How to get Elevenlabs to work?

[frankmeeuwsen]

Thanks for this excellent package. I use the downloaded package, not the pip install version. I want to try to use custom voices from Elevenlabs but somehow I can't get it to work. I have a custom.yaml with tts_model: "elevenlabs" but when I run this I get an error

File "/Users/Documents/podcastfy/podcastfy/client.py", line 342, in generate_podcast tts_model = conversation_config.get("default_tts_model", "openai") ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'

I am not sure how to proceed from here... an example with custom yaml to use Elevenlabs in another language would be appreciated.

[souzatharsis]

Could you please share your custom yaml file?

On Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 12:29 PM Frank Meeuwsen @.***> wrote:

Thanks for this excellent package. I use the downloaded package, not the pip install version. I want to try to use custom voices from Elevenlabs but somehow I can't get it to work. I have a custom.yaml with tts_model: "elevenlabs" but when I run this I get an error

File "/Users/Documents/podcastfy/podcastfy/client.py", line 342, in generate_podcast tts_model = conversation_config.get("default_tts_model", "openai") ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'

I am not sure how to proceed from here... an example with custom yaml to use Elevenlabs in another language would be appreciated.

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[frankmeeuwsen]

Since I can't upload it, here it is copy-pasted. Since I commented, I got it to work somehow on the commandline, but it still falls back to the openAI voices from what I can hear.

Thanks for your help!

word_count: 400
conversation_style: 
  - "Technical expertise"
  - "Enthusiastic"
podcast_name: "Jobs overview"
roles_person1: "main explainer"
roles_person2: "domain expert"
output_language: "Dutch"
podcast_tagline: "Work on your own careerpath"
engagement_techniques: 
  - "technical know-how"
  - "vivid imagery"
  - "audience prompts"
ending_message: "See our website for more information!"
creativity: 0.7
model: "eleven_multilingual_v2"
default_voices:
  - question: "Frank"
  - answer: "Melanie"

[souzatharsis]

Thanks for sharing.

You need to pass voice names that speak your target language in config. Additionally, you need to pass tts_model = 'elevenlabs' when calling generate podcast.

https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy/blob/main/usage/how-to.md#how-to-use-your-own-voice-in-audio-podcasts

Please let me know if you still have issues and I can generate a full working example when I have time on Monday.

Thanks!

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024, 4:12 AM Frank Meeuwsen @.***> wrote:

Since I can't upload it, here it is copy-pasted. Thanks for your help!

word_count: 400conversation_style:

• "Technical expertise"
• "Enthusiastic"podcast_name: "Jobs overview"roles_person1: "main explainer"roles_person2: "domain expert"output_language: "Dutch"podcast_tagline: "Work on your own careerpath"engagement_techniques:
• "technical know-how"
• "vivid imagery"
• "audience prompts"ending_message: "See our website for more information!"creativity: 0.7model: "eleven_multilingual_v2"default_voices:
• question: "Frank"
• answer: "Melanie"

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[frankmeeuwsen]

The voices in the yaml are Dutch voices (my own and one from the library) so that should work. I tried this on the commandline: python -m podcastfy.client --tts-model elevenlabs --conversation-config ~/Downloads/podcastify/custom.yaml --transcript ~/Downloads/podcastify/data/transcripts/transcript_8e24eb33c7a0416d83759bc3b27d6636.txt

And when I changed the names of the voices in podcastfy/conversation_config.yaml to the Dutch ones it worked! But I'd rather override those values in my own config.yaml. Is this possible?