Questions and answers

Windows, with FiveM first.

FiveM, the first game Voice Takeover is made for, runs only on Windows, and the app works as a microphone on your Windows PC.

A Windows PC with FiveM, the Voice Takeover app and a Stripe account of your own so viewers can pay you. The installer also installs VB-CABLE, the virtual microphone the app uses, and a one-click setup points FiveM's voice chat at it. The setup can be undone. Being easy to set up for streamers who are not audio experts is the first goal.

It works through the game's normal voice chat, so there is no server mod to install. Check your server's rules before you use it: many roleplay servers have rules about breaking character.

That depends on the server. Many roleplay servers have rules against breaking character and against using things from the stream in the game, and a viewer's line can look like either. Read your server's rules and ask its staff before you use it. You are responsible for following them, and you can make each message wait for your OK, so you can turn down a line that would break one.

No. Nothing is installed on the server and the game's files are not changed. To FiveM, Voice Takeover is just a microphone.

FiveM comes first. Because the app works as a microphone, other games with voice chat may follow later, but none is promised yet.

It's an AI clone of your own voice, made with your consent. It isn't a recording of you, and it is only used to speak the messages your viewers send.

In the app you read what will happen to your voice and tick that you agree. Then you read one sentence aloud with your name, the date and a four-digit number that changes each time, and the recording is checked against that sentence. You also type your full legal name as written consent. Only after that can a copy of your voice be made.

No. Only your own voice can be used, recorded by you. There is no public page where anyone can try your voice: it is only used to speak messages sent to you.

Until your copy is ready, or if it ever fails, a stock AI voice speaks the message instead.

Yes. You can delete your voice, your recordings and the copy at any time, from the app or the dashboard. The privacy notice lists what is kept and for how long.

Every message is checked before the viewer pays: first by fixed rules (for example for slurs, links, phone numbers and email addresses), then by an automatic safety check for hate, harassment, sexual content, threats and personal data. It is tuned so that normal roleplay lines are not blocked just for being violent. You can add your own blocked words and pick a filter level: Roleplay or Family-friendly. If the check cannot run, no message is taken and nobody is charged.

Yes, if you want to. You choose whether each message waits for your OK. A card with the whole message shows over your game, Page Up says yes and Page Down says no. A message you turn down, or do not answer in time, is not charged.

Automatic checks make mistakes, so you keep your own controls: the Panic key stops the voice and pauses the line at once, Hold keeps messages waiting and Skip drops the one that is playing. A message that breaks the content policy can be reported to hello@voicetakeover.com, and a charged payment for it is refunded.

Your donation page, which shows whether takeovers are open, paused or closed. The viewer types a message, is told at once if it is turned away and why, and pays on Stripe's page. An optional overlay for your stream shows the donation with an "AI voice" label, so your audience knows the voice is AI.

Only if the message plays. When the viewer pays, the bank only holds the amount. If the message plays within 5 minutes, it is charged. If it does not play in time, or the streamer skips it, or the app stops, the hold is cancelled and the viewer pays nothing.

A message that played cannot be taken back, so it is normally not refunded. A charged payment is refunded in full if the message did not play, was charged twice, was paid without the card owner's permission, was not the message sent, or broke the content policy. The refunds page has the details and how to ask.

The streamer. The viewer pays the streamer's own Stripe account, and the streamer is the seller. Voice Takeover never sees or stores card numbers.

Not decided yet. People on the waitlist hear first.

A free mode is planned: a streamer can let signed-in viewers send free messages, with limits the streamer sets. When it comes is not decided yet.

It's in development and there is no date yet. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when it's ready.

Not yet. Voice Takeover is being built and tested, and only the waitlist is open. No payment is taken on this site today.