Generate a hosted speech audio asset

POST /v1/audio/speech

Operation ID: createSpeech. The canonical machine-readable schema is OpenAPI.

Request body

The public endpoint uses elevenlabs/flash-v2.5 and returns MP3 audio. Choose a public voice alias from GET /v1/audio/voices; omission uses the model's Darian default. The live catalog and HTTP 402 response remain authoritative.

json

{
  "model": "elevenlabs/flash-v2.5",
  "input": "Your text to speak.",
  "voice": "darian",
  "response_format": "mp3",
  "speed": 1
}

Payment lifecycle

The first request returns Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) status 402 without calling the model provider. Check the Base network, United States Dollar Coin (USDC) contract, payment recipient, expiry time, payment scheme, and maximum amount. Sign locally with an official x402 client, then retry the identical effective request with the same idempotency key.

After success, read the PAYMENT-RESPONSE, X-Request-ID, X-Receipt-ID, and X-Catalog-Version headers together with the receipt link. The response is released only after the result, payment, and receipt are safely stored.

Read the response

Read the generated MP3 from data[0].url. The URL is a bearer capability: keep it out of logs and public messages, download it promptly, and treat data[0].expires_at as its exact 24-hour access deadline. The JSON response also reports the validated format, content type, duration, and exact input-character count in usage.input_characters.

Responses

200: Durably settled response with X-Receipt-ID and PAYMENT-RESPONSE headers
400: Invalid or unsupported request
402: Payment required. The PAYMENT-REQUIRED header is authoritative and contains the official x402 challenge.
409: Idempotency key reused with a different effective request
503: Provider, payment, or safety dependency unavailable