Can you add your own voice to a Tuneliq song?

Tuneliq is a personalized song gift. Before the song plays, you can record a short spoken message, up to 60 seconds, in your own voice, and it sits at the front of the gift as an intro. The song itself is AI-composed and AI-sung; the intro is the one part that's literally you talking.

What is the recorded intro, exactly?

It's an optional spoken message you record and place at the start, before the first note. You record it in the app, say what you want, and it plays first when your person opens the gift. The cap is 60 seconds, which is shorter than it sounds, so it works best as a hello and not a speech. Plenty of people skip it. But if you've ever wanted the gift to open with your actual voice instead of jumping straight into music, that's what it's for.

Isn't that just a recordable greeting card?

Recordable cards exist, and they do one thing: hold a few seconds of you talking. Tuneliq is built the other way around. The gift is a whole song written for one person, with lyrics you edited and a melody composed to fit. The recorded intro is a small personal touch on top of that, not the point of the gift. If all you want is a card that plays a voice clip, a recordable card is cheaper and simpler, and honestly fine. Reach for the intro when there's a full song behind it and you want your own voice to introduce it.

I thought the song was AI-sung. So which voice is which?

Two different voices, and it's worth keeping them straight. The song's vocal is AI-composed and sung by a synthesized singer. It is not you singing, and it is not a copy of anyone's real voice. The recorded intro is the opposite: it's literally you, your real voice, saying a few words before the music starts. Tuneliq does not clone or imitate a voice anywhere. So the only place your actual voice shows up is the intro you record yourself.

What should you actually say in it?

Keep it short and plain, the way you'd start a voicemail. "Happy birthday, Mom. I wrote you something. Listen all the way through." Or the private joke only the two of you get, said once, the way you'd say it out loud. You don't need a script. The song already carries the words you worked on; the intro is just you, at the door, before you hand it over. A rough take in your own voice beats a smooth one that sounds rehearsed.

When does it help, and when should you skip it?

It helps when hearing you first makes the moment land harder — a parent who'd know your voice anywhere, someone far away you can't say it to in person. Skip it when the song says enough on its own, or when you'd rather it just play without a preamble. There's no wrong answer, and you can preview the whole thing, intro and song together, before you send it. A finished Tuneliq usually runs two to three minutes, and start to finish you're looking at about five minutes to have something ready to give. If you want to hear how these songs come across before you record anything, the inspiration gallery in the app has real example ones you can play, like a Father's Day song called "Windows Down."

If you want to record an intro of your own, Tuneliq is on the App Store and Google Play, and you can start one yourself.