How to Use ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI voice platform known for natural-sounding text-to-speech, voice cloning, and dubbing, used for everything from audiobooks to app voiceovers.

Step 1: Generate speech from text

Paste text into the Speech Synthesis tool, pick a voice, and generate audio. The models are known for natural prosody and emotional range compared to older robotic-sounding TTS.

Step 2: Clone a voice

With Instant Voice Cloning, upload a short sample — around a minute — of someone's voice (with their consent), and ElevenLabs generates a synthetic version usable for future text.

Step 3: Adjust voice settings

Stability and similarity sliders control the trade-off between consistency and expressiveness — lower stability gives more emotional range but less predictable output.

Step 4: Use the API

The same voices and generation are available via API, so you can build TTS directly into an app rather than only using the web playground manually.

Step 5: Try Dubbing or Voice Changer

ElevenLabs can translate and dub video into other languages in the original speaker's cloned voice, and separately convert one voice into another in near real time.

Where it bites

Character-based usage limits reset monthly and get consumed fast on longer scripts — a single long-form narration project can burn through a lower-tier plan's entire monthly quota in one generation.