curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices/accents?language=example-language&model_id=model-id' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# GET /v1/voices/accents (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Get Voice Accents

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices/accents?language=example-language&model_id=model-id' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| language | query | string | No | If provided, only accents for this language code are retu... |
| model_id | query | string | No | If provided, returns the accents available for this model... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"accents":[{"accent":"american","code":"en-american","language":"en","name":"American"}]}

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GET

/v1/voices/accents

ElevenLabs API

Get Voice Accents

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices/accents?language=example-language&model_id=model-id' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
language	query	string	No	If provided, only accents for this language code are returned.
model_id	query	string	No	If provided, returns the accents available for this model. Defaults to the most complete accent list when omitted.

Response 200 OK

{
  "accents": [
    {
      "accent": "american",
      "code": "en-american",
      "language": "en",
      "name": "American"
    }
  ]
}