Manage characters: edit, archive and delete

This page covers everything after you create a character. For the section overview, see Characters and Voices; to make one, see Creating a character.

The Characters page

Click Characters in the sidebar, then the My Characters tab. Each row shows the avatar and name, a backstory preview, a voice play button, the creation date and an actions menu. Click a row to open the character's detail page.

The voice column shows one of these:

• Voice Clone: the voice was cloned from audio samples. See Voice cloning.
• Guest Clone: a cloned-voice character flagged as a guest. It becomes a regular Voice Clone when you promote an episode's hosts to the podcast's regulars. Clones recorded through a guest invite show Voice Clone.
• The voice description, for Voice Library and designed voices.
• Voice unavailable: the provider has withdrawn the voice (see When a voice becomes unavailable).

Search and filter

The search bar matches a character's name, backstory or voice (for example "British", "Female" or a word from a voice description). Search stays within the selected status but ignores the voice filters, so a standing filter never hides the character you are looking for. Click the x to clear the search.

The Filters button holds Status and Gender. Status defaults to Active; choose Archived or All to include archived characters, which carry an Archived badge. Gender appears once your characters have more than one.

Below the search bar, Language and Accent dropdowns and the voice-kind chips (Voice clones, Designed, Library) narrow by voice. Each appears only when it has something to choose between. They work like the filters in Browsing the Voice Library.

Character details

The Character Details page shows the avatar, name, title and backstory, plus these cards:

• Voice: a play button to preview the voice.
• Active Podcasts: the podcasts that use the character, when there are any.
• Personality Profile: shown once the character has a personality.

Edit a character

Open the actions menu (three dots) on the detail page or in the table, then select Edit Character. The same dialog used to create a character opens pre-filled with the avatar, name, title, description, personality and voice. Change what you need, then click Save changes. Archived characters cannot be edited: unarchive first.

Pick any Voice Library voice to change the character's voice. A character with a cloned voice keeps it unless you pick a library voice, and shows a Voice style setting: More Consistent stays closest to the recorded voice, More Expressive is more emotive and supports audio tags. To give a character a new cloned voice, create it from the Voices page: see Voice Cloning.

Archiving or deleting a character

1. Open the actions menu on the detail page or in the table.
2. Select Archive Character or Delete Character.
3. Confirm with Confirm Archive or Confirm Deletion, or select Cancel to keep the character.

The menu shows Delete Character for an unused character and Archive Character for one used in existing content. A character used in existing content can only be archived, not deleted. Archiving hides the character from the default Active view and from new character pickers, and keeps its scripts, media, podcast assignments and voice. Deleting an unused character is permanent and cannot be undone.

To restore an archived character, set Status to Archived or All, then select Unarchive Character (also available on its detail page). It returns to Active and can be picked again.

Unarchiving needs a free character slot on your plan and a voice that still exists. Archived characters do not use a slot. If you are at your plan's limit, archive or delete another character first, or see plan limits. If the voice is gone, the unarchive fails with a message saying so.

When a voice becomes unavailable

Voice Library voices are occasionally withdrawn by their provider. Jellypod marks the voice unavailable when the provider reports it removed or when audio generation with it fails, so you never need to report it.

Once marked unavailable:

• The character shows a Voice unavailable badge on the Characters page, and its detail page shows a Voice unavailable alert above the voice card with a Pick a new voice link that opens Edit Character.
• Character and host pickers show the character disabled with a Voice unavailable badge, so it cannot be added to new content. A podcast that already has the character keeps it, and you can still remove it from that podcast.
• Starting generation with that character is blocked up front with a message asking you to pick a new voice, instead of failing partway.

To fix it, click Pick a new voice, or edit the character and choose a new Voice Library voice or a fresh voice clone.