An ElevenLabs connection lets the ElevenLabs steps read text aloud in a voice you choose and turn recordings into text, using your company's own ElevenLabs account. Bizomate does not pay for or resell AI use: the characters and minutes count against your ElevenLabs plan, and each run's output shows what it used.

Who can do this

Workspace Admins and Editors, on every plan — ElevenLabs is not a premium connection. Viewers see the connection but cannot add or change it.

Steps

In ElevenLabs, make the key:

  1. Sign in at elevenlabs.io.
  2. Open the API keys page in your ElevenLabs account and create a key.
  3. Name it — for example Bizomate.
  4. If ElevenLabs offers to restrict it, allow at least: Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Voices (read) and User (read). The test reads your plan, and the voice list reads your voices.
  5. Optional: set a character limit on the key, so a busy workflow cannot use the whole plan.
  6. Select Create and copy the key. ElevenLabs shows it only once.

In Bizomate, add the connection:

  1. Select Connections in the bar at the top, then + Add connection.
  2. Under AI, select ElevenLabs. It reads "Stored credential".
  3. In Connection name, type a name — for example Consulace ElevenLabs.
  4. Paste the key in API key. "Stored encrypted. It is never shown again after you save."
  5. Optional: if the key has an end date, choose it in This key expires on · optional.
  6. Leave Test the connection before saving ticked. Bizomate reads your plan with the key before keeping it.
  7. Select Save connection. The button reads Testing, then the dialog closes.

The toast "Connection added" says "“Consulace ElevenLabs” is ready. Every workflow in this workspace can use it."

What happens next

  • Test in the connection's panel answers with your plan and what is left of it — Reached ElevenLabs · Creator plan, 84,210 characters left. It costs nothing.
  • In the designer, the ElevenLabs steps list it under Connection: Text to speech and Speech to text.
  • The Voice list in Text to speech is read from your account, including voices you made or added in ElevenLabs.

Good to know

  • When the plan's characters run out, Text to speech fails until the plan renews or you upgrade.
  • To use a new key: open the connection's panel and select Replace key, paste the new key and select Replace key. The old one is used until then. With Test the connection before saving ticked, nothing changes if ElevenLabs refuses it. The toast says "Key replaced".
  • Voices of real people need their permission. ElevenLabs' own terms apply to every voice you use.

If something goes wrong

What you see Why What to do
"Fill in API key." The box is empty. Paste the key.
ElevenLabs refused it — "ElevenLabs refused: … Check the connection's details on Connections. Nothing was saved." The key is wrong or deleted, or it may not read the user. Make a new key with User (read) allowed, and paste the whole of it.
"ElevenLabs refused the API key. Replace it on Connections." (in a run) The key was deleted, or lacks the permission the step needs. Allow the step's permission on the key in ElevenLabs, or make a new key.
"ElevenLabs says too many requests, or the account is out of credit. Set this step to try again, or check the account." Too many at once for the plan, or no characters left. Set the step's If this step fails to try again, or check the plan.
"Could not reach ElevenLabs: …" or "ElevenLabs did not answer in time." ElevenLabs could not be reached, or was slow. Try again in a few minutes.