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Automate Voice with LeanVox + n8n: Our Community Node is Live

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If you use n8n for workflow automation, you can now add voice AI to any workflow. Our community node is live on npm.

Install it from Settings → Community Nodes in your n8n instance:

n8n-nodes-leanvox
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That's it. No Docker config, no environment variables, no SDK installation.

What Can You Build?

The node covers the full LeanVox API — text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and multi-speaker dialogue. Here are some workflows that take minutes to set up:

Blog to Podcast

RSS feed triggers → extract article text → LeanVox Generate Speech → upload MP3 to S3 or your podcast host. Every new blog post automatically becomes an audio version.

Meeting Transcriber

Webhook receives recording → LeanVox Transcribe (with diarization + summary) → post summary to Slack. Know who said what without listening to the whole meeting.

Multilingual Voicemail

Form submission → LeanVox Generate Speech in 10 languages → email each version. One form, global reach.

Content Moderation Pipeline

Audio upload webhook → LeanVox Transcribe → scan transcript for flagged keywords → alert on Slack or email. Automate audio review at scale.

Available Operations

The node gives you 8 operations:

  • Generate Speech — text to audio using Standard (fast), Pro (238 curated voices), or Max (instruction-based voice design)
  • Generate Speech (Async) — for long text — kicks off a background job so your workflow doesn't time out
  • Check Job — poll an async job until complete
  • Dialogue — multi-speaker conversations with different voices per line
  • Transcribe — audio → text with optional speaker diarization and AI summary
  • List Voices — get all available voice IDs
  • List Curated Voices — browse 238 curated voices with preview audio
  • Check Balance — see your remaining credits

Setup in 60 Seconds

  1. In n8n, go to Settings → Community Nodes → Install
  2. Enter n8n-nodes-leanvox
  3. Add a LeanVox API credential with your API key (get one here)
  4. Drag the LeanVox node into any workflow

Example: Text to Speech in a Workflow

  1. Add a Manual Trigger or Webhook node
  2. Add the LeanVox node
  3. Set Resource to Speech, Operation to Generate
  4. Pick a model: standard for speed, pro for voice quality, max for custom voice instructions
  5. Set a voice ID (e.g. podcast_conversational_female)
  6. Pass your text

The node returns JSON with an audio_url you can pass to any downstream node — upload to S3, send via email, post to Slack, whatever your workflow needs.

Async for Long Content

For longer text (articles, chapters, scripts), use Generate Speech (Async). It queues a background job and returns a job_id. Chain it with the Check Job operation to poll until complete. No timeout issues, even for book-length content.

Pricing

Same credits as the API. Standard $0.005/1K chars · Pro $0.01/1K chars · Max $0.03/1K chars · Transcription $0.002/min. Full pricing.

Links

Originally published at leanvox.com/blog

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