Building an Interactive Audio Story Generator with GPT and ElevenLabs

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A DEV Community tutorial walks through creating a web app that turns a short text prompt into a narrated audio story with multiple character voices. The proposed pipeline has a front end sending the prompt to a story engine, which uses a GPT model to produce a structured script of speaker-tagged lines. Each line is then converted to speech through the ElevenLabs text-to-speech API, with voices assigned per character, including optional cloned voices. A minimal Python Flask backend saves the resulting MP3 files and returns their URLs in playback order. The article also includes a curl example for testing the ElevenLabs endpoint directly.

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