ElevenLabs integration guide

Overview

ElevenLabs provides an AI text-to-speech (TTS) service with thousands of human-like voices across a number of different languages. With LiveKit's ElevenLabs integration and the Agents framework, you can build AI voice applications that sound realistic.

Quick reference

Environment variables

ELEVEN_API_KEY=<your-elevenlabs-api-key>

TTS

LiveKit's ElevenLabs integration provides a text-to-speech (TTS) interface. This can be used in a VoicePipelineAgent or as a standalone speech generator. For a complete reference of all available parameters, see the plugin reference.

Usage

from livekit.plugins.elevenlabs import tts

eleven_tts=elevenlabs.tts.TTS(
    model="eleven_turbo_v2_5",
    voice=elevenlabs.tts.Voice(
        id="EXAVITQu4vr4xnSDxMaL",
        name="Bella",
        category="premade",
        settings=elevenlabs.tts.VoiceSettings(
            stability=0.71,
            similarity_boost=0.5,
            style=0.0,
            use_speaker_boost=True
        ),
    ),
    language="en",
    streaming_latency=3,
    enable_ssml_parsing=False,
    chunk_length_schedule=[80, 120, 200, 260],
)

Parameters

• idstringRequired

  #

  ID of the voice to use for generation. To learn more, see the ElevenLabs documentation.

• namestringRequired

  #
• categorystringRequired

  #
• settingsVoiceSettingsOptional

  #

  See the ElevenLabs documentation.

  • stabilityfloatRequired

    #
  • similarity_boostfloatRequired

    #
  • stylefloatOptional

    #
  • use_speaker_boostboolOptional

    #