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How voices work

What a voice is, where the Voice library lives, how many voices your plan allows, and how to create, duplicate, delete, and assign one to a campaign.

Written by Denis Bauer

A voice is how Extrovert writes as you. It holds your background, how you want to sound, and the material the AI is allowed to bring up. Every comment and DM is drafted with one.

Each campaign uses exactly one voice, and a campaign can't exist without one. That's what lets you write differently for different audiences: longer takes in a topics campaign, short friendly comments for your creator peers, a low-pressure tone for reactivation.

What's inside a voice

Open any voice and you get three tabs:

  • Background - About you, About your company. Facts, used for both comments and DMs.

  • Comments - comment tone instructions, approved examples, talking points.

  • DMs - DM tone instructions, DM templates, selling points.

What to actually write in each field, with character limits and examples, is covered in How to improve comment and DM draft quality. This article covers the voices themselves.

The Voice library

Go to Settings → Voice library. Each row is one voice and shows:

  • Voice - its name

  • Comments - how complete the comments side is

  • DMs - how complete the DMs side is

  • Used by - how many campaigns use it, with their names on hover. A voice no campaign uses shows Unused.

Click a row to open the voice. The menu at the end of the row holds Duplicate voice and Delete voice.

If you're an admin or a manager, the picker at the top of the page lets you switch to a teammate's or a managed account's voices and edit those too. Everyone else sees only their own.

How complete is it?

The Comments and DMs columns tell you whether each channel is ready to write with. A column reading Not set up means the tone instructions for that channel are empty, and drafts there fall back to a generic voice.

One number is worth knowing: three. With fewer than three approved examples, or fewer than three DM templates, the AI has too little to pattern-match against, and the column keeps asking for more. Background isn't part of that check, but fill it anyway - it feeds both channels.

Creating a voice

Click Add voice in the Voice library and pick one of three routes:

  • With your own AI (recommended) - Claude or ChatGPT creates and fills the voice over MCP, straight from your chat. Click Claude or ChatGPT for the matching setup guide, or Copy prompt for your AI to paste into any assistant. See Connect Extrovert to an AI assistant.

  • Build it with the Extrovert assistant - opens in the side panel, pulls in your recent LinkedIn activity, and builds the voice with you. It asks before saving anything. See Using the Extrovert AI Assistant.

  • Start from scratch - name it and fill the tabs in yourself.

The same three routes appear inside each tab, in the Set up with AI card, so you can fill one section at a time without redoing the rest. Either way, review what the AI produced before you save it: cut anything generic, repeated, or unlike you.

Give the voice a name you'll recognise in a dropdown. "Casual outreach", "Enterprise CFOs", "Reactivation" beat "Voice 2".

How many voices you can have

  • Light: 1

  • Business: 2

  • Pro: unlimited

  • Trial: 2

The count is per person, so each team member has their own allowance. Inside a single voice, every plan gets the same room: 20 approved examples, 40 talking points, 40 selling points, and 40 DM templates. See Plan features and differences.

Which voice a campaign uses

You pick the voice when you create the campaign, on the last step. The dropdown shows the voices belonging to the campaign owner, not to you, and it's prefilled with the one they edited most recently.

To change it later, open Campaign → Voice and pick a different one. The page also shows what that voice currently contains, so you can see at a glance whether anything is missing.

Two consequences worth knowing:

  • Editing a voice changes every campaign that uses it. Check the Used by column before you rewrite a tone instruction.

  • Setting up a campaign for a teammate or a managed account means that person needs at least one voice of their own first. So does transferring a campaign to them - see Campaign ownership and how to transfer campaigns.

Duplicating a voice

When a second audience needs most of the same setup, don't start over. Open the row menu in the Voice library and choose Duplicate voice. You get a copy named "Original Copy" - rename it, then change only what differs, usually the tone instructions and a few talking points.

This is also the safe way to try a different tone: duplicate, point one campaign at the copy, and compare the drafts before you change anything on the original.

Deleting a voice

Open the row menu and choose Delete voice. You can't delete a voice while a campaign is still using it - point that campaign at a different voice first, or delete the campaign.

Deleting removes the voice's examples, talking points, selling points, and templates with it. Comments and DMs already posted are unaffected.

Where to start

One voice, filled properly, beats three half-empty ones. Fill Background first, then the Comments tab, and add the DMs tab when you actually start sending DMs. Add a second voice only when you catch yourself wanting to write differently for a specific audience.

For what goes in each field, read How to improve comment and DM draft quality.

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