TL;DR
What did u/Sad_Ad_4320 use ElevenLabs for?
A creator of phone audio dramas made a 55-minute, six-voice story on ElevenLabs v4 and found that a handful of emotion tags and careful punctuation steer the read best. They say v4 "sounds a little crisper to my ear" than v3, and the story runs about 55 minutes.
What they did
They made a five-chapter story with six ElevenLabs library voices, with scripts written with AI tools under their direction. They tag 5 to 8 lines a chapter, since "[tense]" and "[nervous]" landed while "[angry]" was too much. They split a question in two to fix the pitch ("You can't? Or you won't?") and ran one voice through a small-speaker filter after rendering.
How it went
They say v4 "sounds a little crisper to my ear" than v3, and the story runs about 55 minutes.
Worth knowing
- Some commenters criticized the character voices and pacing, and one objected to AI-written scripts.
- Price check: ElevenLabs: free plan; Starter: US$6/month, or US$5/month on a yearly plan (US$60/year) (checked Nov 1, 2026).
Try it yourself
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Here is a chapter of my audio drama script: [paste]. Suggest where to put at most eight emotion tags, rewrite any lines whose punctuation could make a text-to-speech voice stress the wrong word, and mark lines that need a retake if they sound flat.
Original post
See u/Sad_Ad_4320's original post on Reddit → (Oct 1, 2026)
Sources
- u/Sad_Ad_4320 on Reddit, Oct 1, 2026 — the original post
- ElevenLabs pricing — checked Nov 1, 2026