🎙️ ElevenLabs ⏱ 6 min read 🗣️ Text to Speech

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Type any text and hear it spoken in a natural AI voice — choose from thousands of voices in 30+ languages, create multi-voice dialogues, and control emotion, speed, and delivery style

Text to Speech turns written words into natural-sounding audio. Type what you want said, pick a voice from a library of thousands, and the AI generates speech that sounds like a real person — with natural rhythm, pauses, and expression. Supports over 30 languages.

Four modes cover different needs. Create Speech generates audio from text with a single voice — the simplest and most common use. Speech with Timing adds character-level timestamps to the output, useful for syncing audio with subtitles or animations. Create Dialogue lets you assign different voices to different lines, producing a multi-voice conversation with up to 10 unique speakers. Dialogue with Timestamps combines multi-voice with timing data for precise sync workflows.

Emotion and delivery control make the speech feel human. On the latest v3 model, audio tags let you insert direction directly into the text — mark a word as whispered, excited, or sighed, and the voice responds naturally. Speed and stability sliders fine-tune how fast the voice speaks and how consistent it stays.

The generated audio works standalone for podcasts, voiceovers, and narration, or feeds directly into other tools — use it as the audio input for Avatar (photo to talking video) or Lip Sync (make someone in a video speak it). This is how you give your AI character a voice across all their content.