Your setup guide

Set up your ElevenLabs account

The account has to be yours. Not ours, not a shared one — yours, in your name. This is the one part of the whole process nobody can do on your behalf.

What that gets you is worth having. The voice model is yours and stays yours. It sits in an account you own, on a card you control. If you ever stopped working with us it would not leave with us, because it was never ours to take. We work inside your account with a key you create and can revoke in one click, which is Step 6.

What to do

1. Go to elevenlabs.io/sign-up and create an account in your own name, using a clinic email you will keep access to.
2. Open elevenlabs.io/pricing and subscribe to the Creator plan.

• ElevenLabs account created in my name
• Creator plan active on the account

Choose your script topics

Before you record anything, we need to know what the scripts should be about. Tick what fits, cross out what does not, and add anything we have missed. Then we write the scripts and send them to you.

You are not writing anything here — you are pointing. We turn what you pick into about 100 short scripts, each 22 to 40 seconds long. That comes to roughly an hour of speech, which is what makes a voice clone sound like you rather than like a machine doing an impression of you.

What we are suggesting

Anything we have missed

One per line. A few words is plenty — "why people think Botox is one thing when it is really three" is a perfectly good brief.

Saves as you type.

Once you send them, we write your scripts and they appear on the next step. That usually takes us a couple of days.

Review your scripts

Here are your scripts. Read each one and tell us: happy to say it, or not. Edit anything that does not sound like you — your version wins, always.

Record your scripts

You read your scripts once. From that recording we build a model of how you speak, and after that we can produce the voiceover for any script in your own voice without you reading it.

That means no more recording sessions. When you want a new video you send us the idea and we build it. If a word changes, we change it in seconds instead of asking you to sit back down.

That is talking time, not clock time. With pauses, re-reads and a coffee, an afternoon covers it comfortably. You only ever do this once, so it is worth doing properly rather than quickly.

What you will need

Your room

Somewhere quiet. No fan, no air conditioning running, no traffic through an open window, no music. A room with soft furnishings sounds far better than a hard empty one — a walk-in closet with clothes in it genuinely beats a boardroom.

Setting up Audacity

You only do this once.

1. Open Audacity. It will ask permission to use your microphone — say yes.
2. Audio Setup → Recording Device → choose your microphone by name. Check it is not the built-in one.
3. Audio Setup → Recording Channels → 1 (Mono).
4. Bottom left of the window → set Project Rate to 48000 Hz.
5. Mac only: open Control Centre → Microphone Mode and set it to Standard. On Voice Isolation your Mac processes your voice before Audacity ever hears it, and that hurts the result.

Do a thirty second test first

Record yourself talking normally for thirty seconds, then play it back and listen. Watch the level meter while you talk. Peaks should sit around -12 and must never hit the far right — if they touch the end the recording distorts, and that cannot be fixed afterwards. Move slightly further away. If the bars barely move, you are too quiet: move closer.

Sit about a hand span from the microphone, roughly 15 to 20 cm, and slightly off to one side rather than straight into it. That stops hard P and B sounds popping.

How to record

Start the ElevenLabs recorder in its tab and leave it running. Then, in Audacity, for each script on the list below:

1. Press record.
2. Read the script.
3. Stop, and export it — File → Export → Export as WAV, into one folder you keep for this.
4. Move to the next one. Work straight down the list, in order.

The rules that matter

• Work in order, top to bottom. That order is how we know which clip is which.
• Skipping one is fine. If a script is not for you, skip it and carry on — just tick it off the list below as you go so we both know. You can also mark it on the upload step.
• If you fluff a line, record that one again and keep only the good take in the folder. Do not leave both.
• Leave the ElevenLabs tab recording throughout, including between takes. The pauses do it no harm and the unbroken take is what makes the voice sound like you.
• Read it the way you would say it to a patient sitting across from you. Warm, direct, unhurried. Whatever you sound like here is what every future video sounds like, so sound like yourself.
• Say numbers as words. If the script says "three to four months", say "three to four months".

The rest of the rules

• If you stumble, do not stop the recording. Pause two seconds, say the same ID again, and read from the top. We keep the last clean take and throw the rest away. Stopping and restarting changes your tone, which is worse than any stumble.
• Take breaks whenever you need them. If you are away for more than about five minutes, stop the recording, save that file, and start a fresh one when you come back. Your voice shifts slightly after a break and we would rather keep those separate.
• Read it the way you would say it to a patient sitting across from you. Warm, direct, unhurried. Not a radio announcer, not a presentation voice. Whatever you sound like in this recording is what every future video sounds like, so sound like yourself.
• Say numbers as words. If the script says "three to four months", say "three to four months".

You will probably finish with two to four audio files, one per stretch between breaks. That is normal and correct.

Your scripts

When you are finished

You should have one folder of clips, one per script you recorded, in the order you recorded them. That folder is the whole deliverable.

WAV is best. If the file sizes cause problems, MP3 at the highest quality setting is fine. You upload the folder on the next step — no Drive links, no email. The ElevenLabs recording stays in your account; we never need a copy.

Before you finish

• Quiet room, no fan or air conditioning
• Proper microphone, not the laptop
• Audacity set to 48000 Hz, mono
• Thirty second test recorded and listened back, peaks near -12
• Microphone distance set, and nothing moved after that
• ElevenLabs recorder left running for the whole session
• Worked straight down the list, in order
• One file exported per script, all into the same folder
• Only the good take kept where I recorded one twice

Upload your recordings

Just the folder of clips. Your ElevenLabs recording stays in your own account — we never need a copy of it.

Select every clip in the folder at once and drop them in together. We put them in the order you recorded them and match each one to its script — you do not need to have named anything.

Saves automatically.

• All my clips are uploaded and the matching looked right

Create your voice clone

This is the part only you can do. ElevenLabs verifies that the voice being cloned is the voice of the person signed in, so it has to happen in your account, from your microphone.

Use the same microphone, same room and same speaking style as your recording session. The verification compares the two, and a different setup is the usual reason it fails.

What to do

1. Sign in at elevenlabs.io/app/voice-lab.
2. Choose Add Voice → Professional Voice Clone.
3. Upload your continuous recordings — the two to four long files, not the hundred separate clips. ElevenLabs learns better from long, unbroken speech, and a hundred short files gives it a hundred starts and stops to average out.
4. Name the voice with your own name, so we can find it later.
5. Record the verification passage when prompted — same mic, same room, same voice you used for the recording.
6. Confirm the consent and training checkboxes and submit.

• Professional Voice Clone submitted with my recordings
• Verification passage recorded and accepted
• ElevenLabs emailed me that the voice is ready

Connect us to your account

So we can produce voiceovers without you, we need a key from your ElevenLabs account. You create it, you can see exactly what it is allowed to do, and you can revoke it in one click.

Create the key

1. Go to elevenlabs.io/app/settings/api-keys.
2. Click Create API Key and name it Health Hue so you can recognise it later.
3. If it offers you a scope or permissions choice, restrict the key to text to speech and reading voices. That is everything we need and nothing else. If you do not see that option, a default key is fine — it still cannot touch your billing or your password.
4. Optionally set a credit limit. We suggest leaving headroom of about half your monthly allowance.
5. Copy the key. ElevenLabs shows it once — if you lose it, delete that key and make another.

We check it against ElevenLabs before saving, so you will know immediately if it worked. It is encrypted before it is stored, and it is never shown again — not even to you on this page.

Film yourself

Talk to your phone for about two minutes at a time, 4 to 6 times, changing your outfit between them. That is the whole job.

We already have your voice. From here on we write each script, produce a clean voiceover in your voice, then lay that voiceover over this footage and match it to your mouth. So for this filming:

• We are not using the sound you record on the day — that audio gets thrown away.
• What you say does not matter. There is nothing to memorise.
• We only need your face, your expressions, and your mouth moving continuously. If you go quiet and still for a long pause, that part of the clip cannot be used.

Doing this again every 2 to 3 months in different clothes keeps a year of videos from looking like one afternoon.

The app to use

Download Blackmagic Camera. It is free, it is made by Blackmagic Design — the people who make professional cinema cameras — and it exists on both iPhone and Android. You record with it instead of your normal camera app because it lets you lock the settings, so the picture does not drift halfway through a take. Your built-in camera app is constantly re-deciding brightness and colour, and that flicker is very hard to fix afterwards.

Set your phone up once

Where you sit in the frame

We put titles, captions and graphics in the space above your head. That only works if the space is there, so these four rules matter as much as the light does.

1. Turn the phone sideways and film landscape (16:9), wide like a TV. Check the preview is wider than it is tall before you press record. From a landscape clip we can make both the wide video and the tall one for Reels and TikTok. A clip filmed with the phone upright only gives us the tall one, because turning it into a wide video cuts off the space above your head.
2. Sit in the bottom half of the frame. The top of your head should sit about halfway down the screen, so the whole top half is open space. If your app shows a grid of thirds, your eyes land a little above the lower line.
3. Stay in the middle third, left to right. We cut the tall version from the centre of the frame, so keep your head and shoulders inside the middle third.
4. Keep the wall above your head plain. That is where the text goes. Shelves, plants, picture frames and windows directly above or behind your head make the text hard to read. Things off to the sides are fine.

Set the room up once

• Phone on a tripod about 5 feet (1.5 m) away, at 1×, kept level, with the lens about a hand's width above your eyes.
• Main light in front of you, from the left or right at about 45 degrees, slightly above your eyes. A big window facing you works well. Soft light is best.
• Never sit with a window or bright lamp behind you — you will be a silhouette.
• Never use a light straight overhead — it throws shadows under your eyes.
• If one side of your face is too dark, put something white just out of frame on that side to bounce a little light back. A little shadow on one side is good; you are not trying to flatten your face out.

You will be talking direct to camera, so look at the lens. If you ever want an interview-style look instead, look 10 to 15 degrees off to the side — just pick one or the other for a batch and keep it.

Sound

We still want a clean sound track, so some clips can go out exactly as they are, and so we have something to match against.

• Use a lavalier (clip-on) or USB condenser mic, never the phone's built-in mic.
• Aim for peaks around -12 dB, no clipping. If the meter is hitting the top, turn it down.
• If the mic records into a separate device like your Mac, clap once on camera at the start of every take so we can line the two up.

Do a 30 second test

Record 30 seconds, play it back, and check five things:

1. Your face is sharp, in focus.
2. The brightness holds steady as you move — exposure is not pulsing.
3. The audio is clean at around -12 dB, no clipping or distortion.
4. There is no hum or buzz.
5. The clip plays back wide, with the top of your head about halfway down and plain wall above you.

Fix anything that is off, then do not touch the setup again for the rest of the session.

What to do for each clip

1. Talk for two minutes, one continuous take.
2. Say anything at all. Explain a treatment the way you would to a patient, talk through your morning, or describe your weekend. Explaining a treatment usually looks best, because your face changes when you are making a point.
3. Keep talking. Long silent pauses are the one thing that makes a clip unusable, because we need to see your mouth moving the whole time.
4. Look at the lens, not at yourself on the screen.
5. Move normally. Use your hands if it helps you talk — just keep them below your chin and do not let them cross your face.
6. Change something, then go again. Change your outfit, or stand instead of sit. If you stand or move the tripod, check the frame again before you roll: top of your head halfway down, plain wall above you.

Aim for 4 to 6 clips in a session. More outfits are better if you have the energy, and changing your top is quick. Moving to another room is slower because the light has to be set again, so only switch walls if it is easy.

• Phone locked to 4K/30, 1×, Rec.709, manual white balance
• Tripod 5 feet away, phone level, lens a hand's width above my eyes, light in front at 45°
• 30 second test recorded and checked
• 4 to 6 clips, about two minutes each, different outfits
• Kept talking throughout — no long silent pauses
• Phone sideways (landscape), top of my head halfway down, plain wall above me

Upload your footage

Send each clip exactly as it came off the phone. Do not stitch them together, do not trim them, do not edit or compress them. These untouched files are the raw files we need.

• All my clips are uploaded and showing as done above
• I sent the original files, untrimmed and uncompressed

Send us your script ideas

This is the part that keeps going. Everything above happens once — this is how you feed the machine from here on.

You do not need to write scripts. You need to tell us what is worth saying. The best ones almost always come from your day: the question you answer for the fifth time this week, the thing patients get wrong, the treatment you wish people understood before they booked.

Saves automatically. Come back and add to it whenever something comes up — you do not need to wait for us to ask.

• I have sent through my first batch of ideas