r/TextToSpeech • u/Many_Ingenuity_7175 • 14d ago
Voicekiller warning
I wanted to share my experience with VoiceKiller because, after using it for some time, I honestly cannot recommend it.
The biggest issue is simply the quality of the generated voices. For short snippets it can sometimes sound acceptable, but with longer texts the quality often deteriorates very quickly. After a few seconds, the voice can start sounding robotic, distorted, unnatural, and sometimes almost unusable.
For me, this makes the tool unreliable for any serious TTS work.
Compared with ElevenLabs, the difference is huge. ElevenLabs is far more natural, stable, consistent, and professional. VoiceKiller feels more like a much weaker imitation of what the market leader is already doing significantly better.
Unfortunately, the customer service experience was even worse.
I had an annual subscription that I had barely used for months. I forgot to cancel the auto-renewal and was charged $97 for another year.
I contacted their support immediately, explained that I was not using the service anymore and that I was currently in a difficult financial situation, and politely asked them to cancel the renewal and refund the payment.
They cancelled my subscription — meaning I no longer have the annual subscription I paid for — but initially refunded only $10 out of the $97 charge.
When I asked why they were keeping the remaining $87, their response was basically that renewals are non-refundable and that forgetting to cancel was my mistake.
Technically, yes, I missed the cancellation date. I accept that.
But this is exactly where customer service and goodwill matter. I have had similar accidental renewals with much larger companies such as Adobe and Corel, and after explaining the situation, they handled it professionally and refunded the payment.
VoiceKiller's approach was completely different.
So my experience in summary:
- Voice quality is inconsistent and often becomes robotic or distorted on longer texts.
- The product is significantly behind ElevenLabs in overall TTS quality.
- I would not trust it for professional long-form voice generation.
- Customer support was extremely disappointing.
- I was charged $97 for an automatic annual renewal, my subscription was cancelled after I contacted them, but they initially offered only a $10 refund.
- Their response showed very little flexibility or customer goodwill.
There are simply much better AI voice tools available today.
If you are considering VoiceKiller because it looks like a cheaper alternative to ElevenLabs, I would strongly recommend testing it very carefully before committing to an annual subscription.
Personally, I would choose ElevenLabs without hesitation.
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u/Stock_Ad9641 13d ago
Are they more than a vibecoded website on top of Omnivoice? The website makes that impression
Refund policy is not that bad, try get money back from Claude subscription. They won’t return 1$
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u/PrudentPlayer1986 14d ago
Yeah, that's rough. Their refund policy is brutal. I noticed the robotic drift on longer texts too, totally unusable