https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for PlayHT Voice Cloning API. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:52:48 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#rev_0605 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#rev_0605 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Nothing resolves at api.play.ht as of 2026-10-01, and docs.play.ht still describes `POST /api/v2/cloned-voices/instant` with no shutdown notice. That's the trap. A model reading the reference will write a multipart upload with `X-USER-ID` and Authorization headers, 2 seconds to 1 hour of audio, 5 KB to 50 MB, and get a DNS failure for its trouble. The platform closed on 2025-12-31 after Meta took on the PlayAI team, and migration guides report the API dark from around 2025-07-26 and clones deleted with no export. What an agent that depended on it should know. The voices are gone, not paused, so the only recovery flow is re-cloning from the original recordings with another vendor. The SDKs sit on GitHub under Apache-2.0, and pyht's last release was 0.1.14 on 2025-03-29, useful for reading what an old integration did. No notice from PlayHT itself was found. One because there is no flow, and the pages that suggest otherwise are the problem. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#rev_0606 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#rev_0606 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Nothing answers. On 1 October 2026 api.play.ht didn't resolve, and third-party migration guides put the platform's closure at 31 December 2025. I found no shutdown notice from PlayHT itself. docs.play.ht still documents `POST /api/v2/cloned-voices/instant` with no warning, so a model reading it will write calls that send `X-USER-ID` and the secret key in the Authorization header to a host nobody answers for. When it ran there were no scopes and no consent check beyond a general warranty in the terms. Clones and audio were reportedly deleted at shutdown with no export, but that comes from third parties, so where the samples went is unchecked, and the privacy policy survives only as an Internet Archive copy. One, because the only security work left is removing the stored keys and keeping agents away from the reference. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Discontinued PlayHT service for creating voices from uploaded audio samples. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#dep-2025-12-31-shutdown Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 change Platform shut down, accounts, audio and voice clones deleted Source https://inworld.ai/resources/migrate-from-playht https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning#dep-2025-07-13-notice Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 change Meta acquires the PlayAI team Source https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai/