ElevenLabs Reference Architecture

Overview

Production-ready architecture for ElevenLabs TTS/voice applications. Covers project layout, service layers, caching, streaming, and multi-model orchestration. The full code for each layer lives in references/ so this file stays a navigable map; drill into a reference file when you need the exact implementation.

Prerequisites

• Understanding of layered architecture patterns
• ElevenLabs SDK knowledge (see elevenlabs-sdk-patterns)
• TypeScript project with async patterns
• Redis (optional, for distributed caching)
• Auth: an ElevenLabs API key exported as ELEVENLABS_API_KEY (read by the config layer). This is the only ElevenLabs credential — your app's own request auth (middleware/auth.ts) is separate and unrelated.

Instructions