Start with the book, then choose the cast

ElevenCreative Audiobooks accepts an EPUB or PDF manuscript and parses its chapters and other sections. Choose Multi cast and ElevenLabs identifies likely speakers, including the narrator, then proposes a voice for each character. You can exclude material such as a copyright page before production.

The useful step is auditioning a suggested voice on dialogue from the actual book. A character who sounds convincing in a generic voice sample may feel wrong saying their own lines. Authors can review the shortlist, explore other voices, and change assignments before generating the audiobook.

Check every speaker and invented word

Character detection is a starting point. ElevenLabs warns that minor, unnamed, or ambiguous speakers can be missed, so inspect the cast and correct voice assignments where the system has confused dialogue with narration. In the editor, voice settings can also be changed for selected paragraphs. The current Character Casting limit is 150 detected voices per book.

The Pronunciations step suggests names, places, and unusual terms from the manuscript. Add or edit rules for invented words, then play the surrounding sentence to hear whether the pronunciation works in context. The suggestions may miss important terms, and a changed dictionary rule only affects newly generated audio.

Review the performance before export

In the editor, narration is generated paragraph by paragraph. You can adjust text, voice settings, or timing and regenerate a section that needs another take. Once a generated paragraph sounds right, locking it protects that version from accidental changes; it can be unlocked later.

Changing a character's voice after generation requires new audio for that character and uses credits. Export can produce the whole project or individual chapters as MP3 or WAV, either in one file or a chapter-based ZIP. Sections that have not been generated will be completed during export and also use credits. Listen through the result before distributing it: the casting proposal and the finished performance are separate editorial decisions.

Sources & verification

Prepared with AI assistance from ElevenLabs's official documentation. XANTRANS has not independently tested this workflow.