curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices/voice-id?with_settings=true' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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

> Get Voice

## 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/voice-id?with_settings=true' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| voice_id | path | string | Yes | Voice ID to be used, you can use https://api.elevenlabs.i... |
| with_settings | query | boolean | No | This parameter is now deprecated. It is ignored and will... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"available_for_tiers":["creator"],"category":"professional"}

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GET

/v1/voices/{voice_id}

ElevenLabs API

Get Voice

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/voice-id?with_settings=true' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
voice_id	path	string	Yes	Voice ID to be used, you can use https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices to list all the available voices.
with_settings	query	boolean	No	This parameter is now deprecated. It is ignored and will be removed in a future version.

Response 200 OK

{
  "available_for_tiers": [
    "creator",
    "enterprise"
  ],
  "category": "professional",
  "description": "A warm, expressive voice with a touch of humor.",
  "fine_tuning": {
    "is_allowed_to_fine_tune": true,
    "manual_verification_requested": false,
    "state": {
      "eleven_multilingual_v2": "fine_tuned"
    },
    "verification_attempts_count": 2,
    "verification_failures": []
  },
  "high_quality_base_model_ids": [
    "eleven_v2_flash",
    "eleven_flash_v2",
    "eleven_turbo_v2_5",
    "eleven_multilingual_v2",
    "eleven_v2_5_flash",
    "eleven_flash_v2_5",
    "eleven_turbo_v2"
  ],
  "is_legacy": false,
  "is_mixed": false,
  "is_owner": false,
  "labels": {
    "accent": "American",
    "age": "middle-aged",
    "description": "expressive",
    "gender": "female",
    "use_case": "social media"
  },
  "name": "Rachel",
  "preview_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/eleven-public-prod/premade/voices/9BWtsMINqrJLrRacOk9x/405766b8-1f4e-4d3c-aba1-6f25333823ec.mp3",
  "settings": {
    "similarity_boost": 1,
    "speed": 1,
    "stability": 1,
    "style": 0,
    "use_speaker_boost": true
  },
  "sharing": {
    "category": "professional",
    "cloned_by_count": 50,
    "date_unix": 1714204800,
    "description": "A female voice with a soft and friendly tone.",
    "disable_at_unix": 1714204800,
    "enabled_in_library": true,
    "featured": true,
    "financial_rewards_enabled": true,
    "free_users_allowed": true,
    "history_item_sample_id": "DCwhRBWXzGAHq8TQ4Fs18",
    "labels": {
      "accent": "American",
      "gender": "female"
    },
    "liked_by_count": 100,
    "live_moderation_enabled": true,
    "moderation_check": {
      "captcha_checks": [
        0.95,
        0.98
      ],
      "captcha_ids": [
        "captcha1",
        "captcha2"
      ],
      "date_checked_unix": 1714204800,
      "description_check": true,
      "description_value": "A female voice with a soft and friendly tone.",
      "name_check": true,
      "name_value": "Rachel",
      "sample_checks": [
        0.95,
        0.98
      ],
      "sample_ids": [
        "sample1",
        "sample2"
      ]
    },
    "name": "Rachel",
    "notice_period": 30,
    "original_voice_id": "DCwhRBWXzGAHq8TQ4Fs18",
    "public_owner_id": "DCwhRBWXzGAHq8TQ4Fs18",
    "rate": 0.05,
    "reader_app_enabled": true,
    "reader_restricted_on": [
      {
        "resource_id": "FCwhRBWXzGAHq8TQ4Fs18",
        "resource_type": "read"
      }
    ],
    "review_status": "allowed",
    "status": "enabled",
    "voice_mixing_allowed": false,
    "whitelisted_emails": [
      "example@example.com"
    ]
  },
  "verified_languages": [
    {
      "accent": "american",
      "language": "en",
      "locale": "en-US",
      "model_id": "eleven_multilingual_v2",
      "preview_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/eleven-public-prod/premade/voices/9BWtsMINqrJLrRacOk9x/405766b8-1f4e-4d3c-aba1-6f25333823ec.mp3"
    }
  ],
  "voice_id": "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM",
  "voice_verification": {
    "is_verified": true,
    "language": "en",
    "requires_verification": false,
    "verification_attempts": [
      {
        "accepted": true,
        "date_unix": 1714204800,
        "levenshtein_distance": 2,
        "recording": {
          "mime_type": "audio/mpeg",
          "recording_id": "CwhRBWXzGAHq8TQ4Fs17",
          "size_bytes": 1000000,
          "transcription": "Hello, how are you?",
          "upload_date_unix": 1714204800
        },
        "similarity": 0.95,
        "text": "Hello, how are you?"
      }
    ],
    "verification_attempts_count": 0,
    "verification_failures": []
  }
}