ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 is a high-quality, production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) model focused on consistency, natural delivery, and strong multilingual performance. Within Artlist, it is positioned as a dependable, neutral-sounding model that delivers very natural speech across many languages, making it a strong default choice for narration-heavy and multilingual workflows where reliability and consistency matter more than strong expressiveness or performance acting.
Key Features
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Highly Natural, Stable Speech
- Produces smooth, natural-sounding, dependable narration with excellent consistency between generations. Ideal for high volumes of work.
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Multilingual Support
- Supports a wide range of languages in a stable manner, making it suitable for international and localized content, while maintaining high similarity of voice between languages.
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Consistency & Naturalness
- Excels at maintaining a consistent voice and tone across multiple generations and longer scripts.
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Main Weakness: Voice Actor Performance Replication
- For some voices, does not accurately replicate the original voice actor’s delivery or expressive style.
Technical Capabilities
- Modalities: Text to Speech
- Custom Voice Cloning: Not supported
- Supported Settings: Speed control (0.5-1.5), Voice Effects
- Emotions available: Emotional delivery controlled via a “Stability” slider, with values 0-100. 0 = Very emotional and unpredictable. 100 = Very stable, book-reading delivery.
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Voice Tags Options:
- Add pause; for one second pause, insert “<break time="1s" />” as part of the prompt
- Accents Available: Only the voice actor’s native accent
- Languages Available: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian
Best Use Cases
Professional, Natural, Dependable Reads
Strong choice for educational, corporate or instructional content that benefits from natural and stable delivery.
Long-Form Narration
Well-suited for longer scripts where stable tone and voice continuity are essential.
Multilingual Voiceovers
Ideal for global content, localized ads, explainers, and narration requiring consistent quality across many languages.
Strengths and Limitations
Strengths
- Excellent Stability: Very consistent results across generations.
- Natural Prosody: Speech sounds human and well-paced without heavy prompting.
- Broad Language Coverage: One of the strongest multilingual options available.
Limitations
- Limited Control Surface: No audio tags, emotion presets, or speech-to-speech capabilities.
- Less Expressive: Not ideal for character-driven or highly emotional scripts.
Tips for Better Prompts
- Keep Scripts Straightforward: Clear, direct writing yields the most natural results.
- Tune Stability Carefully: Adjust the stability slider to balance natural variation with consistency
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Use Punctuation for Rhythm: Commas, periods, exclamation marks, and parentheses can be used to direct and guide natural, more expressive pacing.
- For example, for a more dramatic effect, the phrase:
- “Listen, If we walk away today, me, you, all of us, we may never get another chance.”
- Can be written:
- “Listen… If we walk away today? me… you… all of us: we may never! get another chance...”
- For example, for a more dramatic effect, the phrase:
- Add context: If optional for your workflow, add context to the prompt, and later cut it out using an editing software. For example, instead of “This is how you do it.”, write “And then the smug man softly said: “This is how you do it.””
- Spell out numbers and dates: instead of “Using Elevenlabs version 2.0 is great”, type out “Using Elevenlabs version two point oh is great.
- Insert Pauses Intentionally: Use “<break time="1s" />” to add pauses to create emphasis or breathing room. For a two-second pause, for example, add “<break time="2s" />”
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