Make a new speaker, who is not you
A person who does not exist, made to your description. Nobody real is involved, so there is nothing to clear and nobody to ask.
You are not choosing from a catalogue, you are writing a description. "A Salvadoran woman of about forty, warm, in a light blouse, plain background." Ask for three, look at them side by side, keep one. Nobody real is involved, so there is nothing to clear and nobody to ask.
| Where to make the face | Cost | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio — aistudio.google.com | free daily quota | The default. Try variants by hand, keep the one you like. |
| The Gemini image API | fractions of a centime | The same, from a session, in batches of three. |
| Krea, Ideogram, Flux | free tiers | A different look when every Gemini face feels alike. |
| generated.photos | paid, licensed | A catalogue you filter by age, gender and ethnicity, when you would rather pick than describe. |
Do not use a stock photo of a real person. Unsplash, Pexels, Freepik, Adobe Stock and Getty licences generally forbid making a model appear to speak, endorse or represent something — which is exactly what a speaker does. A face found through an image search is a lead, never a source.
A historical figure is the exception. A portrait in the public domain can be used directly: search Wikimedia Commons through its API, and search the painter's name as well as the sitter's — that is what surfaces the museum-grade copies. Proven on Rousseau.
Then the master clip is generated from that face on a green background — Grok Imagine, 15 seconds, $1.21, bought once. For an invented person, generating the movement is correct: they have no manner yet, so a model inventing one is exactly what you want.
And the voice? They have none, so you pick one from a library, or clone a voice you have permission to use. The recording step of choice 03 does not apply.
Start here
Open Claude Code and say this. It will ask which of the three you want, then take you through it.
Use make-your-speaker. Guide me step by step, I have never done this.
If you do not have our assistants yet, install them first:
npx skills add gfrankgva/studio-skills
The sizes, what a speaker can do, what it costs and how it is finished are the same for all three, and live on 
the Speakers page.