ElevenLabs
Voice generation and cloning — the script and the punctuation matter more than the sliders.
Best for
- narration and voiceover
- audiobook-style reads
- dubbing into another language
Signature move
Read the script out loud once. Every place you pause becomes a comma.
How it wants to be spoken to
Write for the ear: short sentences, commas where you would breathe.
Spell tricky names the way they sound.
Raise stability for a consistent narrator, lower it for performance.
Generate in two- or three-sentence takes and stitch them.
Why it glitches
None of this is you doing it wrong. These are the shapes it reliably falls into — and the fix beside each.
Flat delivery → add punctuation and a sample of the tone you want.
Mispronounces a name → respell it phonetically in the script.
Long takes drift → chunk them.
Settings fight each other → change one slider at a time.
A prompt that works there
Narrate this in a warm, unhurried voice, pausing at every full stop: [paste a two- to three-sentence chunk] Say [Name] as [foh-NET-ik].
Bring Tay your actual task and she'll shape it for ElevenLabs.
Practice with Tay