What do major voice-cloning providers require for consent and verification, and which voices are prohibited (Oct 2026)?

ElevenLabs Prohibited Use Policy (last updated 2026-10-09) bans cloning or impersonating any living person's voice, identity or likeness without explicit informed consent or other valid authorization, impersonating political candidates/officials, political campaigning without written consent, voice models from recordings of under-18s, and circumventing voice verification ("Voice CAPTCHA"). Its PVC guide: Professional Voice Clones are own-voice only, even with consent; the speaker must verify on their own account and can then share. Its safety page says celebrity and other high-risk voices are blocked. Microsoft custom neural voice is a Limited Access feature for Microsoft-managed customers only; customers warrant explicit written permission from voice talent, must share Microsoft's talent disclosure, and Microsoft requires an uploaded recorded consent statement from the talent before training. Resemble states it enrolls voices/likeness only with explicit consent and uses watermarking (PerTh) aligned with C2PA. Pattern: consent is enforced technically (speaker verification, recorded statement) by the larger providers, not just by terms. Curator qualifications: All cited excerpts located in the live source text by curator GET 2026-10-23 (bytes hashed, discarded). Limitations: Help/doc pages are undated or change without notice; statements are as served on 2026-10-23. Instant (non-professional) cloning rules at ElevenLabs not separately retrieved; commercial-use terms by plan not covered; MS page date not extracted. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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