The official Python API for ElevenLabs text-to-speech software. Eleven brings the most compelling, rich and lifelike voices to creators and developers in just a few lines of code.

Check out the HTTP API documentation.

pip install elevenlabs

The SDK was rewritten in v3 and is now programatically generated from our OpenAPI spec. As part of this release there are some breaking changes.

The SDK now exports a client class that you must instantiate to call various endpoints in our API.

from elevenlabs.client import ElevenLabs

client = ElevenLabs(api_key="...")

As part of this change, there is no longer a set_api_key and get_api_key method exported.

The SDK now uses httpx under the hood. This allows us to export an async client in addition to a synchronous client. Note that you can pass in your own httpx client as well.

from elevenlabs.client import AsyncElevenLabs

client = AsyncElevenLabs(api_key="...", httpx=httpx.AsyncClient(...))

There are no longer static methods exposed directly on objects. For example, instead of Models.from_api() you can now do client.models.get_all().

The renames are specified below:

User.from_api() -> client.users.get()

Models.from_api() -> client.models.get_all()

Voices.from_api() -> client.voices.get_all()

History.from_api() -> client.history.get_all()

The SDK continues to export methods for generate, play, clone, and voices which are detailed in the README below.

We support two main models: the newest eleven_multilingual_v2, a single foundational model supporting 29 languages including English, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Filipino, Malay, Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, and Tamil; and eleven_monolingual_v1, a low-latency model specifically trained for English speech.

from elevenlabs import generate, play

audio = generate(
  text="Hello! 你好! Hola! नमस्ते! Bonjour! こんにちは! مرحبا! 안녕하세요! Ciao! Cześć! Привіт! வணக்கம்!",
  voice="Bella",
  model="eleven_multilingual_v2"
)

play(audio)

List all your available voices with voices().

from elevenlabs import voices, generate

voices = voices()
audio = generate(text="Hello there!", voice=voices[0])
print(voices)

Voices(
    voices=[
        Voice(
            voice_id='21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM',
            name='Rachel',
            category='premade',
            settings=None,
        ),
        Voice(
            voice_id='AZnzlk1XvdvUeBnXmlld',
            name='Domi',
            category='premade',
            settings=None,
        ),
        ...
    ]
)

Build a voice object with custom settings to personalize the voice style, or call client.voices.get_settings("your-voice-id") to get the default settings for the voice.

from elevenlabs import Voice, VoiceSettings, generate

audio = generate(
    text="Hello! My name is Bella.",
    voice=Voice(
        voice_id='EXAVITQu4vr4xnSDxMaL',
        settings=VoiceSettings(stability=0.71, similarity_boost=0.5, style=0.0, use_speaker_boost=True)
    )
)

play(audio)

Clone your voice in an instant. Note that voice cloning requires an API key, see below.

from elevenlabs import clone, generate, play

voice = clone(
    name="Alex",
    description="An old American male voice with a slight hoarseness in his throat. Perfect for news", # Optional
    files=["./sample_0.mp3", "./sample_1.mp3", "./sample_2.mp3"],
)

audio = generate(text="Hi! I'm a cloned voice!", voice=voice)

play(audio)

Stream audio in real-time, as it's being generated.

from elevenlabs import generate, stream

audio_stream = generate(
  text="This is a... streaming voice!!",
  stream=True
)

stream(audio_stream)

Stream text chunks into audio as it's being generated, with <1s latency. Note: if chunks don't end with space or punctuation (" ", ".", "?", "!"), the stream will wait for more text.

from elevenlabs import generate, stream

def text_stream():
    yield "Hi there, I'm Eleven "
    yield "I'm a text to speech API "

audio_stream = generate(
    text=text_stream(),
    voice="Nicole",
    model="eleven_monolingual_v1",
    stream=True
)

stream(audio_stream)

The SDK also exposes an HTTP client that you can use to query our various endpoints.

from elevenlabs.client import ElevenLabs

eleven = ElevenLabs(
  api_key="MY_API_KEY" # Defaulsts to ELEVEN_API_KEY
)
models = eleven.models.get_all()

Use AsyncElevenLabs if you want to make API calls asynchronously.

import asyncio

from elevenlabs.client import AsyncElevenLabs

eleven = AsyncElevenLabs(
  api_key="MY_API_KEY" # Defaulsts to ELEVEN_API_KEY
)

async def print_models() -> None:
    models = eleven.models.get_all()
    print(models)

asyncio.run(print_models())

All of the ElevenLabs models are nested within the elevenlabs module.

We support 29 languages and 100+ accents. Explore all languages.

While we value open-source contributions to this SDK, this library is generated programmatically. Additions made directly to this library would have to be moved over to our generation code, otherwise they would be overwritten upon the next generated release. Feel free to open a PR as a proof of concept, but know that we will not be able to merge it as-is. We suggest opening an issue first to discuss with us!

On the other hand, contributions to the README are always very welcome!