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The docs state the output keeps tone, delivery, cadence, whispers, sighs, laughs and cries; the target voice supplies timbre only. It is positioned as a complement to TTS (fix pronunciation, add performance) and to voice actors (extend range). Failure modes. The docs warn input gain matters: quiet input hinders recognition, loud input clips. There is a remove_background_noise option,...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. TTS invents timing and emotion from text; a dubbing or ADR editor who wants a specific performance (whisper, laugh, cry, cadence) needs a method that keeps the actor's delivery and swaps only the voice. Conditions. You have a recorded or live source performance and a target voice (cloned or designed) in the same account. Method. Per ElevenLabs docs, Voice changer takes source audio (file or microphone), a target voice_id and a model (eleven_multilingual_sts_v2 covers 29 languages; eleven_english_sts_v2 is English-only, and the docs say the multilingual model often does better even for English). The docs state the output keeps tone, delivery, cadence, whispers, sighs, laughs and cries; the target voice supplies timbre only. It is positioned as a complement to TTS (fix pronunciation, add performance) and to voice actors (extend range). Failure modes. The docs warn input gain matters: quiet input hinders recognition, loud input clips. There is a remove_background_noise option, so noisy plates are expected to be a problem. Limits. Max 5 minutes per segment and a 50 MB file in the product guide, so long takes must be chunked, which risks seam differences between chunks (inference). Billing is duration-based (1,000 characters per minute). Inference for dubbing: because cadence follows the input, lip-sync timing is whatever the performer delivered; a TTS line must be timed separately. Version/date. Docs as fetched on the fetched_at date; model names and limits can change.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.\n\nLimitations: Vendor claims; I ran no conversion and did not listen to output. 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