Episode Details

🎙️ What if you could create professional voiceovers, narrate an entire audiobook or even clone your own voice without stepping inside a recording studio?

AI-generated voices have improved dramatically. ElevenLabs can now turn written scripts into realistic speech, recreate your own voice and even translate content into other languages while attempting to preserve the original speaker’s voice and delivery.

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But how good is it really? And what should you know before handing an AI company a digital version of your voice?

In this episode of The AI and Marketing Podcast for Local Businesses, Adam and Josh put ElevenLabs under the microscope, exploring what it can do, where it still falls short and the practical ways businesses can use AI-generated audio.

Adam also shares his experience using ElevenLabs to create the audiobook version of his own book, including the pronunciation problems, quality-control challenges and lessons he has learned along the way.

Here is what we break down 👇

🎙️ What ElevenLabs actually does. From realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning to audiobooks, dubbing, transcription, sound effects and conversational voice agents.

👤 How AI voice cloning works. We explore instant and professional voice cloning, plus why the quality of your original recordings can make a huge difference.

📘 Creating an audiobook with AI. Adam shares what he has learned turning Becoming a Strategic Business Leaderinto an audiobook and why uploading a manuscript and pressing "generate" is definitely not enough.

🎧 The best business use cases. Social media voiceovers, website explainers, product demonstrations, staff training, onboarding and educational content.

🌍 Creating multilingual content. Discover how AI dubbing could help businesses take one piece of content and adapt it for audiences around the world.

🗣️ Fixing pronunciation problems. We discuss pronunciation dictionaries, names, acronyms and specialist terminology, plus why human review remains essential.

⚙️ Our recommended ElevenLabs workflow. Start small, prepare your script for speech, test different voices, generate audio in manageable sections and carefully review the finished result.

💰 Credits, pricing and regenerating audio. Why generating huge sections at once can waste credits and why smaller blocks make corrections easier.

⚠️ Where AI voices still struggle. Incorrect pronunciation, unnatural emphasis, strange pauses and emotional delivery can still reveal the limitations of AI narration.

🔐 Voice cloning, ownership and consent. What businesses should consider before cloning voices, including security, permission and responsible use.

🏷️ Should you disclose an AI-generated voice? We discuss when transparency matters, particularly with audiobooks, podcasts, testimonials and personal communications.

⚖️ AI voice vs human voice actors. AI is becoming extremely capable for functional narration, but great human performers can still bring interpretation, emotion and instinct that AI struggles to reproduce.

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