Handbook

Voice Automation AI Agents with ElevenLabs

10 chapters. Chapter 1 is a free preview — the rest unlocks after your enrollment is approved.

01

Foundations of Voice Automation AI

Understanding AI voice systems before building them — the mental models, the pipeline, and the tools that make machines listen, think and talk.

Cover1. What is Voice AI2. History of Voice AI3. IVR vs AI Voice Agent4. How Voice AI Works5. Speech to Text (STT)6. Large Language Models7. Text to Speech (TTS)
02

Setting Up ElevenLabs Like a Professional

Account, dashboard, voices, cloning, API keys, billing and your first working call to the API — in Postman, Python, JavaScript and cURL.

Cover1. Create ElevenLabs Account2. The Dashboard3. Projects4. Voice Library5. Voice Cloning6. Instant Voice Clone7. Professional Voice Clone
03

Building Your First Voice AI Agent

An AI Receptionist end-to-end — capture speech, transcribe with Whisper/Deepgram/AssemblyAI, reason with Claude, respond with ElevenLabs, orchestrate in n8n.

Cover1. Project Brief: AI Receptionist2. The Flow3. STT Options4. Whisper5. Deepgram6. AssemblyAI7. Claude as the Brain
04

Essential Tools for Voice Automation

A working knowledge of every tool you will actually touch — voice, LLM, telephony, orchestration, backend, and delivery — then one workflow that uses them together.

Cover1. The Voice Automation Map2. ElevenLabs3. Claude4. ChatGPT / OpenAI5. Whisper6. Deepgram7. AssemblyAI
05

Building AI Phone Calling Agents

Seven vertical agents, one shared skeleton — restaurant, dental, salon, HVAC, real estate, lead qual, appointments — plus transfer, voicemail, FAQs and CRM.

Cover1. The Shape of a Phone Agent2. Twilio Setup3. Media Streams4. Restaurant Booking Agent5. Dental Clinic Agent6. Salon Booking Agent7. HVAC Booking Agent
06

Real Projects with ElevenLabs

Eight production-shaped projects you can white-label — receptionist, sales, interviewer, tutor, podcast, audiobook, WhatsApp, support.

Cover1. AI Receptionist2. AI Sales Agent3. AI Interviewer4. AI Tutor5. Podcast Generator6. Audiobook Generator7. WhatsApp Voice Assistant
07

Advanced Voice Automation

Streaming, barge-in, memory, emotion, SSML, cost, scale — everything that separates a demo from a call center running 10,000 minutes a day.

Cover1. Streaming Audio2. Interruptions3. Low Latency4. Voice Memory5. Context6. Voice Personalities7. Emotion Control
08

Deploying Voice AI Applications

Railway, Render, Docker, AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel — plus logging, secrets, security, rate limits, scaling and CI/CD.

Cover1. Railway2. Render3. Docker4. AWS5. Cloudflare6. Vercel7. Logging
09

Common Mistakes and Debugging

Every mistake we made so you don't have to — audio, latency, cloning, API errors, rate limits — with the fix, not just the diagnosis.

Cover1. Bad Audio2. Latency3. Poor Voice Quality4. Wrong Voice Settings5. Streaming Issues6. API Errors7. Rate Limits
10

Final Capstone — ReceptionistAI SaaS

Build a production-ready AI voice receptionist SaaS end-to-end: landing, auth, dashboard, Twilio, ElevenLabs, Claude, Google Calendar, Stripe, deployment, launch and marketing.

Cover1. Brief: ReceptionistAI2. Architecture3. Data Model4. Landing Page5. Authentication6. Dashboard7. Voice Settings