What is elevenlabs-tts?

A workflow for turning written scripts into spoken audio with ElevenLabs, including voice selection, batches, and timing information for subtitles or animation.

It is for creating voiceovers, narration, audiobooks, real-time agent speech, subtitle timings, and synced animation audio in supported languages.

It gives spoken content a repeatable script and generation process while making timing checks explicit and leaving subjective delivery choices for a person to judge.

elevenlabs-tts — Skill for Claude Code by shaharsha/claude-skills

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add shaharsha/claude-skills --skill elevenlabs-tts

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shaharsha/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install documents-and-decks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Per session 223 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 6,704 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00223	$0.06704
Opus 5.5	$0.00089	$0.02682
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00045	$0.01341
Haiku 4.5	$0.00022	$0.00670

Measured today against content hash fdc9e0c52b26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

elevenlabs-tts scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (scripts/ab_concat.py, scripts/align_narration.py, scripts/check_tags_spoken.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

**The key.** The bundled scripts read `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY`, else the first line of `~/.config/elevenlabs/api_key` (chmod 600). If neither exists but the user keeps keys in a notes file, load it inside the command substit

skills/elevenlabs-tts/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ElevenLabs TTS (Eleven v4)

Overview

Script → speech with ElevenLabs, done so the delivery is directed, the batch is consistent, and the timings are trustworthy. Eleven v4 (eleven_v4, released 2026-09-28) is the default for anything pre-rendered. It directs delivery entirely through audio tags written into the text — there is no speed, style, or SSML control — so writing the script is directing the performance.

You cannot hear the audio. Everything here is built so that the parts a machine can check get checked (tags spoken vs performed, durations, alignment), and the parts it can't (is this the right emotion?) are handed to a human explicitly.

Requirements: an API key, a voice ID (default Josh, see Voices), Python 3 (scripts are stdlib-only), ffmpeg and ffprobe (the join, trim, level, A/B and music scripts use them).

The key. The bundled scripts read ELEVENLABS_API_KEY, else the first line of ~/.config/elevenlabs/api_key (chmod 600). If neither exists but the user keeps keys in a notes file, load it inside the command substitution, matched by the line's label (export ELEVENLABS_API_KEY="$(grep -m1 '<label of that line>' FILE | grep -oE 'sk_[A-Za-z0-9_-]+')"), never by line number - the file changes and a line number silently picks the wrong key. Never print it; check its length if you must.

"Explain X to me as an MP3" is the most common job: go straight to Spoken briefings below. Narration for slides is the second; deck-specific steps live in narrating-pptx.

Choose the model

Model	Use for
`eleven_v4`	Default. Voiceover, narration, audiobooks, decks — anything pre-rendered. 10,000 chars/request, 90+ languages incl. Hebrew
`eleven_v4_turbo`	Real-time only: agents, Realtime Translation, the Text to Dialogue WebSocket (see `references/api.md`) — not for narration
`eleven_v3`	Only to regenerate a clip inside a set already made on v3 — mixing models in one deck is audible. 5,000 chars/request

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 lines

Files

What ships with it

18 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

today Changed · +35 lines · +3 tokens per session scan A → B fdc9e0c52b26
1mo ago Changed · +53 lines · +59 tokens per session e3bd12dea076
1mo ago First seen · 153 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A 9235d273c5ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

elevenlabs-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository shaharsha/claude-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 223 tokens to every session and 6,704 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-03.

Creative and media

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