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

> List Speech Engines

## 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/speech-engine?page_size=30&search=example-search&sort_direction=asc&sort_by=name&cursor=example-cursor' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| page_size | query | integer | No | How many Speech Engines to return at maximum. Can not exc... |
| search | query | string | No | Search term to filter Speech Engines by name |
| sort_direction | query | string | No | The direction to sort the results |
| sort_by | query | string | No | The field to sort the results by |

## Response (200 OK)
{"has_more":false,"speech_engines":[{}]}

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