# ElevenLabs Studio: Turn a New-Hire Handbook into an Audio Briefing for Recruiting & HR

> Every new group hears the first-week rules a little differently. Paste the first-week part of your handbook into ElevenLabs Studio, give it a stock…

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Free · Live now · [AI Automation for Recruiting & HR](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/industry/recruiting-and-hr) · ElevenLabs Studio · ~9 min · 20 steps · Beginner

Updated November 3, 2026. Built against the tool’s current screens and checked step by step. [How we check this lesson](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/about#how-we-check)

Every new group hears the first-week rules a little differently. Paste the first-week part of your handbook into ElevenLabs Studio, give it a stock voice, fix how the names are said, and export one 85-second MP3 every new hire hears the same way.

## At a glance

| Question | Answer |
| --- | --- |
| What you build | Every new group hears the first-week rules a little differently. Paste the first-week part of your handbook into ElevenLabs Studio, give it a stock voice, fix how the names are said, and export one 85-second MP3 every new hire hears the same way. |
| Tools | ElevenLabs Studio |
| Time | About 9 minutes, 20 steps in 4 parts |
| Level | Beginner, no coding needed |
| Cost | Free |
| Ways to learn it | [Practice it step by step](https://learn.ynteractive.com/modules/elevenlabs-studio-handbook-briefing) |

### The 4 parts, in short

1. Start an audio project: Start a blank project, Pick Audio project.
2. Paste the script and pick a voice: Paste the script, Select every paragraph, Open the voice list, Search for a stock voice, and 2 more steps.
3. Check the names and fix them: Generate just this paragraph, Open Pronunciation, Type the word as written, Type how to say it, and 4 more steps.
4. Export the briefing: Open Export, Export as one MP3, Wait for the export, Download the briefing.

**Part of:** [AI Apps Worth Knowing](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/paths/partner-tools-ai-apps) (step 121 of 123)

## What you'll build

You are the HR generalist at Mercy Ridge Health, a made-up network of five hospitals. A new group starts every Monday, and whoever is free gives the first-week talk: where to pick up the badge, when orientation runs, how to clock in, how time off works, who to call. The details drift from group to group, and HR answers the same questions all week. In this lesson you paste a short briefing script into an ElevenLabs Studio audio project, give it a stock voice, voice the paragraph with names first, add pronunciation rules for three names, compare the takes and export one MP3. Nothing is published.

Eight paragraphs of handbook became an 85-second MP3 in one calm voice, for about 1,450 [credits](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/ai-credits) including two test takes of the names paragraph. Studio did the reading; you did the three things it cannot: wrote the script to be heard, told it how to say the names, and checked the takes before you exported. Play it once start to finish, have someone who knows the names listen, and put it in the welcome email or onboarding portal. When a policy changes, edit one paragraph and export again. Next, try it on the part of your own handbook new hires ask about most.

- Tools: ElevenLabs Studio
- Time: about 9 minutes, 20 steps in 4 chapters
- Level: beginner, no coding needed
- Price: free

## Practice first, then build it for real

Practice copy built from real ElevenLabs Studio screens (elevenlabs.io/app/studio), captured 3 November 2026 on Robert's account. Nothing here touches an ElevenLabs account. Mercy Ridge Health, its people and the script are made up. Credit costs are from that run, and yours will differ. To build it for real you need your own ElevenLabs Studio account, and some services charge once you use them for real work, so check each tool's current pricing.

## Try it yourself, free

Reading the steps is a start. Doing them is how it sticks. The interactive module walks you through every click in a practice copy of ElevenLabs Studio, checks each step, and never touches your real accounts.

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## Step by step: ElevenLabs Studio: Turn a New-Hire Handbook into an Audio Briefing for Recruiting & HR

All 20 steps of the interactive module, in order. In the module you watch each one, then do it yourself in a practice copy that checks your work.

### 1. Start an audio project

1. **Start a blank project.** You are the HR generalist at **Mercy Ridge Health**, a made-up network of five hospitals. Every Monday a new group starts, and every Monday someone gives the same first-week talk, a little differently each time. You have cut the first-week part of the handbook down to a short script. In **ElevenLabs**, open **Studio** and click **New blank project**.
   You are the H R generalist at Mercy Ridge Health, a made-up hospital network. Every Monday someone gives the same first week talk, a little differently each time.
2. **Pick Audio project.** Studio asks what kind of project. You want a narrated audio file, not a video. Click **Audio project**, *Begin an empty audio project*.
   You want an audio file, not a video.

### 2. Paste the script and pick a voice

3. **Paste the script.** The project opens empty. Click the title at the top and name it something you will find again (ours is **Stepthrough tests – Mercy Ridge new-hire briefing**). Then paste the script into the editor. Each line becomes its own paragraph, so you can fix one part later without redoing the rest. The footer estimates **1:20**.
   Name the project, then paste the script into the editor. Each line becomes its own paragraph, so you can fix one part later without redoing the rest.
   ```text
   Welcome to Mercy Ridge Health. This short briefing covers your first week, so you can walk in on day one knowing where to go.
   On your first day, come to the Security desk in Building C at 7:30 a.m. Bring a photo ID. Security prints your badge, and that badge is also how you clock in and out.
   Your orientation runs Monday and Tuesday. Monday is the network welcome, benefits and HIPAA privacy training. Tuesday is your unit tour with your preceptor.
   Clock in at the badge reader nearest your unit, no more than seven minutes before your shift. If you miss a punch, tell your manager the same day.
   Paid time off starts adding up from your first paycheck. Requests go to your manager at least two weeks ahead. If you are PRN, you pick up shifts through the staffing app instead.
   Patient privacy is part of every job here. Only open a chart you need for your work, and never discuss a patient in a hallway or an elevator.
   Your HR business partner is Linh Nguyen. For anything about pay, benefits or your schedule, start with Linh. For nursing staff, our Chief Nursing Officer, Doctor Adaeze Okonkwo, hosts a welcome coffee on your first Friday.
   That's it for now. Thank you for joining Mercy Ridge Health. We are glad you are here.
   ```
4. **Select every paragraph.** A voice picked with nothing selected only applies to the paragraph your cursor is in. In our run, only the last line got the voice. Click into the text and press **Ctrl+A** (Cmd+A on a Mac) to select all eight paragraphs.
   A voice only applies to the paragraph your cursor is in.
5. **Open the voice list.** The panel now says **Edit Speech (8)**. **Voice** says **Multiple voices** in a first project; in later ones it shows the last voice you used, marked Default. The model is **Eleven v4**, the project default. Click the **Voice** box.
   The panel says Edit Speech, 8.
6. **Search for a stock voice.** The list shows your saved voices. Use a stock voice for company audio, not a cloned voice of a real person. Type **Sarah** in the search box.
   Use a stock voice for company audio, not a clone of a real person.
7. **Pick Sarah.** Click **Sarah - Mature, Reassuring, Confident**. Calm and clear suits a first-day briefing.
   Calm and clear suits a first day briefing.
8. **Go to the paragraph with names.** Every paragraph now has Sarah's icon on the left. Before you spend credits on the whole script, test the hardest part first: the paragraph with **Linh Nguyen** and **Doctor Adaeze Okonkwo**. Names are where AI voices slip, and a new hire notices when their manager's name is wrong. Click that paragraph.
   Every paragraph now has Sarah. Before you spend credits on the whole script, test the hardest part: the paragraph with the names.

### 3. Check the names and fix them

9. **Generate just this paragraph.** Click **Generate**. Studio voices only the paragraph you are in and plays it. In our run that cost about **220 credits**, roughly one per character. Listen closely to the three names.
   Studio voices only this paragraph and plays it. Listen closely to the three names.
10. **Open Pronunciation.** The take is saved under **Generation History**. Now tell the voice how to say the names. Click **Pronunciation** in the left rail.
    The take is saved. Now tell the voice how to say the names.
11. **Type the word as written.** **Add pronunciation**: *Tell the voice how to say names and words.* In **Word in text**, type **Nguyen**, spelled exactly as it is in the script.
    In Word in text, type Nguyen, spelled exactly as in the script.
12. **Type how to say it.** In **Say it as**, type how it sounds: **Win**. Keep the type on **Text**, so you write it the way it sounds instead of in phonetic symbols. The play button next to it previews the sound.
    In Say it as, type how it sounds. Win.
13. **Add the rule.** Click **Add pronunciation**.
14. **Add the other two names.** Studio made a dictionary for this project, **Untitled project pronunciations**, with your first rule and an empty row. Add the other two the same way: **Okonkwo** → **oh-KONG-kwoh**, and **Adaeze** → **ah-DAY-zay**. Ask the person how they say their name; a guess written as a rule is still a guess.
    Studio made a dictionary for this project. Add the other two names the same way. Ask the person how they say their name. A guess written as a rule is still a guess.
15. **Regenerate the paragraph.** Three rules. The dictionary is saved to your account: in the next project it shows under **Other dictionaries** on this panel, so next month's briefing starts with the names right. Click **Regenerate** to voice the names paragraph again with the rules.
    Three rules, saved to your account for the next briefing too.
16. **Compare the two takes.** Back in **Edit**, **Generation History** now has two takes. The newest is ticked and is the one Studio uses. Play the older one, then the newer one, and listen for the names. If a name is still off, change its **Say it as** and regenerate. If the old take was better, tick it.
    Generation History now has two takes. The ticked one is used. Play both and listen for the names. If one is still off, change the rule and regenerate.

### 4. Export the briefing

17. **Open Export.** The names are right. Now the rest of the script. Click **Export** at the top right.
    The names are right.
18. **Export as one MP3.** **Media type: Audio**, **File structure: Single file**, **Audio format: MP3**. Studio tells you the cost before it spends anything: **913 credits to generate the remaining paragraphs**. Leave the **Publish** tab alone; it shares the project publicly. Click **Export**.
    Audio, single file, M P 3. Studio shows the cost first, 913 credits for the remaining paragraphs. Leave Publish alone.
19. **Wait for the export.** **Export status** shows the file at **0%**, MP3 at 192 kbps. Studio voices the six remaining paragraphs, then joins all eight. Ours took about 20 seconds. Click the status.
    Export status shows the file at zero percent. It voices the remaining paragraphs and joins them.
20. **Download the briefing.** Done: an **85-second MP3** of the whole briefing in one voice. Click **Download**. Before it goes out, play it once start to finish, and have someone who knows the names check them. Then put it where new hires are on day one: the welcome email, the onboarding portal or the badge-pickup screen. When the handbook changes, edit that one paragraph and export again.
    Done. An 85 second M P 3 in one voice. Play it once start to finish, and have someone who knows the names check them. Then put it in the welcome email or the onboarding portal.

## Screenshots

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## Terms in this lesson

Plain-English definitions, each with an example from a free lesson.

Voice cloning · [AI credits](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/ai-credits) · Employee onboarding

[The full AI glossary](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary)

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