Voice of the emotion wheel
Ruth Warm and Dynamic Narrator
Warm, articulate and engaging. Ruth’s signature voice-over.
Best for e-learning, corporate video, explainers and audiobooks.
Made with ElevenLabs Eleven v4
One voice. Every emotion.
Meet Ruth, the real voice behind three ElevenLabs voices loved by 50,000+ creators. Turn the wheel and hear her laugh, whisper, sing and cry.
The exact prompt
Words in [brackets] are audio tags: they direct the performance and are never spoken.
Drag the wheel, or click it and scroll. Arrow keys work too. Click a feeling to hear it.
- 50,000+creators added Ruth’s voices on ElevenLabs
- 71emotions on the wheel, in two languages
- 3Professional Voice Clones of one real voice
- #1Eleven v4 ranks first on Artificial Analysis
The voices
The best voices on the internet.
Fine, we may be a little biased. Press play and judge for yourself. All three are Professional Voice Clones of Ruth, ready to use in ElevenLabs today.
Most added
Ruth Friendly Children’s Storyteller
Ruth’s famous voice in a cosy, casual storytelling style.
Best for children’s books, bedtime stories, audiobooks and family content.
New
Ruth Soothing Meditation Guide & ASMR
Soft, slow and reassuring. Made to help listeners breathe and settle.
Best for guided meditation, sleep stories, breathwork, mindfulness apps and gentle ASMR.
Why it sounds this real
Eleven v4: AI voices that act.
ElevenLabs is the AI audio platform behind lifelike voices for creators, publishers, developers and studios. You type, a voice speaks: in any of thousands of voices, in dozens of languages.
Eleven v4, released on 28 September 2026, is its most expressive model yet. It doesn’t just read your text, it performs it. Add an audio tag like [laughs], [whispers] or [sighs] and the voice follows your direction, down to a crack in the voice or a breath before the punchline.
Audio tags
Direct the performance with plain words in brackets: [excited], [crying], [sings], even [eating while talking].
Real emotion
Pitch, pace and breath change with the feeling, even halfway through a sentence.
85+ languages
One voice, many languages, with native accent adherence. Ruth speaks Dutch natively and English with an American accent on request.
Ranked first
Top of the Artificial Analysis leaderboard and preferred in about 75% of blind tests, according to ElevenLabs.
Real-world use cases
Hear her at work.
From a perfume ad to a phone menu, a bedtime story or a Reddit story for YouTube. Turn the wheel and hear Ruth do the jobs creators use her for.
Why Ruth
A real voice, not a synthetic one.
Ruth is a Dutch voice-over. Her voice was cloned with ElevenLabs Professional Voice Cloning, the highest-fidelity clone ElevenLabs offers, trained on her own recordings. So every laugh, sigh and whisper on this page is unmistakably hers. Eleven v4 simply lets her act.
- Add RuthOpen Ruth in the ElevenLabs Voice Library and add her to My Voices.
- Choose Eleven v4Select Eleven v4 as the model in Text to Speech.
- Direct herWrite your script with tags like [excited] or [whispers]. Writing in English? Start with [american accent].