Use ElevenLabs Instead of TTS for Audio

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Original Canny votes: 0 | Status: Under Review

The current Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice used in LingQ is too robotic and lacks natural emotion, which can negatively affect the language learning experience.

Proposal: Integrate ElevenLabs (or a similar high-quality neural TTS service) as an alternative to the current TTS voice. ElevenLabs produces significantly more natural, expressive, and human-like audio, which would improve:

  • Listening comprehension practice
  • Pronunciation modeling
  • Overall immersion in the target language

Original Canny post: Use ElevenLabs instead of TTS | Feature Requests | LingQ

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Eleven Labs voices are now available for Plus members. Closing this thread.

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@mark this doesn’t work for lifetime plans.

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Ok, we’ll see what we can do there. Probably it would have to be in the form of a monthly add-on for Plus enhancements. Let me look into this.

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Note This would also be beneficial for those learning Ukrainian who may like the premium voices :slight_smile:

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Premium voices + shortcuts that play the voice at a chosen speed (perhaps global per language, e.g., Greek plays at 70% speed and Spanish plays at normal speed; when you press a or s, whichever it is.).

would be ideal.

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These are good ideas but should be posted as new threads so that others can vote on them and we can see which ideas are most sought after.

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I can’t create new threads.

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