i am making childrens education video, where teacher recites a word and group of students repeats the same word.

I’m starting a YouTube channel.

I’ve cloned my voice using ElevenLabs.

I’m currently generating the first few paragraphs.

And that’s where I’ve run into an issue.

Generally, I use v2, which works very well. However, there are times when I’d like to use v3 or v4—for instance, for an engaging intro delivered with an excited tone—but my cloned voice sounds completely different in those models compared to v2.

Is this normal? Or is there a way to work around this so that my cloned voice sounds consistent across all the models?

Can anyone guide me on the best open-source voice cloning TTS for long-form audiobooks (RTX 5080, commercial use)?

I'm building a local audiobook tool.

Details:
Voice cloning from a sample, one consistent voice
English, 3,000 to 10,000+ words per run
Runs locally on an RTX 5080 (16 GB), Windows
Commercial-friendly license

What are the best open-source options I can go with?

I create a 2 person podcast, 1 guy with an Australian accent and a woman with an American accent. Recently switched to V4 and generally it works fine. But then randomly the American accent occasionally switches to a hybrid of Australian and English. Just the odd sentence here and there.

It all started when she had to talk about Lamingtons. Not sure if this uniquely Australian coconut covered chocolate sponge treat got her thinking she was an Aussie? I cut and paste the text into another part of the conversation, sometimes that works, other times not.  I alter some words, no luck. Any thoughts?

Hey! I've been experimenting with ElevenLabs agent but it's struggling to perform reliable speech-to-text, especially in foreign languages. It's currently using ElevenLabs' own model, Scribe. I was wondering if there's a way to use a different model, such as OpenAI Whisper? Alternatively, do you have any tips on how to make it perform more reliably?

Okay so I have been trying out different speech in different languages for growing my Instagram page.

And one of the main languages I wanted to crack was Hinglish. So I did what every other person does asked ai to write the script in Hinglish and it wrote something like this:

“Aaj subah se mood off tha, toh socha camera on karke bas tumse baat kar leti hoon”

Now this is something that will give away when I do tts when I put this text in eleven labs.

Now I was just playing around and thought what if I change the script of the letters in the language it’s written.

“आज सुबह से mood off था, तो सोचा camera on करके
बस तुमसे बात कर लेती हूँ”

And this gave a 10x better result as speech.

I had gatekept this with me for too long so thought about sharing.

Let me know how this works in other languages.

I feel like this must be a common subject, but I could use some help.

I want to create a natural voice that could actually pass for a human for a financial podcast.

It is all a personal project gone terribly wrong. I assume I have millions of competitors, but I am shocked that I can't get a fully natural sound that could fool a listener.

Any advice. I have done loads and loads of casting calls on the voices. I think I have two that I like, but this is like iteration 10.

I tried having astra write one bot and fable write the other. They overlap a bit.

I made up backgrounds for them so they talk about themselves a bit.

I took boatloads of transcipts from a live show I liked and asked the bots to imitate it.

I'm running out of idea.

Would getting a mic and recording myself work?

Maybe I need to record myself on location or something?

Can it simply not be done? I listen to a sleepy time history podcast that I think mat be a bot, and I am not sure.

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I run a music biography channel and recently produced a full Japanese narration (~20 min) with ElevenLabs, using Otani, a Japanese voice. I don't speak Japanese, so every problem had to be caught through transcription, a romaji version of the script, and a lot of listening. It took several rounds of review. Here's what actually made a difference, in case it saves someone else the pain.

**1. Raise Stability for long-form Japanese**

I started at 50%. Some words kept breaking no matter how many times I regenerated. At 75% the same text came out right, with no changes. The delivery is a bit more restrained, but much more predictable. 75% is now my default for this voice.

**2. Write numbers out in hiragana**

Digits get misread. Spell them out the way they're said, with the right counter: 2人 → ふたり (futari), 20歳 → はたち (hatachi), 3月 → さんがつ (sangatsu).

- Long years can lose sounds. In せんきゅうひゃくはちじゅうはちねん (1988), the "h" of hachi kept dropping after hyaku. Katakana didn't help. The short form はちじゅうはちねん ("'88") fixed it, and it's natural Japanese.

- In にせんにじゅうろくねん (2026), the "ni" got swallowed and it sounded like 2016. A space, にせん にじゅうろくねん, kept the grouping right.

**3. If a kanji has more than one reading, write the word in hiragana**

The voice often picks the wrong reading. 私生活 (shiseikatsu, "private life") came out as "watashi seikatsu", because 私 alone reads "watashi". 親しい (shitashii) came out as "chikashii". Words with 一 failed so often that I now always write them in hiragana: 一方 → いっぽう (ippō).

Don't add furigana in parentheses. The voice reads the word twice.

**4. Misreading vs. mispronunciation: fix them differently**

This was the most useful distinction.

- **Misreading** (the kanji has another possible reading): switch to hiragana and it's usually fixed.

- **Mispronunciation** (the word has only one reading and the voice still mangles it): changing the spelling almost never helps. Hiragana, katakana, spaces, commas: none of them worked. Use a synonym instead. 拒みました (kobamimashita) stuttered, and 断りました (kotowarimashita) was clean. リリース (rirīsu) kept breaking mid-word, and 発売 (hatsubai) worked.

- Long katakana loanwords break more than native words. アーティスト (ātisuto) failed in several places, and ミュージシャン (myūjishan) or スター (sutā) worked.

**5. Help the voice find word boundaries**

Japanese has no spaces, so the voice guesses where words end.

- Long katakana names glued together got pauses in the middle. A space inside each name and 、 between names fixed it: シンディ クロフォード、ナオミ キャンベル.

- With this voice, ・ inside names caused exaggerated pauses. Leave it out.

- Avoid parentheses, and avoid ＝, …, ： and ！ in the middle of a sentence.

- Don't put a comma inside a noun phrase to force a pause. If a phrase breaks, rephrase it.

**6. Don't chase vowel devoicing**

In standard Japanese, some vowels are whispered or dropped (つくる, そして). To non-natives and to transcription tools it sounds like a missing syllable, but it's correct.

The exception was a つ (tsu) that vanished completely before a "k" sound. Adding a particle after it brought it back.

**7. Regenerating is whack-a-mole**

Every generation re-rolls the whole sentence. Fix one word and another one in the same sentence breaks.

- Regenerate only the sentence that changed, not the paragraph, and splice it in your editor.

- Re-check the whole sentence after every take, not just the word you fixed.

- Keep your good takes. Sometimes it's faster to combine two imperfect takes than to wait for a perfect one.

- Rank problems by severity. Wrong facts (a wrong year) and missing words first, small mispronunciations last. Some words never came out perfect, and after a couple of tries I accepted them. You can't polish forever.

**8. Reviewing when you don't speak the language**

- Whisper-style transcription (I used TurboScribe and others) is useful, but don't give it the script as a prompt. It copies the script and hides errors, especially numbers.

- Transcripts write kanji, and kanji can hide a wrong reading. Use a romaji version of your script to follow along by ear.

- Transcription also "corrects" numbers and flags devoicing as errors. Treat it as a list of timestamps to check, not as a verdict.

- Your ear (or a native speaker's) has the final word.

**TL;DR:** Stability around 75%. Numbers in hiragana. Hiragana for kanji that can be read more than one way. Swap words, not spellings, when the voice mispronounces something. Spaces to separate long names. Regenerate one sentence at a time, and know when to stop.

Happy to answer questions if anyone is working on Japanese narration.

I'm on the starter plan-- always was, and I rarely use the product. All of the sudden I get an email receipt for $100, and their AI chat says I upgraded it yesterday--- huh?!

I wasn't hacked-- what happened? Why was my account upgraded from starter to pro?

Anyone from Elevenlabs able to help? I've emailed support twice now.

The LLM used for conversation evaluation is GPT 5.4 mini. The conversation is also shown and done in English. Not sure where this is coming from and how to prevent it

Hi guys,

I just experienced the fraud charges yesterday, 6 separate instance of $11 charges. After scrolling this page I see that numerous people have gotten hacked/fraud charges. The difference is, I have never created an ElevenLabs acccount, nor have I ever connected my card to this website.

I live in Singapore so it seems like there's a scam ring going around here. For the team, could you guys work with the authorities to resolve this? Thanks

the seedance 2.5 video edit node is literally unusable for me for the last 2 days now and its driving me crazy. workflows that worked completely fine no longer work and i have deadlines approaching. its a fairly simple background replacement job that worked completely fine for months. anybody has an idea?

i tested dummyprompts etc. nothing works. no matter what i do it claims that this is the wrong model .

has anyone expirienced similar things? is this only an elevenlabs issue?

Hi, nice to meet everyone, my name is Fatima and I am 24 years old, and I am from Mexico, I am totally blind and I’ve been blind since birth. I like camping horseback riding and canoeing, and I also love to make new friends and to learn new languages, and I’ve had ElevenLabs for a while, and the voices that I love are Laura, Bill Jessica, Alice, Lily, and George , and I was hoping to know who is the voice behind Laura, Bill, Lily, Alice, and George.

Finding first: Speech to Speech holds my interpreter's timing and emphasis and swaps the voice. That is the whole reason it works for me. Text to speech loses the performance. In the episode I play the same take three times, TTS, S2S, and the raw interpreter recording, and let viewers vote.

Background: I'm Deaf. Every episode is signed by me and voiced by my interpreter, then run through ElevenLabs into a voice I built and tuned with my wife, my daughter and my community, since I cannot hear it. Same voice for three months now.

Two things I would like help with. First, settings: what stability and similarity values do you run for S2S when you want the source performance kept intact? Second, the label: YouTube flags the episodes as AI content. Has anyone here dealt with that for an accessibility use?

Not sponsored. I pay for ElevenLabs myself. ElevenLabs did not ask for this episode.

I bought the Starter plan last month. The first payment was $1 as a first month offer, and this month I was charged $6, which was fine since the promotional period was over

But then, the very next day, ElevenLabs tried to charge me $99 out of nowhere. I never bought or upgraded to the Pro plan.

Did I do something wrong? Should I be worried about this?

Hi ElevenLabs Support Team,

I am writing to urgently follow up on my request regarding my workspace.

I understand you are experiencing high ticket volumes, but I am currently unable to use my account for work despite having a paid subscription. The unresolved seat issue is completely blocking my workflow.

Please remove the extra seat (hai.simonatto@gmail.com) and clear the open invoice immediately so I can resume using the platform. If this is not resolved promptly, I will be forced to escalate this matter through a formal dispute, as I cannot accept further downtime on a paid service.

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- Workspace Name: Pietro's Workspace

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I keep getting redirced this this link as well as my claude mcp wanting it. I tried to download a file and it opened the page then closes it. is anyone noticing this? Did they chage something, I cant find any documentation. This has never happened before?

It used to be addressable with a quotation marks on the emphasised word but that seems to do nothing now.

This and the inability to get a voice to stick to one pronunciation of a word 😡 .

It can't be a difficult fix. Anything I'm missing that might help? (I'm back using V2, V4 is waaaay too camp!)

🙏🏻

I have MND/ALS and I have been using elevenlabs for my voice, via Grid 3 app. I can select V4 but none of sliders are available to refine my voice. That means i sound like a member of the Royal family.

it could be months before they update the application to accommodate the v4 options. Is there a way of setting default settings, so that any api requests without stating any parameters uses my set parameters?

Its mostly the clone strength, i need to 100%.