🎬Creative (Video, Voice & Image) · Step-by-step guide

Studio-quality voiceovers without a studio

Type a script and get a natural human-sounding voiceover, or clone your own voice (with consent). Useful for videos, podcasts, adverts and training.

⏱️ 15 minutes🎯 Easy💵 Free tier; paid plans for more minutes and commercial use📋 7 steps
🧩 Other
🎯 What you'll have at the endYou'll create a natural-sounding voiceover from text in minutes.

🧰 Before you start

⏱️ Time needed15 minutes
💵 Rough costFree tier; paid plans for more minutes and commercial use

🪜 Step by step

🐣 Beginner mode: showing the 6 essential steps only. Extra steps are hidden; tap 🚀 Advanced at the top to see all 7.
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    Sign up

    Go to elevenlabs.io and create an account.

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    Open Text to Speech

    Find Text to Speech in the menu.

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    Pick a voice

    Browse the voice library and choose one that suits your brand. Listen to samples.

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    Paste your script

    Use the prompt below to make the script sound natural when spoken.

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    Generate and listen

    Click Generate. If something sounds off, tweak punctuation or add commas for pauses.

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    Download

    Download the audio (MP3) and add it to your video or podcast.

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    Optional: clone your voice

    ElevenLabs can copy your own voice from recordings. Only ever clone a voice with that person's permission.

    ➕ Extra step: hidden in 🐣 Beginner mode

💬 Copy-paste prompts

Tap Copy prompt, paste it into your AI (Grok, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini), then replace the [yellow bits] with your own details.

💬 Script for speaking
Rewrite this text so it sounds natural when read aloud by a voiceover: [paste text].
Short sentences, conversational, add commas where a speaker would pause, spell out numbers and abbreviations (e.g. 'MYR 500,000' as 'five hundred thousand ringgit'), keep it under [60] seconds.

⚠️ Tips & common mistakes

🌟 Why it's worth it

💡 Why it mattersCuts voice-talent costs and turnaround from days to minutes.
🏷️ Real exampleElevenLabs video tools.
🔌 Connects to:ElevenLabsVideo editorsPodcasts
📰 Found via Source: ElevenLabs: Video tools ↗

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