput. Available for qualifying business customers and designed for production workloads — reach out and we'll size a setup for you.
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We build in the open and ship every month. Start creating today, or tell us what you want to see next.
Last updated October 2026 — we update this page as features ship and priorities change.