Connect ElevenLabs to enable voice AI in your app
You can connect your Lovable app to ElevenLabs to add voice AI features like turning text into speech, transcribing audio, or creating sound effects. This lets your app deliver spoken responses or interact with users through voice.
Anyone building an app that needs to use spoken audio or voice interaction as a main feature.
Do this, in order
- 1
Sign in to your ElevenLabs account and go to the API keys page.
This is where you'll create a special key that allows Lovable to securely access ElevenLabs features.
- 2
Create a new API key, give it a clear name, and turn on 'Restrict Key'.
Restricting the key helps keep your account secure by limiting what Lovable can do with it.
- 3
Set a monthly credit limit for the key and choose only the ElevenLabs features your app needs, making sure to include read access for usage and user information.
Setting a credit limit helps manage your ElevenLabs costs, and selecting specific features enhances security. Lovable needs to read usage info to confirm the key works.
- 4
Copy the generated API key and keep it safe.
You'll need this key in the next step to connect ElevenLabs to Lovable.
- 5
In Lovable, go to 'Connectors', select 'ElevenLabs', and click 'Add connection'.
This starts the process of linking your ElevenLabs account to your Lovable workspace.
- 6
Give your connection a display name (like 'ElevenLabs Production') and paste your ElevenLabs API key into the 'API Key' field.
The display name helps you identify this specific connection in Lovable, and the API key authenticates your Lovable app with ElevenLabs.
- 7
Decide if you want to share this connection with others in your workspace or keep it private to yourself.
Sharing allows other team members to use this ElevenLabs connection in their projects without needing their own API key.
- 8
Click 'Connect' to finalize the setup.
Lovable will check if the key is valid and then save your ElevenLabs connection, making it available for your projects.
Paste this into your project
Connect my app to ElevenLabs so I can generate speech from text and transcribe audio. I want to use a voice assistant that answers questions aloud with a selected voice.
Words decoded
- API key
- A secret code that acts like a password, allowing one computer program (like your Lovable app) to securely talk to another program (like ElevenLabs) and use its features.
- transcribe audio
- To convert spoken words from an audio recording into written text.
- voice agent
- An AI program that can understand and respond to spoken language, acting like a conversational assistant.
- connector
- A tool in Lovable that lets your app easily use features from other online services, like ElevenLabs, by handling the technical details for you.
- endpoints
- Specific functions or features offered by an online service (like ElevenLabs) that your app can request to use, such as 'turn text into speech' or 'transcribe audio'.
- speaker diarization
- The process of identifying who spoke when in an audio recording, labeling different voices in a transcript.
Where people get stuck
- Forgetting to restrict your API key or not setting a credit limit can lead to unexpected costs or security risks.
- Not including read access for usage and user information when restricting your API key will prevent Lovable from verifying the connection.
- Sharing your API key publicly or not storing it securely can compromise your ElevenLabs account.
- Deleting a connection permanently removes it and stops any app features that rely on it until a new connection is set up.
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