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ElevenLabs
Every project write-up tagged ElevenLabs, with the guide that pulls their lessons together first.
GuideVoice AI lessons
Lessons From Building a Dozen Voice AI Agents and Apps
What twelve voice AI builds taught me about latency, turn-taking, interruptions, TTS choice, captions, fallbacks, and browser versus server speech to text.
3rd Place, ElevenHacks (ElevenLabs x Zed)Apartment 4B
How Apartment 4B Bakes an Entire Horror Game Into Static Files
Apartment 4B is a browser horror game whose voices, screams and theme music were generated with ElevenLabs ahead of time, so the site never calls an API.
D-ID You
Putting a Talking AI Presenter in Any Video With ffmpeg and D-ID
How D-ID You turns an uploaded video into a narrated MP4 with a circular AI presenter, using ElevenLabs, DeepSeek V3, D-ID Talks and one long ffmpeg filter.
Voices of the Last World
How I Gave Four AI Characters Their Own ElevenLabs Voices
Voices of the Last World is a browser crisis game where two AI minds debate in ElevenLabs voices. Here is the voice, DSP, and LLM fallback design behind it.
YouTube Shorts Factory
Building a YouTube Shorts Factory That Posts Every Day
An unattended pipeline that turns a topic into a published YouTube Short: LLM scripts, Fal.ai images, ElevenLabs voice, Whisper captions, and FFmpeg.
2nd Place, ElevenLabs x Replit HackathonFaceTime from Mars
Faking a 225 Million Kilometer Phone Call to Mars
How FaceTime from Mars turns browser speech recognition, gpt-4o-mini and ElevenLabs voices into a push-to-talk call with three AI Mars colonists.
Jungle Safari
How Jungle Safari Hides Every AI Round Trip From a Toddler
Jungle Safari is a toddler animal-sound quiz where every ElevenLabs clip and GPT-4o-mini mascot line is generated ahead of time and cached so nothing loads.
Winner, ElevenHacks (Stripe x ElevenLabs)Living Photos
Walking Into a Photograph with Gaussian Splats and a Cloned Voice
How I built Living Photos, a Next.js app that turns one photo into a walkable 3D splat scene with a consent-gated ElevenLabs voice inside it.
Best Voice Agent, ElevenLabs x Firecrawl HackathonScreenSense (v3)
Teaching ScreenSense to Hold a Conversation While It Clicks
How I rebuilt ScreenSense as a conversational voice browser agent with Firecrawl page context and ElevenLabs voice, and won Best Voice Agent.
Spotify for Hackers
Building an AI DJ That Never Leaves Dead Air Between Tracks
How Spotify for Hackers uses Groq, ElevenLabs and browser-side audio ducking so a voiced AI host bridges every track handoff without a gap of silence.
Super Nova
Wiring a Voice-Only Companion to MCP, Groq and ElevenLabs
How Super Nova turns continuous speech into MCP tool calls and on-screen widgets with a hand-written MCP client, regex-first routing, and ElevenLabs TTS.
The Missing Angle
Interrogating AI Suspects Out Loud with ElevenLabs Speech Engine
How The Missing Angle wires ElevenLabs Speech Engine, Groq and a Gaussian-splat rooftop into a murder mystery you solve by talking to the suspects.
VoiceCaptcha
Bots Can Click Checkboxes. Can They Speak? Building VoiceCaptcha
How VoiceCaptcha makes a user speak a one-time phrase, transcribes it with Groq Whisper on a Cloudflare Worker, and scores it with a small fuzzy matcher.