ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 when the script has clock times, units and delivery windows in it
Nine adverts out of ten for a shop end on a number: what time to order by, how many days to return, how long delivery takes. This engine has a field for text normalisation and it actually performs it — "24 h" in the script came back as "24 godziny", in the right form. That sounds like a detail right up until you have forty product descriptions to expand by hand.
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The script the engine was given
Zamówienia złożone do 14:00 wysyłamy tego samego dnia. Paczka dochodzi w 24 h, a na zwrot masz 30 dni — bez pytań i bez opłat.
Specification
- Built by
- ElevenLabs
- Speaks Polish
- yes — checked on a Polish sentence
- Ready-made voices
- 20
- Steering the delivery
- sliders: stability and expressiveness
- File from the engine
- mp3
- Render time
- about 10s
- Cost
- 1 credit per 1000 characters, rounded up
What it is good for
- Abbreviations and clock times expand themselves
- A separate field turns normalisation on rather than leaving it to the engine to decide. Our test: "24 h" came out as "24 godziny". You do not rewrite shorthand before recording, which across a product catalogue is the difference between an hour of work and one click.
- Fields for the text before and after
- The engine takes the previous and next sentence, which it does not read — they exist so it knows it is in the middle of a paragraph. On a long description cut into parts, that is the only way the stitched reads do not sound like a list of separate sentences.
- Four sliders, not one
- Stability, similarity to the voice, style and a speed between 0.7 and 1.2. Set once, they can be saved as the brand read instead of being found again from scratch on every advert.
When to pick something else
It is not the quickest of the ten and it publishes no character limit, so a very long script has to be cut by hand and held together with the before and after fields. If you are auditioning takes and only the wait matters, ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5 has the same twenty voices and the same sliders and comes back sooner. If you want to steer the mood mid-sentence rather than across the whole read, that is ElevenLabs v3. And if you need a pause of an exact length in an exact place, none of these three can be asked for one — MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD can.
See every modelHow to brief this model
The things this engine handles differently from the rest. The habits that hold for every model are collected separately, in the help centre.
- Turn text normalisation on explicitly rather than leaving it on automatic. It is what turns "24 h" into "24 godziny" — measured on this engine, not promised.
- Split a long description into paragraphs and give each one the sentence before and the sentence after. The engine does not read them, but they are why the parts sound like one recording rather than a stitch.
- Set the language code to Polish. The engine errors on a language it does not support, so it is a check rather than a decoration.
- Keep speed between 0.7 and 1.2 — outside that range the job is rejected rather than clamped to the limit.
- Raise stability when you are recording a series in one voice. A low value gives more expression and less repeatability, and across forty products repeatability is what you want.
Questions about this model
Other models
- MiniMax Speech 2.8 HDA Polish voice with an emotion you pick and pauses you place.
- MiniMax Speech 2.8 TurboThe same Polish voice as HD, back sooner. For auditioning takes.
- ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5The shortest wait of the ten. For short adverts and quick takes.
- ElevenLabs v3You write the mood into the middle of the sentence, in square brackets.
- VibeVoice 7BTwo people talking in one file. In Polish.
- KokoroEnglish only, and nothing to configure. For adverts abroad.
- Chatterbox HDThe only engine here that will speak in your own voice.
- Orpheus TTSA laugh or a sigh mid-sentence. English, and slowly.
- DiaTwo people out of one text field. No voice to choose.
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