LOVO and Genny have closed
If your Genny projects stopped loading, that is not your account. The company is in liquidation. Here is what happened, what you can still recover, and — because of how this one ended — what to ask of whichever platform you move to next.
What happened
LOVO Inc. filed for Chapter 7 — liquidation, not restructuring — on 27 May 2026. A voice-actor class action against the company, Lehrman v. Lovo Inc. in the Southern District of New York, was still live at the time and was stayed on the bankruptcy notice. The allegations in that case were never tried: a stay is a pause, not a finding, and nothing about them has been established either way.
lovo.ai still resolves, but its host answers HTTP 402 Payment Required with the body DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED — a deployment switched off for non-payment, not a maintenance window. Checked 2026-09-03. We do not print a date for the stay order, because the sources we could reach disagree on it; the filing date above is a docket fact.
- news.bloomberglaw.com — read 2026-09-03
- www.thestreet.com — read 2026-09-02
- lovo.ai — read 2026-09-03
The question worth asking your next platform
A cloning platform failing while defending a voice-rights suit is a specific kind of warning, and the reasonable response is not to distrust synthetic voice — it is to ask any vendor three concrete questions before you rebuild. Ours are answered below, and you should put the same three to anyone else on your shortlist.
What do you require before I clone a voice?
That it is your own voice, that you have the speaker's explicit permission, or that the material is otherwise legally authorised. You accept that the first time you use the studio and we keep the acceptance as an auditable record.
What am I allowed to do with the audio?
You own what you generate; we claim no ownership of it. Commercial use is carried by VoiceLabs Pro, and a free account is for personal use. It is set out per plan rather than buried in a licence.
What happens if someone clones me without asking?
A report goes to a person with a 48-hour triage target, not to an automated filter — and the decision that follows is documented, appealable, and answered by a human.
How to rebuild, in order
- 01Gather the original recordings. The human recording, not the Genny output. A clone rebuilt from synthetic audio compounds artefacts, and it detaches the voice from the consent you originally had.
- 02Put the permission in writing, if it is not already. For any voice that is not your own: who the speaker is, what they agreed to, and when. It costs an email and it is the difference between a takedown you can answer and one you cannot.
- 03Re-clone, and re-cast the stock voices. Custom voices come back from the samples. LOVO's preset catalogue is not ours, so anything narrated by one of their stock voices needs a new voice chosen — decide that before regenerating a library.
- 04Re-generate and download everything. Then keep the files. The one lesson both closures in this market teach is that the copy on your own disk is the only one nobody can switch off.
What maps to what
| DIMENSION | VoiceLabs | LOVO / Genny, until it closed |
|---|---|---|
| Cloned voices | Instant cloning from a short reference clip, planned at launch. You will need the original human recording again — no platform can import another's clone, because the weights were never portable. | Custom voices held inside the Genny account, and unreachable once the deployment went down. |
| Consent record | You affirm, before you use the studio, that every voice you clone is your own, is used with the speaker's explicit permission, or is otherwise legally authorised. That acceptance is recorded against your account and kept as an auditable record. | We make no claim about what LOVO did or did not record. The class action against it was stayed rather than decided, so nothing about it has been established either way. |
| What you may do with the output | You own the audio you generate; we claim no ownership of it. Commercial use is what VoiceLabs Pro carries — a free account is for personal use. The audio rights page sets that out per plan. | Governed by terms that ceased to have a live counterparty. |
| If someone clones a voice they should not have | A reporting form that goes to a person, not a filter, with a 48-hour triage target, and a moderation page that documents what happens next and how to appeal a decision that went against you. | Not applicable — there is no longer an operator to report to. |
| Disclosure of synthetic audio | An inaudible, machine-readable watermark is embedded in generated audio, consistent with EU AI Act Article 50, and our policy asks you to disclose AI-generated audio where law or platform policy requires it. | Not stated here — we did not verify their policy and will not guess at it. |
| Your saved audio | Downloadable the moment it is generated, on any account. Keeping your own copy is the only migration plan that survives an operator failing — ours included. | Inside the account, and inaccessible with it. |
Where else to go
We are pre-launch, and someone who has just lost a working studio deserves the list rather than a pitch. ElevenLabs is the category leader and ships today; Murf is the closest thing to Genny’s project-and-timeline shape; and Fish Audio has the most generous free tier in this market if your budget just became uncertain. VoiceLabs, once the studio ships, is one flat $8 a month for 2 hours of generated audio, with cloning included and downloads never withheld.
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