ElevenLabs Review: Benefits for Content Creators

Compelling voiceovers elevate video content, transforming standard TikTok and YouTube clips into professional-quality work. Realistic AI voice generators, like the one from ElevenLabs, make it easier than ever to create quality sound effects for videos, helping creators to generate studio-grade audio for any use. 

Learn more about this top speech synthesis model in our ElevenLabs review and how to pair its features with Captions. 

What’s ElevenLabs?

ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company. Its generative AI audio model can generate realistic speech, voices, and sound effects in 32 languages — making content accessible to millions of users worldwide. 

ElevenLabs’ speech synthesis technology has endless use cases, from audiobooks to podcasts and videos to news articles. Groups that can benefit from its tools include: 

• Content creators — Video creators can generate natural-sounding narration and voiceovers or clone their own voice to streamline the production and editing process. 
• Developers — Developers can use ElevenLabs’ library and API to voice game characters, narrate text, and enhance applications with chatbots, virtual assistants, and text-to-speech functionality. 
• Businesses — Companies can add voiceovers in different languages to advertisements or presentations, pushing marketing materials to reach wider audiences. 
• Educators — Teachers can dub content into other languages to improve non-native speakers’ comprehension or create interactive lessons with audio narrations. 
• Audiobooks and podcasts — Authors and podcasters can bring characters and stories to life with distinct AI voices and emotions.

How Can You Use ElevenLabs Available With Captions?

Captions partners with numerous generative AI companies, enabling creators to use creative elements from top models within our online video editor. In just a few clicks, you can add voiceovers with ElevenLabs voice synthesizer, dynamic visuals by Luma AI, or transformative videos with Pika AI. Spend less time toggling between different platforms and focus on elevating your content with image, voice, music, and sound effects from the best AI models. 

Best of all, you don’t need to worry about how much ElevenLabs costs, as it’s free to use with your Captions subscription. 

5 Key Features of ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs operates several speech synthesis models, including the Eleven Multilingual v2, Eleven Flash v2.5, and Scribe v1. While each model differs slightly in its specialty, speed, and character limit, all five offer the same key features. 

1. Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-text 

The text-to-speech (TTS) feature uses AI to convert written text into lifelike speech. Users can generate voices in different languages and customize voice effects such as clarity, emotion, pitch, and tone. Generated voices can be downloaded as MP3 files and used for social media audio, narrations for presentations, and ad reads for videos and podcasts. 

Alternatively, you can turn spoken audio into text with ElevenLabs’ speech-to-text (STT) API. Along with transcribing audio into text, this feature supports exact timestamps for each word or audio event, like laughter and applause, and can identify individual speakers. 

2. Speech-to-Speech

ElevenLabs’ voice changer lets you transform source audio into a different voice without losing quality or the original sound’s unique attributes. This speech-to-speech (STS) feature can capture subtle emotional cues and audio events like laughs and cries,preserving the source audio’s emotional nuance. After recording, you can edit out specific words or phrases, remove background noise, and dub the speech into a different language. 

3. Voice Cloning

When you want an AI voice to sound exactly like yours, try ElevenLabs’ voice cloning feature. This technology lets you use an audio sample to produce a model indistinguishable from the original voice. You can use this tool to create voiceovers for TikTok or YouTube videos when you want content that sounds just like you.

4. Multilingual Capabilities

Each ElevenLabs voice model can generate speech in at least 29 languages, with the Eleven Flash v2.5 model supporting 32 and the Scribe v1 model offering accurate transcription in 99. 

Available languages include: 

• English
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• German
• Arabic
• Korean
• Italian
• Turkish
• Swedish
• Filipino
• Romanian
• Ukrainian
• Czech
• Finnish
• Croatian
• Tamil
• Hindi
• Chinese
• French
• Japanese
• Russian
• Indonesian
• Dutch
• Polish
• Norwegian
• Malay
• Hungarian
• Gree
• Danish
• Bulgaria
• Slovak
• Vietnamese
  
  

5. AI Text and Voice API

Developers who want to create chatbots, virtual assistants, or accessibility tools for apps and websites can implement these features with ElevenLabs’ API. The API is accessible through HTTP or Websocket requests using its official Python bindings or Node.js libraries. It offers full privacy mode and end-to-end encryption to protect data during translation, and answers are available in its developers’ Discord community if you need help. 

Pros and Cons of ElevenLabs

Like any tool, it has its strengths and limitations. Here’s a look at the benefits and drawbacks to help you decide if it’s the right fit for your content creation needs.

Pros 

High-Quality and Natural-Sounding Voices

ElevenLabs creates natural-sounding AI voiceovers that sound as good or better than similar tools. It offers over 120 preset designs, with options for specific character types, emotional and professional styles, and vowel quality. 

Strong Safety Measures

ElevenLabs actively monitors content created with its technology and flags (or bans) users who break its policies. It also lets anyone check if an audio file was generated by its models, working with other AI companies, academics, and policymakers to promote transparency in AI content.

Free Plan and Affordable Subscriptions

ElevenLabs pricing for paid plans ranges from $5 to $1,320 per month, with each successive tier offering additional features and credits. It also offers a free plan that provides users enough credits to generate 10 minutes of text-to-speech audio or 15 minutes of conversational AI monthly.

Cons

No AI Video Editor or Writer

Although you can integrate ElevenLabs’ audio features with existing video content, it can’t generate or edit videos for you. Additionally, its models can’t create original text, meaning you’ll have to use an ElevenLabs alternative with a generative text model like ChatGPT if you need a script for it to narrate. 

Limited Preset Voice Options

You may not find the specific sound you want among ElevenLabs’ preset designs. That said, what it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality, producing some of the most natural-sounding AI voices in the industry. 

Typical ElevenLabs Use Cases

Whether you want to increase accessibility, save time in post-production, or reach new audiences, ElevenLabs has a feature for you. Here are some ways you can leverage its speech synthesis technology.

Content Creation and Editing

ElevenLabs offers numerous tools for creators to enhance video content and simplify the editing process. For example, creators can generate original audio for Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, dub voiceovers in other languages, or create a voice clone for narration. 

Captions users can now leverage ElevenLabs’ model to create lifelike voiceovers directly in the video editor. Simply select a voice style, choose an output language, then enter your script — watch ElevenLabs and Captions enhance your storytelling with authentic-sounding AI voiceovers. 

Podcasting 

Podcasts require recording hours of clear, captivating audio, which can strain hosts’ time and vocal cords. With ElevenLabs’ voice cloning and text-to-speech tools, podcasters can generate intros and outros, guest introductions, and ad reads in their own voice, saving time to spend on prep or recording more content. 

Audiobooks

Great voice actors elevate the written word and motivate people to listen to books they might otherwise skip. ElevenLabs’ voice library lets authors model the skills of dozens of voice actors. This lets them quickly narrate their books and create captivating character voices with unique personalities, regional accents, emotional tones, and vocal qualities.

How To Use ElevenLabs With Captions

You can generate voiceovers with the ElevenLabs model directly in Captions’ video editor. Here’s how to make a voiceover using ElevenLabs with Captions:

1. Open Captions and select the Voice option in the sidebar on the left.
2. Tap the drop-down arrow under Model and select ElevenLabs.
3. Preview voice options and choose your favorite, then select your preferred language.
4. Enter a script and tap Generate to create a voiceover. The AI tool will deliver crisp audio in seconds.
5. Download the audio file and use it in your next project.

Create Sounds With ElevenLabs Through Captions

Whether you’re adding a voiceover to a TikTok duet or creating a polished outro for your podcast, choosing the right tools can make a big difference. Captions offers a range of editing features beyond audio, from automated captions and subtitles to video trimming and formatting — helping you create high-quality content with less effort. Pair these tools with AI-generated voiceovers and translations to keep your content engaging and accessible.

Try Captions today and deliver better content, faster.