Voices

Learn how to create, customize, and manage voices with ElevenLabs.

Overview

ElevenLabs provides models for voice creation & customization. The platform supports a wide range of voice options, including voices from our extensive voice library, voice cloning, and artificially designed voices using text prompts.

Voice categories

  • Community: Voices shared by the community from the ElevenLabs voice library.
  • Cloned: Custom voices created using instant or professional voice cloning.
  • Voice design: Artificially designed voices created with the voice design tool.
  • Default: Pre-designed, high-quality voices optimized for general use.

Community

The voice library contains over 5,000 voices shared by the ElevenLabs community. Use it to:

  • Discover unique voices shared by the ElevenLabs community.
  • Add voices to your personal collection.
  • Share your own voice clones for cash rewards when others use it.

Share your voice with the community, set your terms, and earn cash rewards when others use it. We’ve paid out over $1M already.

Product guide

Learn how to use voices from the voice library

Cloned

Clone your own voice from 30-second samples with Instant Voice Cloning, or create hyper-realistic voices using Professional Voice Cloning.

  • Instant Voice Cloning: Quickly replicate a voice from short audio samples.
  • Professional Voice Cloning: Generate professional-grade voice clones with extended training audio.

Voice-captcha technology is used to verify that all voice clones are created from your own voice samples.

A Creator plan or higher is required to create voice clones.
Product guide

Learn how to create instant & professional voice clones

Voice design

With Voice Design, you can create entirely new voices by specifying attributes like age, gender, accent, and tone. Generated voices are ideal for:

  • Realistic voices with nuanced characteristics.
  • Creative character voices for games and storytelling.

The voice design tool creates 3 voice previews, simply provide:

  • A voice description between 20 and 1000 characters.
  • Some text to preview the voice between 100 and 1000 characters.
Developer quickstart

Integrate voice design into your application.

Product guide

Learn how to craft voices from a single prompt.

Default

Our curated set of default voices is optimized for core use cases. These voices are:

  • Reliable: Available long-term.
  • Consistent: Carefully crafted and quality-checked for performance.
  • Model-ready: Fine-tuned on new models upon release.

Default voices are available to all users via the my voices tab in the voice lab dashboard. Default voices were previously referred to as premade voices. The latter term is still used when accessing default voices via the API.

Managing voices

All voices can be managed through My Voices, where you can:

  • Search, filter, and categorize voices
  • Add descriptions and custom tags
  • Organize voices for quick access

Learn how to manage your voice collection in My Voices documentation.

  • Search and Filter: Find voices using keywords or tags.
  • Preview Samples: Listen to voice demos before adding them to My Voices.
  • Add to Collection: Save voices for easy access in your projects.

Tip: Try searching by specific accents or genres, such as “Australian narration” or “child-like character.”

Supported languages

All ElevenLabs voices support multiple languages. Experiment by converting phrases like Hello! こんにちは! Bonjour! into speech to hear how your own voice sounds across different languages.

ElevenLabs supports voice creation in 32 languages. Match your voice selection to your target region for the most natural results.

  • Default Voices: Optimized for multilingual use.
  • Generated and Cloned Voices: Accent fidelity depends on input samples or selected attributes.

Our v2 models support 29 languages:

English (USA, UK, Australia, Canada), Japanese, Chinese, German, Hindi, French (France, Canada), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Italian, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Indonesian, Dutch, Turkish, Filipino, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Arabic (Saudi Arabia, UAE), Czech, Greek, Finnish, Croatian, Malay, Slovak, Danish, Tamil, Ukrainian & Russian.

Flash v2.5 supports 32 languages - all languages from v2 models plus:

Hungarian, Norwegian & Vietnamese

Learn more about our models

FAQ

Yes, you can create custom voices with Voice Design or clone voices using Instant or Professional Voice Cloning. Both options are accessible in My Voices.

Instant Voice Cloning uses short audio samples for near-instantaneous voice creation. Professional Voice Cloning requires longer samples but delivers hyper-realistic, high-quality results.

Professional Voice Clones can be shared privately or publicly in the Voice Library. Generated voices and Instant Voice Clones cannot currently be shared.

Use My Voices to search, filter, and organize your voice collection. You can also delete, tag, and categorize voices for easier management.

Use clean and consistent audio samples. For Professional Voice Cloning, provide a variety of recordings in the desired speaking style.

Yes, Professional Voice Clones can be shared in the Voice Library. Instant Voice Clones and Generated Voices cannot currently be shared.

Generated Voices are ideal for unique characters in games, animations, and creative storytelling.

Go to Voices > Voice Library in your dashboard or access it via API.

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