ElevenLabs Hello World

Overview

Generate speech from text using the ElevenLabs TTS API. This skill covers the core POST /v1/text-to-speech/<voice-id> endpoint with real voice IDs, model selection, and audio output. Start from the minimal SDK call below, then drill into the full implementation for the cURL, streaming, and multi-language paths.

Prerequisites

• Completed the elevenlabs-install-auth setup skill so the SDK is installed.
• A valid API key exported as ELEVENLABS_API_KEY in your shell environment.
• Node 20+ (for the TypeScript SDK path) or Python 3.9+ (for the Python path).

Instructions

The whole workflow is one API call: pick a voice ID, pick a model, send text, write the returned audio stream to a file. The minimal TypeScript path: