How to Make a LinkedIn Voiceover with ElevenLabs
A practical 2026 path: write a 30–60 second professional script, pick a Voice Library voice, generate the read in Text to Speech, tweak pacing, download WAV, and export a 1:1 or 4:5 file you can post native on LinkedIn. Built from ElevenLabs' live Text to Speech help and pricing (August 2026).
Most “AI LinkedIn voiceover” posts skip the two facts that actually decide the file. First: a thirty-to-sixty second feed take is not a landing-page close, and it is not a talking-head you never booked. Second: a free-tier preview is not a track you put on a company page. This guide is the working path for the spoken post — script, voice, generate, pace, download, export a native video — using the one voice desk we send for this brief: ElevenLabs.
When a stock ElevenLabs voice is enough — and when you want a clip or a face
Use ElevenLabs when the open is a short, realistic read you will regenerate. A weekly point of view. A launch note under a still. A hiring line on B-roll you already have. The economic case is the recut: edit the sentence, generate again, replace the clip. You do not re-book a booth for forty-five seconds, and you do not invent a presenter for a file that only needed speech.
Skip ElevenLabs if the talk already happened and the words are the product. That file is a recut of the real speaker, and the working path on this site is How to make LinkedIn clips with Klap — an ordinary guide link, not a second money hop. Skip both if there is no footage and the post still needs a face. That is How to make LinkedIn videos with Synthesia. Synthesia is the foil, not a Try button. Skip a stock library voice if the page is a named founder’s voice and you do not have a clone yet. That is a training-set job, not this brief.
The seven-step ElevenLabs LinkedIn voiceover
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Write a 30–60 second LinkedIn script — the take, one proof, one comment or DM
A LinkedIn voiceover is a spoken post, not a landing-page close and not a four-minute explainer. Time it out loud: thirty seconds is the claim plus one proof; sixty is that plus a second beat and one ask. Open on the line a muted scroller has to read in three seconds. Prove it with one number or one mistake a peer can check. Close by asking for a comment or a DM — not a pricing URL. Spell names, titles, and abbreviations the way they should be heard on a company page. If you wanted a 15–45s sales pitch for a landing page, that is the sales-voiceover how-to. If you wanted a 2–5 minute YouTube narration, that is the YouTube-voiceover how-to.
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Confirm a generated VO is the right LinkedIn format
Use ElevenLabs when the missing piece is a short, professional read you can regenerate when the take or the number changes, and the picture already exists — B-roll, a still, a screen, a founder cut you will not re-light. Skip it if the talk already happened and you need to recut the real speaker for the feed. That is a clipper job, and that how-to is an ordinary path on this site. Skip it if the post needs a presenter on camera and you have no footage. That is a talking-head, and that how-to is also an ordinary path. Skip a library voice if the page is a named founder and buyers would notice a stranger. That is a clone, not this brief.
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Open Text to Speech — the speech playground, not Agents
ElevenLabs’ published product for this brief is Text to Speech: paste text, pick a voice, generate speech, download a file. That is the desk this page is written for. ElevenAgents is a different product (conversational agents). Studio is a longer project surface for chaptered work. Image & Video on the pricing page is a different surface — we are not inventing an MP4 download from the speech playground. This page sends you to ElevenLabs only. LinkedIn itself is just linkedin.com — a normal site, not a hop.
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Sit on a plan that grants commercial rights before you treat the file as a company-page post
ElevenLabs’ own docs are explicit: you keep ownership of generated audio, but commercial usage rights come with paid plans. Free is an audition — published pricing lists 10,000 credits a month and no commercial license. Starter is the first paid tier that lists a commercial license and Instant Voice Cloning. Professional Voice Cloning is listed on Creator and above. Confirm the live grid on elevenlabs.io/pricing. We do not invent a checkout total or a commission rate. Do not publish a free-tier read on a brand or founder page.
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Pick a Voice Library voice — one narrator for the week of posts
Open Voices and browse Default Voices or the Voice Library. Preview before you apply. Cast one narrator and keep it for this take and for the recut next month. Filter toward calm, professional reads, then listen on headphones — a LinkedIn VO should sound like a colleague finishing a thought, not a cinematic whisper and not a first-second Reel hook. A stock voice is enough when the page has no existing vocal identity. Clone only if followers would notice a stranger. Instant Voice Cloning is the published self-serve path from short samples (ElevenLabs’ cloning help: about 1–2 minutes of clean audio) on paid plans that list it. Professional Voice Cloning trains a dedicated model on a longer set (published as 30–180 minutes) and requires Creator or above. Do not invent a clone wizard here. Do not clone a customer, a podcast guest, or a voice you found on someone else’s demo.
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Paste the 30–60s script, pick a model, generate, then tweak pacing and re-roll
Type or paste the take into the text box as one short block. Voice first, then model, then settings — that is the order ElevenLabs’ Text to Speech guide ranks. For a short English LinkedIn read, Multilingual v2 is the published “most stable on long-form” model and still the safest default for a line you will reuse on a company page. Eleven v3 is the expressive model; it supports audio tags such as [sighs] or [clears throat], and it does not expose every older slider. Official starting settings for the sliders that exist: Stability around 50, Similarity around 75, Style exaggeration at 0. Speed defaults to 1.0 (range 0.7–1.2) where the model offers it — nudge Speed, or add a dash / em-dash, when the ask feels rushed. Spell out numbers. Then press Generate Speech. The model is nondeterministic — same text can yield a different take. Re-roll the first sentence until it lands; leave a clean close alone.
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Download WAV (or high-bitrate MP3), then export a LinkedIn-native video
After a generation, ElevenLabs’ help says you can download immediately from the control on the bottom right. Older takes live in History on the Text to Speech page — History lists MP3 (128 kbps) or WAV, with Advanced formats of MP3 192 / 256 kbps, M4A, and FLAC. Higher-quality options are listed on paid tiers; confirm the live download list. Text to Speech is an audio export. We do not invent an MP4 button on that playground. Name the file so the next recut is obvious:
monday_recap_li_en_v1. Then put the audio on the picture you already have: import the WAV onto a dedicated VO track, line the first word to the first picture change, leave a breath before a comment-or-DM card, and duck any music bed under the narration. Frame the timeline 1:1 or 4:5 for the organic feed — 9:16 reads as a Short you cross-posted. Burn captions so the take works muted. Export that timeline as the MP4, then upload native in the LinkedIn composer at linkedin.com — not a YouTube link sitting in a text post. When the number or the ask changes, edit the sentence, generate, bump to v2, replace the clip.
LinkedIn VO vs a clipped talk vs a talking-head
“AI LinkedIn voiceover” is a search, not a product. The decision is the input. The ElevenLabs column matches Text to Speech help and the live pricing page as of August 2026. Klap and Synthesia stay qualitative here — we already wrote those desks, and this page does not hop there.
| Criterion | ElevenLabs LinkedIn VO | Klap LinkedIn clip | Synthesia talking-head |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the feed hears / sees | A 30–60s professional read you drop on picture you already have | The real speaker, 1:1 or 4:5, from a talk that already happened | A presenter on camera saying a 30–90s take you wrote |
| When it is the right buy | The post needs speech. The picture exists. You will recut the line | The keynote or webinar already happened and the words are the product | You have no recording and the post still needs a face |
| What you re-do when the take changes | Edit the sentence, Generate Speech, replace the clip on the MP4 timeline | Re-triage the long file, or trim a different moment | Edit the scene, re-render the talking head |
| Tool this desk writes for | ElevenLabs Text to Speech — script, Voice Library, Generate Speech, download | Ordinary path: the Klap LinkedIn-clips how-to. Not a hop on this page | Ordinary path: the Synthesia LinkedIn how-to. Not a hop on this page |
| Best 2026 fit | A weekly POV or launch note that should sound like a person, not an LMS read | 3–8 professional posts from a talk you can export — see the Klap LinkedIn page | A talking-head when there is no footage — see the Synthesia LinkedIn page |
ElevenLabs
A Text to Speech take for a post that already has picture. Free plan to audition a script; a paid plan is the commercial-rights download you can put on a company page.
The script is a 30–60 second post, spoken
Do not write a cold open for a documentary. Do not write a first-second Reel hook and then pad it. Do not write a product close for a pricing page. Time the copy out loud. Thirty seconds is enough for the take and one proof. Sixty seconds is a second beat and a comment or DM. Longer than that and you are writing a different video.
A working shape, spoken at a normal pace — roughly forty seconds:
Most Monday recaps lose the next action in the first sentence. Not because the work is wrong — because nobody said who owns Tuesday.
The pattern I keep seeing: one owner, one date, one line a muted scroller can read. If your last update started with “quick sync,” cut that line. Say the consequence instead.
Comment “recap” and I will send the three-line template. Reply with the bottleneck you still have.
That is a LinkedIn voiceover. The first sentence is the take. The middle is one proof a peer can check. The last sentence is an ask you will actually answer. A URL on the end card is a landing-page move — if you need a link, put it in the first comment after you post, not as the only reason the file exists.
Spell the words the model should say. “Tuesday,” not “Tue.” “Three-line,” not “3-line.” ElevenLabs’ Text to Speech help is blunt about numbers and symbols: write them out, especially on multilingual models, because the same digit is pronounced differently across languages. A post about “Q3 ARR” needs those letters in the script the way you want them heard.
Keep one voice for this week’s take and for the recut. A library narrator that survives your title is worth more than a cinematic whisper that flubs the ask. Emotional range is not why you are here. If realism-versus-timeline is the actual question, the comparison is ElevenLabs vs Murf vs Synthesys — ordinary path, no hop. Full product notes live in our ElevenLabs review.
Pick a voice. Generate the take. Direct the pacing.
Open Text to Speech. Select a voice from the control ElevenLabs documents at the bottom left — Default Voices or the Voice Library. Preview. Apply one voice and keep it. A colleague who hears March’s POV and October’s recut should still recognize the person who said the take.
Clone only if that person has to be you. Instant Voice Cloning is the published fast path from short samples (about 1–2 minutes of clean audio in the cloning help). Professional Voice Cloning is the dedicated model: Creator plan or above, a longer training set (published as 30–180 minutes), and a wait while it fine-tunes. We are not going to invent a clone wizard on this page. If followers would notice a stranger and you do not already have the voice in My Voices, that is a different brief — come back when the clone exists.
Paste the take as one short block. Voice, then model, then
settings — ElevenLabs ranks those in that order. Multilingual
v2 is the published stable default and the one we would start
on for a weekly English post. Eleven v3 is the expressive
model: audio tags such as [sighs] or
[clears throat], a 5,000-character cap, and
fewer of the older sliders (Speed, Similarity, and Speaker
Boost are documented as unavailable on v3). Flash models are
the low-latency family; a forty-five-second feed take does
not need 75ms.
Where the sliders exist, the official starting point is Stability around 50, Similarity around 75, Style exaggeration at 0. Speed defaults to 1.0; the documented range is 0.7 to 1.2. Lower Stability for a livelier take, then generate more than once — the model is nondeterministic. Higher Stability for a straighter operator read. Do not invent a slider we cannot see on the public page. If a control is missing on your model, change the sentence and re-roll.
Pacing is the LinkedIn-specific job. A dash or em-dash is the documented beat — use it before the proof and before the ask so the close does not run into the comment keyword. Ellipsis adds hesitation, which a company-page take usually does not want. Nudge Speed if the first sentence eats the number. On Multilingual v2, Flash v2, and Flash v2.5, ElevenLabs also documents an SSML break tag for a timed pause of up to three seconds. Confirm the live syntax in their Text to Speech help rather than pasting markup we cannot see unchanged. On Eleven v3, use audio tags and punctuation — that model’s help says it does not support SSML break tags.
Press Generate Speech. Listen on headphones. Re-roll the first sentence until it lands. Leave a clean close alone. Two free regenerations of the exact same text and settings are the published allowance; any edit to the copy or the sliders is a new generation.
Download WAV, then export the LinkedIn-native file
The download is the gate. ElevenLabs’ Text to Speech help: after you generate, use the download control on the bottom right. Earlier takes sit in History on the same page — sidebar Text to Speech, then the history panel (or the history icon above Generate Speech on a narrow screen). History lists MP3 at 128 kbps or WAV; Advanced adds MP3 192 / 256 kbps, M4A, and FLAC. Higher-quality options are listed on paid tiers. For a LinkedIn handoff, WAV or a high-bitrate MP3 is the usual file. Confirm the live list on the plan you pay for.
Text to Speech is an audio export. We do not invent an MP4 download on that playground. The MP4 is the post you already have — a still, a silent screen, a B-roll loop — plus this VO. Import the WAV onto a dedicated voice track. Line the first word to the first picture change. Leave a breath before a comment-or-DM card so the keyword is not swallowed. If you use a music bed, duck it under the narration so the take is the loudest thing in the first second.
Then frame for the feed. Square (1:1) or 4:5 fills a phone. Widescreen 16:9 is a leftover from landing pages. 9:16 reads as a Short you cross-posted. Confirm the ratio in your editor before you export — we do not invent a “LinkedIn preset” inside ElevenLabs. Burn captions so the file works muted. Most people meet a LinkedIn video with the sound off; the first three seconds have to work as text.
Export that timeline as the MP4. Upload the file in the
LinkedIn composer at
linkedin.com
— native video, not a YouTube link sitting in a text post.
Write the caption as the first sentence of the take, then
the ask. If the current composer asks you to label
AI-generated or synthetic media, use that control; check the
live composer, not a blog post from last year. That label is
separate from the vendor license. You need both. Name the
source audio so the next person can find it:
monday_recap_li_en_v1. When the number changes,
open the sentence, generate, bump to v2, replace the clip.
Leave the proof that is still true.
Commercial rights, the company page, and the next cut
Read the live page. ElevenLabs meters in character credits across the suite. Free is 10,000 credits a month and no commercial license. Starter is the first paid tier that lists a commercial license and Instant Voice Cloning — $6/month on the public grid we verified in August 2026 (elevenlabs.io/pricing). Creator is the tier that lists Professional Voice Cloning ($22/month on that same grid; annual billing is cheaper). Confirm checkout. We do not print a commission rate.
A 30–60 second take is a rounding error on credits. The plan question is the license, not the meter. Sit on a paid plan before the file is the one a company page ships. If you later want the founder’s likeness on B-roll posts, that is a clone brief, not a reason to start this job in Creator. If the remaining job is a recut of a talk that already happened, the Klap LinkedIn-clips page is that brief. If the remaining job is a presenter on camera, the Synthesia LinkedIn page is that brief. If the remaining job is a thirty-second product close, the sales-voiceover how-to is that brief. If the remaining job is a four-minute episode, the YouTube-voiceover how-to is that brief. The voice-tool comparison lives on ElevenLabs vs Murf vs Synthesys. This page does not hop there. The only Try button here is ElevenLabs.