Best PromptsElevenLabs Narration Voice Direction
Direct ElevenLabs TTS narration with v3 audio tags, pacing, and pause control for explainer videos, audiobooks, and product demos.
Narration script formatting for ElevenLabs (v3 model): Delivery direction with audio tags: placed inline, right before the text they affect: - Emotion: [curious] [excited] [sarcastic] [somber] - Delivery: [whispers] [shouts] [flatly] [deadpan] - Reactions: [laughs] [sighs] [gasps] [clears throat] [exhales] - Pacing: [pauses] [hesitates] - Tags stack: [somber][whispers] for a quiet, heavy moment. Punctuation as direction: - Em dash, for a beat of hesitation. "..." for a longer, thoughtful pause. - CAPITALIZE a single word only when it must be stressed, at most one per paragraph. - Break the script into short paragraphs; each becomes a natural breath group. - Spell out ambiguous items phonetically: "S-Q-L", "twenty twenty-six". Example formatted script: """ Most teams don't have a writing problem... they have a deciding problem. [sighs] Every document you've abandoned (every draft sitting at ninety percent) stalled at the same spot: nobody decided what it was FOR. [curious] Here's the fix. Before you write a single word, finish this sentence: "After reading this, my reader will..." """ Settings: use Creative or Natural mode for tag-responsive delivery (Robust mode ignores tags). Start around Stability 45 / Similarity 75; raise Stability toward 60 for audiobooks, lower toward 35 for energetic promos. [PASTE YOUR SCRIPT AND REFORMAT IT USING THE RULES ABOVE]
How to use
Use audio tags sparingly: one or two per paragraph reads as human; one per sentence reads as unhinged. Generate paragraph by paragraph for long scripts: regenerating a short block that reads wrong is cheaper than re-rolling ten minutes. Audition 3-4 voices with the same test paragraph before committing, and prefer voices marked as optimized for v3. They respond to tags far better.
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