> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Speakers

> Speakers identify who's talking in your Descript transcript and enable text-to-speech and on-screen avatars.

A Speaker is a label that identifies who's talking in your project. At its simplest, it's just a name in your transcript, but it also enables speech generation and avatar features in Descript.

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* **A [label](/label) on its own** organizes your script. It marks who's talking throughout the transcript.
* **A label with an assigned voice** can generate speech with one of [Descript's stock voices](/ai-speech/stock-voices) or a [custom voice clone](/ai-speech/custom-speaker).
* **A label with an [avatar](/generative-media/overview)** puts a presenter on screen.

## Project Speakers and drive Speakers

Speakers exist at two levels:

* **Project Speakers** exist in the project where you created them.
* **Drive Speakers** are custom voice clones. Reuse them across projects, and share them with other drive members. They live in the **AI speakers** tab in Drive view, along with any speakers other members have shared with you.

## Working with Speakers

* **Add and manage speaker labels** — apply, move, rename, replace, and remove labels in your script
* Detect and label speakers in your transcript — let Descript find the voices in a recording
* Stock voices
* Create a voice clone
* Managing and sharing your AI Speakers — rename, share, and delete drive Speakers
* Generate text-to-speech audio
* Use Regenerate to change what was said
* Avatars
