# ElevenLabs TTS (inference.sh) — model skill for voice & voiceover

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Voice scripts with ElevenLabs v4, v4 Turbo, v3, Multilingual v2 and Flash, via inference.sh.

- **Type:** [Model](https://skills.varg.ai/models.md) · [Voice & voiceover](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/audio.md)
- **Slug:** `inference-sh-elevenlabs-tts`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** inference.sh (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/inference-sh/skills/tree/main/tools/audio/elevenlabs-tts
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** inference.sh account, belt CLI (`belt login`)
- **Cost:** Billed by inference.sh
- **Adoption:** 6 installs, 781 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Runs ElevenLabs text-to-speech through inference.sh, with each model as its own app: Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo (audio tags, realtime streaming), Eleven v3, Multilingual v2 and Flash v2.5. It includes voice selection guidance.

## Use when

- ElevenLabs voiceover without an ElevenLabs key
- Comparing ElevenLabs voice models

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill elevenlabs-tts -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill elevenlabs-tts -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill elevenlabs-tts -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill elevenlabs-tts -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** eleven_v4, eleven_v4_turbo, eleven_v3, eleven_multilingual_v2, eleven_flash_v2_5

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/inference-sh-elevenlabs-tts.mp3 — Eleven v4 (the skill's default model) narration steered with audio tags like [tense] and [whispering]: 'The night was quiet, almost unnaturally so. Then I heard the old gate creak open behind me…' (credit: ElevenLabs (Eleven v4 sample), https://elevenlabs.io/blog/emotional-text-to-speech-with-eleven-v4)

## More voice & voiceover skills

- [ElevenLabs Dubbing](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/elevenlabs-dubbing.md): Dub video and audio into other languages while keeping each original speaker's voice.
- [ElevenLabs Text to Speech](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/elevenlabs-text-to-speech.md): Turn scripts into natural voiceover in 90+ languages with ElevenLabs voices, streaming and stitching.
- [ElevenLabs Voice Changer](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/elevenlabs-voice-changer.md): Re-voice a recording in a different voice while keeping its emotion, timing and delivery.
- [AI Voice Cloning](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-voice-cloning.md): Generate expressive voices in 100+ languages with Inworld TTS-2, ElevenLabs and more, from one CLI.
- [Dialogue Audio](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-dialogue-audio.md): Produce multi-speaker dialogue audio with speaker tags, emotion and pacing for podcasts and explainers.
- [ElevenLabs Dialogue](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-elevenlabs-dialogue.md): Generate a whole multi-voice conversation as one audio file with ElevenLabs, from a script.

## Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt