Turn written copy into natural-sounding voiceover right inside Claude — for reels, ads, and clips. One thing to know up front: this connector spends paid credits, so use it with intent.
Status: Live ✓Updated: June 25, 2026Access: read + write — generates voiceover · spends creditsAPI limit: 152,123 characters/month (shared Creator plan — verified live via check_subscription) — spends creditsSign-in: your Google work accountQuestions: David
Unlike our other connectors (which just read data), ElevenLabs creates something and spends money to do it. A few things to keep in mind before you generate:
💳 It bills per character
Voiceover is charged by the number of characters in your script. Short clips are cheap; long scripts cost more. Trim the text to what you actually need spoken.
👥 It's a shared account
The whole team draws on one shared Melinda Maria Creator-plan account with a limited monthly character budget. There's no per-person meter — so use it thoughtfully and don't regenerate on a whim.
🎧 You get a download link
Claude can't play audio inline, so each generation returns a clickable MP3 download link that's good for 24 hours. Download it and save it where your team keeps assets.
Use thoughtfully: finalize your script first, then generate once. If you need a tweak, change the words or the voice and regenerate intentionally — every generation draws from the shared monthly budget. If credits run low, that's a David heads-up.
What is the ElevenLabs connector?
ElevenLabs is an AI text-to-speech service — it turns written words into natural, human-sounding speech. The ElevenLabs connector brings that into Claude so anyone at MM can create a voiceover from a script without touching any software or keys. Paste your copy, pick a vibe, and get an audio file back.
🎙️ What it does (v1)
Voiceover — text to speech. Give it a script and it produces a polished spoken-audio MP3 you can download and drop into a reel, ad, or clip.
🗣️ Voices & tone
You can ask for different voices and tones — warm, upbeat, calm, energetic — to match the piece. Claude passes your direction through to the voice engine.
🔭 What's coming later
The underlying service can also do voice-cloning and transcription. Those aren't part of v1 — for now this is focused on getting great voiceover into your hands.
Why it matters: social and content move fast. Instead of booking a voice or wrestling with audio tools, you can get an on-brand voiceover for a reel in seconds — then refine the script and regenerate if it needs a tweak.
Connect it in about a minute
In Claude: Settings → Connectors → find it → click Connect → sign in. It’s already added for the team, so this is a one-time, ~1-minute step (see “Which login” below).
The ElevenLabs connector is already set up in Claude for the team — you just switch it on and sign in. Takes about 30 seconds.
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In Claude, open Settings → Connectors (or click the + in the message box → Connectors). Find ElevenLabs in the list — it's already there.
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Click the + (or Connect) next to ElevenLabs.
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When prompted, sign in with your Google work account (your @melindamaria.com email — the same one you use for Gmail & Drive). A personal Gmail won't work.
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Approve the connection. It shows Connected — then try "Using ElevenLabs, make a short test voiceover" — you should get a download link.
🔑 Which login? You only ever sign in with your Melinda Maria Google work account. You never enter any ElevenLabs password or key — those are stored securely on our side.
Don't see it in your Connectors list? Ask David — it gets enabled once for the team, then appears for everyone to switch on.
How to ask — say "make a voiceover…"
The connector is named ElevenLabs. Frame your ask as creating something, and give it the script:
"Using ElevenLabs, make a voiceover from this script: <your copy>."
A few tips that get great results — and keep credit use in check:
Finalize the script first
Tighten the wording before you generate. Fewer characters = lower cost and a cleaner read. Generate once you're happy.
Direct the voice & tone
"…warm and friendly", "…upbeat and energetic", "…a calm female voice". Describe the vibe and Claude will steer it.
Mind the length
For social, a 10–20 second read is usually plenty. Long scripts cost more and may need to be split — keep it tight.
Save the file promptly
The download link expires in 24 hours. Grab the MP3 and store it with your other assets right after it's made.
Example prompts — creating voiceover
These are all "create" prompts (each one spends some credits). Tweak the script and the voice to taste. The label shows roughly how much you're generating; the line under each shows which connectors get involved.
"Using ElevenLabs, make a warm, upbeat 15-second voiceover from this reel caption: 'Life's too short to wear boring jewelry — meet the new gold hoops you'll never take off.'"
ElevenLabs — short clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, turn this product blurb into a friendly voiceover for a TikTok — keep it under 20 seconds."
ElevenLabs — short clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, make a calm, elevated voiceover of this line for a story: 'Everyday luxury, made for you.'"
ElevenLabs — tiny clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, read this 3-bullet promo script in an energetic voice for a paid ad, then give me the download link."
ElevenLabs — short clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, voice this Mother's Day gift-guide intro in a warm, heartfelt tone for a reel."
ElevenLabs — short clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, make a quick 10-second 'back in stock' announcement voiceover for our gold huggie hoops."
ElevenLabs — tiny clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, narrate this 'how to layer necklaces' tip in a friendly, conversational voice for a tutorial."
ElevenLabs — short clip
🗣️
Trying voices & tones
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, generate this same line in a warm female voice — I want to hear how it sounds before we commit to a style."
ElevenLabs — tiny clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, make a more playful, higher-energy version of the voiceover we just did — same words, different vibe."
ElevenLabs — short clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, read this line three ways — calm/luxury, bubbly/fun, and confident/bold — so I can pick our brand voice."
ElevenLabs — a few tiny clips (uses more credits)
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, slow this voiceover down slightly and make it a touch warmer — same script."
ElevenLabs — short clip
📻
Longer-form & internal
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, turn this 150-word brand-story paragraph into a polished voiceover for our About page video."
ElevenLabs — medium clip (more credits)
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, record this welcome message for the new-hire onboarding deck in a friendly voice."
ElevenLabs — short clip
Creates audio
"Using ElevenLabs, voice these five product names cleanly so we can drop them into a sizzle reel."
ElevenLabs — tiny clips
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Tie it into content workflows
Multi-connector
"Write an on-brand 15-second reel script for our new gold hoops, then use ElevenLabs to turn it into a warm voiceover and give me the download link."
Claude writes + ElevenLabs — short clip
Multi-connector
"Pull the approved hero shot for this piece from Canto, write a short caption in our voice, and make an ElevenLabs voiceover of it so I have both the image and the audio."
Canto + ElevenLabs — short clip
Multi-connector
"Draft three voiceover script options for this product, then generate just the one I pick with ElevenLabs (so we don't burn credits on all three)."
Claude drafts + ElevenLabs — one short clip
Multi-connector
"Take our best-selling SKU from ShopMy this month, write a 15-second 'fan favorite' script, and voice it with ElevenLabs for a promo."
ShopMy + ElevenLabs — short clip
Multi-connector
"Write captions and matching ElevenLabs voiceovers for a 3-post launch series — generate each one only after I approve the script."
Claude writes + ElevenLabs — short clips (you approve each)
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Live artifacts, dashboards & spreadsheets
Analysis
“Create a live artifact: a credit dashboard that checks our ElevenLabs subscription on every open and warns past 80% of the monthly cap.”
ElevenLabs — live artifact (free reads)
Analysis
“Build a voiceover library artifact tracking the clips we've generated, with their links and scripts.”
ElevenLabs — library
Analysis
“Make a spreadsheet (.xlsx) logging this month's voiceover requests and their character costs.”
ElevenLabs — xlsx
Analysis
“Before generating: add today's script to the tracker artifact, estimate the character spend, and ask me to confirm.”
ElevenLabs — spends credits
Analysis
“Create a workflow artifact: script in, MP3 link out, cost logged — one page for the whole voiceover pipeline.”
ElevenLabs — workflow
Limitations, caveats & risk (please read)
Topic
What to know
Status
Spends paid credits
Every voiceover costs money, billed per character against MM's shared Creator-plan account, which has a limited monthly character budget. Generate intentionally; don't regenerate casually.
Costs money
Shared account, no per-person meter
Everyone draws on the same pool of credits, and there's no per-person tracking. Be considerate — heavy use affects everyone's budget. If it's running low, tell David.
Shared
Download link expires
Claude can't play audio in the chat; it returns an MP3 download link valid for 24 hours. Save the file promptly to your team's asset storage.
24h link
Broad key for now
The connector currently uses a broad ElevenLabs key. A tighter, voiceover-scoped key with a hard credit cap is a planned follow-up before wider rollout — until then, the "use thoughtfully" guidance matters more.
Improving
Voiceover-focused (v1)
v1 is text-to-speech only. Voice-cloning and transcription are technically possible on the underlying service but are not turned on yet.
By design
Long scripts
Very long scripts may hit a per-request length ceiling and need to be split. For social, keep reads short — it's cheaper and sounds better anyway.
Keep it short
Get help, request features, or report something odd
Something looks wrong (or credits are low)?
If a generation fails, a link won't download, or you see signs the monthly credit budget is running low — tell David. Include what you asked and what you got back (a screenshot helps).
Want more capability?
Want a capped voiceover-only key, longer-form narration, or voice-cloning/transcription turned on down the road? Send the idea to David. These are on the roadmap and can be prioritized.
Best test: generate a tiny script (like "Hello from Melinda Maria!") so you spend next to nothing while confirming it works. If that fails, that's the thing to send David.
What is a live artifact and how to share it
Short version: a live artifact is a page Claude builds once and then refreshes every single time you open it — so a dashboard you ask for today is still accurate next month. Here is what one is, and the three ways to get it in front of your team.
📊 NEW — build live artifacts, dashboards & spreadsheets with this connector
A live artifact is a small interactive page Claude builds and saves for you — a dashboard, tracker, or report that pulls fresh data from this connector every time you open it, instead of being a frozen snapshot. In a Cowork session, just ask: “create a live artifact that…” — it lands in your Artifacts list, reusable forever, and its charts and tables refresh themselves on open.
Sharing with the team: artifacts are saved to your Claude account. Three easy ways to share: (1) ask Claude to export a snapshot (PDF, image, or .xlsx) and drop it in Slack; (2) send a teammate the prompt that built it — their copy fills with live data through their own connector sign-in; (3) for a permanent all-team dashboard, that’s the MM Intelligence project on the AI roadmap.
How it works — architecture
Reminder: this connector spends paid ElevenLabs credits on every voiceover (shared MM Creator-plan key, limited monthly characters). The architecture below is built around that — and around the fact that Claude can't play audio in the chat.
ElevenLabs is different from our other connectors in two ways: it does something (makes audio) rather than reading data, and it runs the official ElevenLabs server inside a container, wrapped by our usual access gate. Here's the build:
Self-hosted on Melinda Maria’s own Cloudflare account at elevenlabs-mcp.melindamaria.ai/mcp — the same hosting + Google sign-in pattern as our other connectors. All traffic over HTTPS/TLS.
Credit-spending — use thoughtfully
Unlike our read-only connectors, every voiceover costs real ElevenLabs credits from a shared, limited monthly pool on the MM Creator plan. It's safe, but it isn't free — generate what you need, not endless test takes.
Why a container?
Rather than rebuild ElevenLabs' tooling, we run their official MCP server unchanged inside a Python container, then wrap it with our standard Google sign-in gate. You get the full official capability with MM's security around it.
Why a download link?
Claude can't play audio inside the chat, so the Worker saves each MP3 for 24 hours and hands you a link to grab it. Save the file when you get it — the link expires after a day.
How it works (the 30-second version)
You don't need to understand the plumbing to use it — but here's the simple picture:
You give Claude a script
e.g. "make a warm 15-second voiceover from this caption." Claude sends the words to ElevenLabs, which charges credits by character length.
You get an audio file
ElevenLabs returns an MP3; Claude hands you a download link good for 24 hours. Grab it and save it — Claude can't play it back inside the chat.
Everything happens behind a secure sign-in. The connector only works for people signing in with a @melindamaria.com or @7ate9.com Google account. The ElevenLabs key stays server-side and is never visible to you or to Claude.
Melinda Maria · ElevenLabs Connector Team Guide · June 25, 2026 · creates audio · spends shared credits · sign in with your Google work account.
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