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A Living Design Laboratory · Adaptive lesson

Directing Waverly

Lesson 1: The Voice Detective. Learn to direct an AI voice the way a director works with an actor: listen, diagnose, direct, and listen again.

Sketch of a recording studio: a director in a headset presses the talkback button at a mixing desk, while through the glass Waverly, in headphones over his cowboy hat, glares at the microphone with his arms crossed. An empty director's chair marked WAVERLY stands behind him.
About 8 minutes · Your own path · No typing until the encore

Can you get Waverly to sound like Waverly?

Waverly Percival Huggins is the tough guy from the animated series Tough Guy & College Boy. His voice was made with an AI voice generator (ElevenLabs, inside Articulate Storyline 360), and getting it right took a lot of directing.

In this lesson you'll hear real takes from that production, spot what's wrong, and build your own direction. The lesson adapts to your answers, so no two learners take quite the same path. At the end, you can write your own line and hear Waverly say it.


No account needed. Only the line you write at the end is sent to the AI coach and the voice generator, and nothing is stored. Your name stays on this page.