Make the voice-over with ElevenLabs

15 min read · Intermediate · Guide 5 of 9

ElevenLabs turns your script into a natural voice. Use it for English and French. Today it does not list Haitian Creole, so Kreyòl audio comes from a person (step 4) or from HeyGen (guide 6).

1. Choose a voice

Pick a voice from the ElevenLabs voice library, or make a clone of your OWN voice. You can only make a Professional Voice Clone of your own voice, even when someone else agrees. If a co-teacher wants to lend their voice, they clone it on their own account and share it with you (ElevenLabs help).

2. Make the audio one paragraph at a time

Paste one paragraph, make it, and listen. Short pieces are easier to fix than one long file. Keep the same voice and the same settings for a whole course.

3. Fix what sounds wrong in the text

If a name or number sounds wrong, change how you write it, not the voice. Write "five hundred gourdes" instead of "500 HTG". Spell a hard name the way it sounds.

4. Record the Kreyòl version with a person

Ask your Kreyòl speaker, or record it yourself if you are fluent. Use a phone in a quiet room with soft things around (a closet with clothes works well). Hold the phone a hand's width from the mouth and record one paragraph at a time.

5. Export light files

Export MP3. Voice alone does not need high quality, and smaller files load faster on 2G. Name each file by lesson and language, for example "L1-fr.mp3".

Kreyòl check: the speaker listens to the full Kreyòl audio once before you make the video.