No worries at all! I completely understand cos it's a bit of a weird situation and somewhat dodgy ground, haha. That's why I thought it was best to ask, so thank you for getting back to me :3
The service I used didn't require me to consent to them using my voice in any way. It stated that they won't store any data from my uploaded recordings, but really I have no way of verifying if that's true or not >.< And even though they say their training data is all ethical for their voices, again, there's not really any way for me to truly verify it, so I can absolutely understand that.
You don't need to apologise anyhow cos it's fair enough :3
If it wasn't for the fact that I was rushing to make this during winter jam last December, I may not have had to resort to using the speech-to-speech dubbing anyhow because I would've potentially had more time to gather more funds to pay a proper narrator, but the jam was only a month long, and I hadn't actually planned to join it, so it was all a bit of a mad rush xD I'd told myself no more jams for 2023, and then December came along and I wound up joining anyways, haha.
Had the project been started for this jam, I would've spent more time on it and wouldn't have even touched the speech-to-speech stuff. I doubt I'll ever use it again either unless it's for another emergency x3
With any luck, I'll have the time to start a brand new mini-project for this jam before the jam ends! :3
Thanks again and have a happy last day of January!