The notice period for voices in the ElevenLabs Voice Library is designed to give users advance warning when a voice creator decides to remove their voice from the library, ensuring a smooth transition.
When a voice actor shares their voice to the Voice Library, they have the option to set a notice period. They can set anything from no notice period, which means that if they decide to delete their voice, it will be removed immediately from the Voice Library. All users who have added the voice won't be able to use it as soon as they click "Unshare," up to a two-year notice period.
If a voice actor does set a notice period, users who have added a voice to "My Voices" will receive email and in-app notifications when the voice creator decides to remove their voice. The voice will be immediately removed from the Voice Library, but it will stay in your account and be usable for the duration of the notice period. This also means that if you delete a voice when the notice period has been activated, you will not be able to add it back because you won't be able to find it in the Voice Library.
Once the notice period has been activated, you will see in the app when the voice will be disabled. If you're using the API, you can also see this when fetching the voice using the Get Voice endpoint and looking for the disable_at_unix in the response. If the voice has not had its notice period active, this key will not exist or it will say null.
For the voice removal notice, we also have a third choice. You can get notified via a webhook whenever a voice is removed. This can be very useful if you are running a bigger operation where you need to be informed as soon as the voice is removed, either because you want to know about it or because you might have to notify your customers if you're running a business.
You can set this up on your webhooks settings page for your account.