Altered review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Real-time voice changer, accent translation and voice studio
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Altered report card
Good · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for changing your voice live on calls
Altered changes your voice in real time and can translate accents, running on your own computer. The cheaper and free tiers need you to let it train on your anonymized voice data, and the real-time part needs a machine with 8 or more cores.
Who Altered is for
- Fits if you want a different voice on Discord or in games
- Works for a call center that wants accent translation on live calls
Who Altered is not for
- Not for you if you won't let it train on your voice, since the cheapest and free tiers require it
- Tight if you stay free: 20 minutes of processing a day
- Watch out: real-time use suits a machine with 8 or more cores, as it runs on your CPU
- Watch out: Altered Studio is a separate product, and the site footer still shows 2022-2023
- Skip it if you want a phone app, as none is listed
Why Altered gets a 2.6
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- AValue for moneyVoice Skins is $2.50 a month billed yearly ($5 monthly), under 60% of the category's cheapest quarter of $5. The $10 plans for accent translation or voice restoration are $6 yearly if you accept the data terms.
- CFree plan and trialFree is 20 minutes of processing a day with Isolate and 4 voice skins daily, but it requires consent to anonymized voice data training.
- CFeaturesVoice skins, accent translation, speaker isolation, voice restoration and a studio. Altered Studio is a separate product with pricing we couldn't read.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. It needs audio routing into your call app, and a powerful enough computer.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWindows, Mac and web, with Discord, Zoom, Teams, Meet, Skype, WhatsApp and Minecraft. No phone apps are listed.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Altered's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/altered#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/altered.svg" alt="Altered: 2.6 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Altered stands among AI voice generators
Altered's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 39 of the 43 other AI voice generators we grade.
It stands best on value for money (A, above 41 of 43) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $2.50 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 1 of the 33 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 44 AI voice generators we grade, cut by the letter each got. Altered’s own letter is outlined.
- AValue for moneyAbove 41 of 43, level with 2
- CFree plan and trialAbove 12 of 43, level with 26
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 43, level with 26
- CEase of useAbove 7 of 43, level with 33
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 20 of 43, level with 21
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 34 AI voice generators. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Altered, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Altered you would be making a voice model trained on your recordings. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 39 of the 43 other AI voice generators we grade. It costs $30 a year.
What you could not
- A voice model trained on your recordings.
- A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make.
- Audio cleaned up live as you speak.
- Speech turned into text you can trust.
- A real app for macOS and Windows. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It plugs into other products, Discord, Zoom and Microsoft Teams among them.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
What this rests on. Altered’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Altered?
Altered makes a desktop real-time voice changer, Real-Time Pro, that works as a virtual microphone with voice skins, accent translation, speaker isolation and a voice-restoration model. It also runs Altered Studio, a separate voice production tool with speech-to-speech morphing, voice cloning and text to speech.
Worth knowing
- The cheapest and free tiers require consenting to anonymized voice data being used to improve Altered's models.
- Altered Studio is a separate product; its pricing was not readable on the pages we checked.
- Processing runs on your CPU; Altered says real-time use suits a machine with 8 or more cores.
- The site footer still shows a 2022-2023 copyright date, so some marketing text may lag the product.
Key features
- Real-time voice skins
- Changes both the timbre and the accent of your voice live through a virtual microphone any Windows or Mac app can select. The FAQ lists 20 voice skins.
- Accent translation
- Converts an accent to American or British English during calls while keeping the speaker's own voice; aimed at call centers.
- Speaker isolation
- Isolate suppresses background noise and competing speakers by locking on to the user's voiceprint.
- Euphonia voice restoration
- A real-time model for people with dysphonia and voice disfluencies, used in voice and video calls.
- Altered Studio
- A separate production tool for speech-to-speech morphing, text to speech in 70+ languages, transcription, translation and voice cloning from a few seconds of audio.
- Local or cloud processing
- Real-Time Pro processes audio on your own CPU, and can hand it to cloud servers in the US, EU or India for $2 per hour of daily quota per month.
Altered pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Altered has a free plan, and paid plans start at $2.50 per month, billed yearly ($5 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $2.50 per month, billed yearly ($5 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- 20 minutes of processing a day, Isolate speech enhancement and 4 voice skins each day, on AI Improvement Program terms.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 20 minutes of processing a day, Isolate models and 4 voice skins daily. Requires consent to anonymized voice data training. |
| Voice Skins | $2.50per month, billed yearly ($5 billed monthly) | 120 minutes of processing a day, all voice skins and Isolate models. On AI Improvement Program terms. |
| Call Center | $10per month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly) | Unlimited processing with accent translation, voice skins and Isolate; $6 yearly or $8 monthly on AI Improvement Program terms. |
| Euphonia | $10per month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly) | Unlimited processing with voice-restoration models, voice skins and Isolate; $6 yearly or $8 monthly on AI Improvement Program terms. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Priced per seat. Adds usage analytics, on-premise compute, SLA-backed uptime and priority support. Sold through sales. |
Read from altered.ai on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Altered before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountYearly billing saves up to 50%
Billed yearly, Real-Time Pro plans cost between half and five-sixths of the monthly rate, for example $2.50 against $5 a month for Voice Skins.
Stated on altered.ai
Works with
- Discord
- Zoom
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Meet
- Skype
- Minecraft
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Common questions
Does Altered have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Altered is listed for Windows, macOS and Web.
Does Altered have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Altered is listed for Windows, macOS and Web.
Is Altered open source?
Altered is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.