Make audio

The Audio door makes three things: a voice reading your text, a song from a description, and a sound effect from a description. Pick what to make, pick a model, and the exact price is shown on the button before you start. Audio runs in the workspace only; the API has no audio endpoint.

1. Choose what to makeVoice, Music or Sound, under the composer. Each has its own models.
2. Choose a model, and a voiceA reading takes one of twelve ElevenLabs voices, each described in the list. A song takes a description of genre, mood, tempo and what it sings about; a sound takes a description and a length.
3. See the price, then sendA reading is priced by its length in characters, a song per song, timed music per minute, a sound per second. The number on the button is the price.
4. Play itA reading lands in a few seconds, a sound in about ten, a song in under a minute. The card plays it, shows the lyrics a song sings, and downloads it as MP3.

Models

A model labelled "by fal" runs at fal, the supplier that carries ElevenLabs and Google's Lyria for us; the others run at our default gateway. Lyria writes whole songs with vocals, structure and lyrics, up to a few minutes. ElevenLabs v3 takes cues in square brackets, like [laughs] or [whispers].

Billing

• The price is reserved when the job starts and held for up to 20 minutes.
• You are never charged above the price shown. A job that fails releases the hold.
• If the supplier will not start a job, the same request runs at the other supplier's model at that model's price, and the receipt says which ran.
• Twenty audio requests a minute per account. A reading takes up to 5,000 characters (3,000 on ElevenLabs v3); a description up to 2,000.

Keeping it

Finished audio is saved to your library with the prompt that made it, the voice and the lyrics, and can be downloaded as MP3. It is served from askr, to you only. Delete any of it from the library.

Made with AI

Every reading, song and sound carries a line saying it was made with AI, and a reading says it is a synthetic voice. Under the EU's AI rules in force since August 2026, synthetic audio has to be recognisable as such; keep the line when you pass it on, and do not present a synthetic voice as a real person's. The door offers premade voices only: it does not clone a voice from a recording.

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