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Program — what it is and whose voice says it

Name it, say in a sentence or two what it is for, and pick the language. The description is what the writing is made from, so it is worth a moment: a twenty-minute wind-down for a Tuesday evening class, for people who sit at desks all day gets you further than relaxation.

Choose a voice under Our voices, or make your own. Select phases decides the shape — Arrive, Settle, Deepen, Interlude, Close — and you can leave any of them out. Ending decides how Close ends it: back to the day, or into sleep, where nothing brings the listener back, the voice slows and the end fades out longer. Pacing across program sets how the speaking slows from beginning to end.

Personalise makes it one file per person, with their first name spoken in it. Turn it on here; who it goes to is decided at Export.

Your own voice

Under Add your voice you can record about a minute, reading the passage on screen, or upload a file. Check your level first — the meter tells you if you are too quiet or too close. You confirm the voice is yours to use before it is made. A voice can be removed at any time, and removing it here removes it from the service that holds it too.

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Script — the words

Write drafts a phase from your description. It is a draft: change any line, delete it, add your own. Lines are what everything downstream works on, one sentence at a time.

If the program is not in English, an English translation tab shows what each line says, so a program in a language you do not speak is still yours to judge.

Write every phase first. Your voice comes in on Timeline, which renders voice audio for every line that has none when you open it. A line that has been changed is rendered again the next time it is needed; an unchanged line is never paid for twice. A line the voice refuses is marked in red here, with the reason, until you reword it.

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Timeline — how it breathes

Here you hear it. Press play and the playhead runs through the program; every line, every silence and every background is where it will be in the finished file.

Each phase has its own pace and its own gap between sentences, and this is where a meditation is actually made — the words matter less than the room left after them. Backgrounds are chosen per phase and crossfade when they change.

What you hear here is what the export renders. If it sounds right, it is right.

The voice floor, and subliminal phases

Under Levels, the voice always stays at least 3 dB above the music and ambiance in a speaking phase, so it can be heard. A fader that would bury it stops there instead. A normal mix sits far above that and never notices.

Settle and Deepen can be subliminal, and Close when the program ends in sleep, chosen on Script: the phase is written as affirmations — short first-person statements the listener takes as their own — and mixed below hearing, as far under Voice as Subliminal depth under Levels says. Arrive, and a Close that brings the listener back, are always heard, and the floor still holds in every phase that is not subliminal. It says so openly: the recording begins with your voice saying This program contains subliminal messages, the email and the listening page tell each listener, and every word travels inside the downloaded file.

Compression decides how much of a buried voice is left. Measured on a real program, the MP3 keeps it down to about 20 dB under the music and ambiance, and the master keeps all of it at any depth. Platforms that re-encode what you upload — podcast apps, YouTube, Spotify — are harsher: below about 10 dB under, most of it is gone. Export tells you how deep your mix is and which file to publish.

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Export — making the file

For sharing is the MP3 everyone gets, and it is what a message links to. Master is a full-quality FLAC, kept for a week, for when you want the file itself.

For a personalised program, choose who it is for: tick people from your list, Choose all, or paste names. One file is made for each, named for them, with their name spoken. Most of the audio is shared between them, so fifty people is not fifty times the work.

Exporting again replaces nothing — the newest file for a person is the one that gets sent.

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Send — it reaches them

Write the covering note once and it is used every time; {name}, {title} and {link} are filled in. Elixonic puts the message in the post, but it comes from you and replies come to you.

Before the first send, confirm that these people asked to hear from you. Only you can know that, which is why it is asked.

Each person gets a private link that plays in their browser, on a phone with the screen off, and can be downloaded to keep. The page also holds the words, folded away with a note to read them afterwards — a listener can always know what was said to them. The link works for 90 days — after that the file is theirs only if they downloaded it, which the page tells them.

Sent keeps the history: every mailing, who it went to, and what became of it. Bounces can arrive hours later, so that is where they turn up.

Alongside

Subscribers — your people

First name, last name, and how to say the name if it is not obvious from the spelling. Groups let you send to one class rather than everyone. Import takes a list you already have.

They are yours. They are never emailed by us, never shared, never sold. Someone who unsubscribes is gone from your sending and you cannot put them back — only they can.

Afterwards

Publishing — what you may do with it

A meditation you make here is yours to share, publish and sell: in a paid podcast, a course, an app, on a monetised channel, anywhere, to as many people as you can reach. What you pay us has nothing to do with how far it goes, and anything you exported stays yours to use after you stop subscribing. Terms has the exact wording.

The music and ambiances are ours, licensed to you as part of your meditations. Two things follow: do not use them on their own, and do not publish something that is mostly music with a line or two spoken over it.

A meditation made in subliminal mode keeps its spoken disclosure wherever it goes. Do not cut it, and say that it contains subliminal messages wherever you publish it.

Content ID

YouTube Content ID, Facebook Rights Manager and similar systems listen to every upload and claim anything that matches a registered recording. Every teacher's meditations share the same music and ambiances, so if one teacher registers a meditation, the system starts claiming those sounds in everyone else's videos — including that teacher's own other uploads. So do not register your meditations with any of them.

This mostly happens by accident. DistroKid, CD Baby, TuneCore and similar services can register what you send them, and some offer it as a box to tick or switch it on for you. Using them is fine; check that their content-identification option is off.

If one of yours is claimed anyway

Someone else may have registered a recording that uses the same sounds. Dispute the claim on the platform, saying the music is licensed to you through Elixonic, and write to connect@elixonic.com with the link. We will confirm the licence to the platform, and find out who registered it.