How to Use ElevenLabs - Best Text to Speech AI Voices (FULL GUIDE)

The video introduces 11 Labs, an AI-based speech synthesis tool that can convert text to speech and modify voice recordings. It’s touted as one of the most realistic AI voice generators in 2024. The video explains its pricing model, recommending the affordable starter plan for beginners, which offers a commercial license and custom voice creation. The presenter mentions that while the free trial is limited, paid plans unlock more features.

11 Labs is not just a basic text-to-speech tool. It uses AI to understand the context of the text, making it sound natural and dynamic. The video dives into customization options, such as choosing from pre-made male or female voices with various accents and tones. It also explains the importance of the three key settings: stability, clarity, and style exaggeration, to control voice expressiveness and quality.

The video covers advanced voice customization options, including stability, which influences the consistency of the voice, and the ability to tweak similarity to the original voice. The presenter explains that users should experiment with these settings, particularly when dealing with longer texts. There's also an overview of style exaggeration, which is an experimental setting for amplifying voice characteristics.

This section details the different language models available in 11 Labs, including the English V1, Multilingual V1, Multilingual V2, and Turbo V2 models. Each model has unique strengths, with the Multilingual V2 being recommended for most use cases due to its wide language support and stability. The presenter advises using this model for optimal results, especially when working with diverse languages and accents.

Here, the presenter gives tips on improving text-to-speech results, such as using syntax for pauses and adjusting pronunciation for better accuracy. The video also discusses emotional tones and pacing, suggesting writing in a book-like manner to guide the AI in delivering a natural speech output with appropriate emotions.

The video explains the speech-to-speech feature, where users can input an audio file and convert it into a different voice while preserving the original cadence and delivery. It allows voice tone transformation while retaining natural speech patterns. The presenter shows how this tool simplifies voice alteration without the need for text input.

In this part, viewers learn how to create custom voices using the voice lab, including the option to clone a voice. The presenter explains that users can design voices by selecting gender, age, and accent, and clone voices by uploading an audio file. The quality of the audio input is emphasized as crucial to achieving a high-quality voice clone.

The presenter walks through the process of saving and managing custom-created voices, explaining that custom voices are private unless the user chooses to share them. The video also provides advice on the optimal number of samples for voice cloning, suggesting that a single high-quality recording often yields better results than multiple samples.

The final feature discussed is voice dubbing, where users can translate their speech into different languages while retaining the original voice. This isn't just a subtitle translation but a full audio translation, preserving the speaker's voice characteristics in another language. The video concludes with a call to action to use an affiliate link to sign up for 11 Labs.