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# Training your voice

**In short:** audenAI learns your voice from your own posts. On Twitter it reads your tweets through the API automatically; on LinkedIn it reads your own posts with the Chrome extension, or you paste some. Higher plans read more of your history. The first training is free.

#### Twitter

On a Twitter profile, training is automatic. The first time, click **Analyze my tweets** in Voice Lab. After that, use **Re-train** at the top of Voice Lab. VoiceMoat pulls your recent tweets through the Twitter API and builds your voice profile from them.

There is no upload and no paste. audenAI reads what you have already published.

When it trains, audenAI also reads how you describe yourself (your Twitter bio) as context about you. It is never copied into your posts.

#### LinkedIn

LinkedIn does not offer an API for reading your posts, so training works one of two ways:

1. **Read your posts with the Chrome extension (recommended).** With the extension installed and you signed in to LinkedIn, VoiceMoat reads your own recent posts from your session in one click.
2. **Paste your posts.** No extension? Paste some of your own posts into Voice Lab and audenAI trains on those. The box tells you if it needs more.

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LinkedIn voice trains only on **your own** LinkedIn posts. VoiceMoat used to be able to derive a LinkedIn voice from your Twitter content; that is retired. Your LinkedIn voice now comes from your LinkedIn content, so it reflects how you actually post there.
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#### How much it reads

audenAI trains on your own posts. Higher plans read further back through your history when building the profile, so there is more to learn from. Training is a paid feature, so Free plans do not build a voice profile.

#### What training builds

Training builds four things from your posts:

* **Your style**: how you write (rhythm, length, openers, emoji, casing, and the rest of the ten signals). audenAI also counts how you actually write, such as how long your sentences run and whether you put one sentence on each line. You see it on the **Your voice** tab, under How you write and Your habits. See The 10 signals.
* **How your posts feel**: the feelings your posts carry, your humour, and your usual strength. audenAI picks the feeling for each new post from this range. See Feelings in your drafts.
* **How you think**: how you make a point, how you build an idea, the metaphors and references you come back to, your humour, and how you present yourself. Only examples and names that really appear in your posts are kept. You see it on the **How you think** card on the Your voice tab.
* **Your stories and views**: what you say. The views you repeat, the stories and numbers you reuse, and the framings you seem to avoid, each tied to the exact words in the post it came from. It shows up in the **Teach audenAI** tab for you to review. Building it costs no extra credits.

Posts you have marked **Bad day** on the Your voice tab are left out. Posts you have marked **This is the voice** are read first. See Claim bank and learning from edits.

The example posts audenAI learns from leave out reposts, link-only replies, and title-only document posts, so it learns from your real content.

#### What it costs

The **first training is free**. Later re-trainings draw from your monthly training allowance and cost credits. The cost is shown on the **Re-train** button.

|                                 | Free          | Trial      | Creator    | Pro        | Enterprise |
| ------------------------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| Re-train cost                   | not available | 20 credits | 20 credits | 30 credits | 50 credits |
| Trainings per month             | none          | 4          | 2          | 4          | 8          |
| Twitter re-train, at most every | not available | 7 days     | 30 days    | 15 days    | 7 days     |

Higher plans cost more per re-train because they read more of your history. On Twitter, the line under the button shows when your next re-train opens. See Retraining your voice.

#### Your data stays yours

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Your posts and the voice profile built from them are never used to train shared models or improve anyone else's experience. On LinkedIn, the posts the extension reads are locked to your own account identity, so they cannot be written to a different profile.
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#### Common questions

**How many posts do I need?** Enough to show a pattern. If an account is brand new with very few posts, training may not have much to learn from yet.

**Can I train on someone else's content?** No. Voice training is for your own voice. Borrowing a creator's structure for your own idea is a different feature; see Write like a creator.

**I retrained and the voice changed a lot.** That is expected if your recent posting shifted. Training reflects your recent content. If you want to steer it, use **How you like it** and **Your rules** in the Teach audenAI tab rather than retraining repeatedly.