Voiceovers

The Voiceover plugin turns a PDF slide deck into a narrated MP4 video and a text transcript. Hand Claude a PDF of your slides and say “make a narrated video from this deck.” Claude drafts the narration for each slide, a local app lets you review and edit the script, pick a voice, and generate the video. The finished .mp4 and .txt land in your working directory, ready to post to your course site or share with students.

Key features:

• Claude writes the narration. It reads the slide content, understands the flow, and drafts a natural spoken script — one segment per slide. You review and edit before generating.
• Choose from a library of voices. The app uses ElevenLabs for high-quality, natural-sounding speech synthesis. An ElevenLabs API key is required (a free tier is available).
• Saved by name. Each deck is saved so you can reopen it later to tweak the narration and regenerate without starting over.
• Runs entirely locally. Inside Academic Studio, the app opens in an in-editor browser tab. In VS Code or Claude Code CLI, it opens a separate browser tab. Students receive only the finished video and transcript — they run nothing.

Requirements

• An ElevenLabs API key (free tier available; Claude will walk you through setup the first time).
• Quarto (installed via Help → Run Setup… in Academic Studio).

Installation

Ask Claude to install it: say “install the voiceover plugin.” Claude will set up everything needed. The plugin works in Academic Studio, Claude Code CLI, and the Code mode of Claude Desktop.