generating-audio

# Audio Generation Turn a script into spoken audio via the `audio_generate` tool. Two decisions drive quality: **which voice** reads it, and **how the script is written for the ear**. **Scope.** Speech — a voice reading written words, delivered as its own audio file. Nothing here makes non-speech sound, alters audio that already exists, or combines two tracks into one. Lip-synced dialogue spoken by a character *inside* a video clip belongs to `generating-videos`. ## Workflow ### Step 1: Settle the script Generate only from the exact words that will be spoken. - **Supplied** → use them verbatim. - **Enough to write them** — the product, audience, platform, and length are known → draft the script and show it before generating. - **Not enough** → ask. Never invent a tagline, product claim, or brand name to fill the gap. **Write to a duration.** Speech runs about two to three words a second, so a fifteen-second read is thirty to forty-five words. Set the word count before writing, and trim words rather than speeding up the delivery. ### Step 2: Pick the model **`eleven-v3` is the default** — the most expressive read, and right for anything heard as a performance. Reach for another only on a clear signal: | Reach for another model when the script… | Model | | --- | --- | | Is a long, even read — an explainer, documentary narration, an audiobook chapter — where the voice must not drift | `eleven-multilingual-v2` | | Is high-volume, a throwaway draft, or cost-sensitive,...