A side-by-side look at the ElevenLabs and MCP Voice Summary MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose ElevenLabs for text-to-speech work over a hosted endpoint; choose MCP Voice Summary for text-to-speech as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
language, gender.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | E ElevenLabs | M MCP Voice Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Text-to-Speech | Text-to-Speech |
| Quality signal | 41/100 · Fair | 52/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Remote HTTP/SSE | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | No auth required |
| Pricing | Not declared | Free |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 3 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | Not listed | 2 |
| Full listing | View ElevenLabs | View MCP Voice Summary |
No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
languagean ISO 639-1 code (`es`, `en`, `fr`), a regional variantgender`"f"` or `"m"`, or `"any"` to follow the language default. EmptyPaste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elevenlabs-2": {
"url": "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-voice-summary": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-voice-summary"
]
}
}
}