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Building a Python Text-to-Speech App with the ElevenLabs API

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A DEV Community tutorial explains how to create a Python program that converts written text into spoken audio using ElevenLabs' neural voice API. It notes that modern text-to-speech has moved beyond robotic output to capture emotion and intonation, which makes it useful for chatbots, accessibility tools, and games. The guide covers setup steps, including creating an ElevenLabs account and API key, installing the httpx, python-dotenv, and pydub packages, and installing ffmpeg. It then provides an asynchronous function that sends text to the API and saves the returned MP3, with adjustable stability and similarity settings. The article concludes with a playback helper and a sample script that generates and plays speech.

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