Elevenlabs Narration

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elevenlabs-narration

Elevenlabs Narration is an Agent Skill for documents published in the RinDig/Interpreted-Context-Methdology repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Render a written script to mp3 voiceover via the ElevenLabs API. Reads a PASTE-block convention from a script.md file, calls the API, saves a master and a runtime copy.

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How to use this skill

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Prompt to paste

Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/RinDig/Interpreted-Context-Methdology/blob/HEAD/workspaces/voice-driven-animation/skills/elevenlabs-narration/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/elevenlabs-narration, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

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When to Use

Use this skill in Stage 03 (voice). It takes a finished script (Stage 02 output) and produces an mp3.

What You Need Before Calling

A .env file with ELEVEN_API_KEY and ELEVEN_VOICE_ID populated locally. See ../../shared/env-template.md.
Python with elevenlabs and python-dotenv installed.
A script file in the workspace that contains a ## ► PASTE THIS into ElevenLabs heading followed by two --- rules. The narration sits between those rules.

The skill never writes the API key or voice id into a committed file. Credentials stay in .env.

How It Works

Read the script file.
Find the PASTE THIS into ElevenLabs heading. The case-insensitive match handles ► , ▶ , or > prefixes.
Extract everything between the next two --- rules. Strip any lines starting with > (markdown blockquote callouts to the human).
Load .env via python-dotenv.
Call client.text_to_speech.convert(text=..., voice_id=..., model_id=..., output_format=..., voice_settings=VoiceSettings(...)).
Save the returned audio to audio/{videoN}.mp3 (master).
Copy that file to remotion/public/audio/{videoN}.mp3 (runtime, so staticFile() finds it).

The reference implementation is in scripts/generate-audio.py. Copy it into the project root and adjust the SCRIPTS mapping for your file layout.

Voice Settings

This workspace is configured for:

Voice label: {{ELEVEN_VOICE_LABEL}} (the real id lives in .env)
Model: {{ELEVEN_MODEL_ID}}
Stability: {{ELEVEN_STABILITY}}
Similarity boost: {{ELEVEN_SIMILARITY_BOOST}}
Speed: {{ELEVEN_SPEED}}
Output: {{ELEVEN_OUTPUT_FORMAT}}

Override any of these by setting the matching ELEVEN_* variable in .env before the call.

Rules

rules/paste-block.md -- exact format the script must use so extraction works
rules/tone-tags.md -- [brackets] tags ElevenLabs honors and the ones it does not

After the Call

Stage 03 hands off to the Whisper skill. The voice file is the timeline truth from here on.