Three AI audio tactics that can help you sell more
Use ElevenLabs and Google Lyria 3 to test voiceovers, turn newsletters into audio briefs, and create branded jingles that increase engagement.
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You spend a week perfecting your video and copy. Then you spend about four minutes slapping on a generic voiceover. Big mistake.
The voice shapes how your audience perceives your ad. It can be just as powerful as your headline or your opening three seconds.
The exact same creative can sound like a clearance-bin fire sale or a premium, members-only product. The narrator sets the rules.
AI audio gives us something we’ve needed for a long time: the ability to rapidly test voice, tone, and sonic branding.
You don’t have to book a studio, coordinate with a voice actor, or wait three business days for a file that’s slightly too quiet. Here are three tactics you can put to work right now.
Test different voiceovers for the same ad
The voiceover is a creative variable that marketers miss. It directly shapes the pacing, credibility, and emotional register of your entire asset, but you’ll often overlook it.
A calm, measured voice might be exactly right for a premium brand. An energetic delivery might be what closes the deal on a promo offer. A “founder voice”, conversational, slightly unpolished can do heavy lifting for a product that requires real trust.
The core advantage of TTS is that we can test all of these without booking a single studio session.
Instead of chasing the “perfect” voiceover out of the gate, treat the voice as a variable in an A/B test. Keep the visuals, the editing, and the copy locked. Change only the voice.
This isolates the variable and makes it much easier to diagnose whether a weak ad is a message problem, a pacing problem, or simply a delivery problem.
Do it now:
- Pick one existing ad: Pull an ad you’ve already built using AI.
- Use our prompt as your baseline: Generate your test versions from this script:
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- Generate several versions: Produce a few audio takes in completely different styles: tone, energy, pace, and register.
- Lock everything else: Keep the visuals, CTA, and ad length identical across every version.
- Run them as separate ads: Each voice variation gets its own placement.
- Measure what matters: Compare CTR, view rate, watch time, and conversions across the board.
- Lock in the winner: Save the top-performing style as your definitive voice direction for future creatives.
The output: Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | Option 4
The voice used in our test recording is Orus.
To put the scale of this opportunity in perspective: a 2025 report projects the AI voice generator market will grow from $4.16B in 2025 to $20.71B in 2031. A 30.7% CAGR.
Turn your newsletter into a short audio briefing
Who says you need to read the newsletter. Especially when the content is dense and tactical.
Instead of asking your readers to scan a wall of text, fire up your TTS tool and convert your latest edition into a tight, 2–3 minute audio brief.
Think of it as a hybrid between a mini-podcast and a voice note from an expert friend who skipped the small talk. It’s a surprisingly underutilized format.
Your readers can catch it in the car, on a walk, or between meetings. And in the process, you’re building a more personal, human connection with your brand than a block of text ever could.
Step by step:
- Take your finalized newsletter draft: Start with the version that’s ready to send.
- Condense it to 350–450 words: Ruthless editing is the job here.
- Keep only what matters: The most important topics and core examples stay. Everything else goes.
- Add a brief intro and outro: Make them recognizable and consistent across every edition.
- Generate the audio with a consistent voice style: This is how you build a sonic brand identity over time.
- Embed the audio at the top of your email: Link or file, either works. Put it where readers see it first.
- Repurpose the audio: Drop that same track as a background for a Short, a Reel, or a LinkedIn post.
Here is an example of our prompt:
[calm intro] Welcome to AI Radar Brief — your quick audio rundown of the most interesting signals from the world of artificial intelligence.[short pause] [confident] Today: AI-generated worlds, self-replicating agents, DeepMind’s math assistant, and AI helping astronomers discover new planets.[read more…]
Pro tip: By selecting the “energetic co-host podcast style conversation” prompt or setting in your AI audio tool, you can generate a dynamic dialogue between two characters.
It’s a frictionless way to launch your own automated podcast without producing a single episode from scratch.
Create a brand song using Lyria 3
AI audio doesn’t stop at voiceovers. One of the most interesting emerging use cases is generating short songs, jingles, and sonic brand motifs.
Tools like Google’s Lyria 3 let you rapidly test musical directions during the early concept phase.
And to be clear: you don’t need to aim for the Billboard Hot 100 here. The goal is to develop a specific, repeatable sound that people instantly associate with your business.
For Tactics, we could create a short track that reinforces the newsletter’s positioning: practical AI workflows, less hype, more action, and a competitive edge for marketers.
That snippet can act as an intro for an audio briefing, background music for Shorts, a video outro, or a core element of a promo campaign.
The key is that the song isn’t random. It has to sell the brand’s personality.
The Playbook:
- Define exactly what your brand should sound and feel like.
- Pick a few core phrases that absolutely must appear in the lyrics.
- Choose a musical genre that resonates with your target audience.
- Generate a few different versions of the track.
- Cut the best 10–15 seconds to use as a standalone jingle.
- Test it across your Shorts, ads, and audio briefings.
- Save the winning track as a permanent piece of your sonic branding.
Here is an example of our prompt:
Create a modern, catchy brand song for an AI newsletter called “Tactics”. Brand context: Tactics is a weekly newsletter about the newest AI tools and practical AI strategies. It is created mainly for marketers, founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and people managing companies. [read more…]
And you can listen to the banger output here.
Pro tip: You can use video generation models like VEO 3.1 or Seedance 2 to create a music video using your new song, which strengthens the message.
The sounds that matter
If there’s one thing these tactics have in common, it’s this: audio is your strategic lever that most of your competitors still treat like an afterthought. Here’s the short version:
- Treat voice like a creative asset: Test three different TTS styles on the exact same video and measure the hard impact on your CTR and conversions.
- Turn your newsletter into an audio brief: Win back busy readers by giving them a punchy 3-minute track to play in the car instead of a wall of text to scan at their desk.
- Build your sonic DNA: Generate a short jingle with Lyria 3 to tie your ads and Shorts together — no composer budget required.
Happy generating.
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