The ElevenLabs Voice Library has thousands of voices made by other creators, and the hard part is narrowing them down. Here’s the quickest way I’ve found to search it, filter it, and get a voice into Text to Speech.
Where the Voice Library lives
Open Voices and stay on the Explore tab. Trending voices sit at the top, with handpicked collections for different uses underneath. Next to Explore is My Voices, which is where any voice you add ends up.
Search in plain words
Type what you want into the search box, the way you’d describe it to a person. When I searched for “warm narrator”, the library returned 698 voices. Each row shows the language and accent, how many people have added the voice, and its category.
Narrow it down with filters
Open Filters to narrow the list by quality, gender and age. There’s also the notice period: in ElevenLabs’ words, the time you can continue using a voice after its owner decides to remove it from the library. If you’re planning a long project, it’s worth a look.
Setting Quality to Studio took my search from 698 voices to 178. Picking the Narration category chip under the search box brought it down to 129, which is a list you can actually work through.
Preview, then add
Click a voice’s picture to play its preview, and listen past the first sentence before you decide. When you find one you like, the plus button adds it to My Voices, so it’s waiting in your voice picker later.
Use it in Text to Speech
The waveform button next to a voice opens it straight in Text to Speech. Paste your script, check the model and settings, and generate.
A note on my own voice
One of the voices in the library is mine: Ian: Narrative, Warm and Casual. I earn a share when people use it, so weigh my opinion of it with that in mind, and compare it with the others.
Hear voices side by side
If you’d rather not audition voices one at a time, the voices on this site all read the same script, so you can compare them directly. Ready to try it yourself? Start with ElevenLabs (affiliate link).