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Burki + ElevenLabs

The most natural TTS in the industry, with voice cloning.

ElevenLabs is the gold standard for natural-sounding TTS and the most-requested voice provider on Burki. We stream from ElevenLabs's WebSocket TTS endpoint to keep first-byte latency under 300ms — even for cloned voices.

Why connect ElevenLabs to Burki?

A voice AI assistant is only useful when it can connect to the rest of your stack. The ElevenLabs integration helps Burki fit into the systems your team already uses for calling, transcription, reasoning, speech, routing, or customer data. That means the assistant can move from a demo into a production workflow without forcing you to replace your existing tools.

Burki keeps the integration flexible. You can run one assistant with ElevenLabs, pair it with other providers for a full voice pipeline, and change providers later if your cost, latency, coverage, or quality requirements change. This is especially useful for teams that need different settings per assistant, region, campaign, or customer segment.

The result is a voice agent that is easier to operate: fewer hard-coded assumptions, clearer provider boundaries, and a pricing model that separates Burki's platform fee from the third-party services you already trust.

What you get with Burki + ElevenLabs

  • WebSocket-streamed Eleven v3, v2.5, and Multilingual v2 models
  • Voice cloning: bring your own voice or use ElevenLabs's library
  • Per-character pricing with full passthrough in BYO mode
  • Pronunciation overrides for brand names, drug names, addresses
  • Multi-language voice support (29+ languages)

When to choose ElevenLabs

Choose ElevenLabs when voice naturalness matters more than per-minute cost — most consumer-facing agents, healthcare, and high-stakes sales. For high-volume workloads where voice quality is good-enough rather than premium, consider Cartesia or Deepgram Aura.

How to configure

# .env
ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=...

# Per-assistant config:
# TTS -> Provider: ElevenLabs
# Voice: 21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM  # any voice id, or your cloned voice
# Model: eleven_turbo_v2_5     # or eleven_multilingual_v2

For full setup, see the docs.

Pricing

Burki: $0.03/min platform fee. ElevenLabs: per-character pricing, typical voice agent runs ~$0.05–$0.08/min. Significantly cheaper than platforms that bundle ElevenLabs — Burki passes raw rates through with zero markup in BYO mode.

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