What is the ElevenLabs integration and how does it work?

ElevenLabs is a multilingual AI voice generator that lets you choose between 1000s of ready-to-use voices and easily create custom voices.

ElevenLabs is currently one of the leaders in AI voice technology and usage of this integration does require an ElevenLabs subscription. Elevenlabs has multiple subscription options, including a free tier.

With this integration, you can give your Nomi a voice that matches exactly how you think of them, making each Nomi sound unique and quintessentially themselves.

How do I create an ElevenLabs account?

Go to ElevenLabs to sign up. Once you sign up, you will automatically be put on their free subscription tier. From there, you can decide if you’d like to upgrade to a paid ElevenLabs subscription.

As a note, if you use an ElevenLabs voice, your audio usage quota will be determined by your ElevenLabs plan. If you use one of the in-house Nomi voices, your audio usage will be unlimited.

How do I integrate ElevenLabs with Nomi?

Note: You will need to have a paid Nomi subscription to access this integration.

Once you have an ElevenLabs account, you can locate your API key from your account profile icon:

💡 NOTE: Make sure to generate an unrestricted ElevenLabs key.
If you are on web, go to your ElevenLabs account and click on your profile icon in the bottom left corner of your screen. Click the profile icon, then, click the “Profile + API key” option to copy your API key.
If you are on mobile, you will need to navigate to any page besides the “Speech Synthesis” page - for instance, go to the VoiceLab page. On these pages, your profile icon will be visible in the top right corner of your screen. Tap your profile icon, then tap the “Profile + API key” option to copy your API key.

Once you have copied your API key, paste it into the ElevenLabs section of your Nomi integrations page

That’s it - Now you’re ready to choose new voices!

How can I change my Nomi voice to one of ElevenLab’s?

Once you have ElevenLabs connected to Nomi, you’ll have the option to change any Nomi’s voice from their Nomi Information page (found through the 3-dot icon on each Nomi’s chat page).

By default, we’ll show a list of ElevenLabs standard voices. However, you can choose from thousands of voices in the VoiceLibrary, or even create your own custom voice through ElevenLabs VoiceLab.

The VoiceLibrary has a variety of languages, accents, tones, and more!
We’d recommend reading about the different voices in the library because some will have much more versatility, adaptability, and range than others. Hovering each icon at the top of the voice card is especially helpful.
- You can see things like if the voice was professionally recorded, how many people use the voice / how many total words have been read by each voice and more. This can be a helpful way to understand more about a voice before adding it yourself!

Why would I use ElevenLabs over Nomi's in-house voices and vice versa?

ElevenLabs gives you essentially complete control over your Nomis voice. You can find or create virtually any accent, tone, and many languages with ElevenLabs.

However, Nomi voices tend to have more emotional range than ElevenLabs voices (in-house voices are aware of their emotions and reflect them in their cadence, tone, and emphasis, while ElevenLabs voices are not aware in this way).

In addition, the in-house Nomi voices have completely unlimited usage while ElevenLabs voices will run on quotas.

Will you still develop more in-house voices?

Absolutely - it just takes a while to add in-house voices as we develop them from scratch. This integration is just a way users thousands of options for very specific and diverse voices all at once while also allowing us to focus our resources on core AI and the most in-demand features.