diff --git a/changelog.d/fixes/10589-elevenlabs-voice-mapping.md b/changelog.d/fixes/10589-elevenlabs-voice-mapping.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..58efe3fd72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/fixes/10589-elevenlabs-voice-mapping.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- fix(sse): map OpenAI-compat voice names to real ElevenLabs voice_ids in direct TTS (#10589)
diff --git a/open-sse/handlers/audioSpeech.ts b/open-sse/handlers/audioSpeech.ts
index 912c81e27f..32ef003110 100644
--- a/open-sse/handlers/audioSpeech.ts
+++ b/open-sse/handlers/audioSpeech.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import { handleAwsPollySpeech } from "../executors/awsPollyTts.ts";
 import { handleEdgeTtsSpeech } from "../executors/edgeTts.ts";
 import { GttsUpstreamError, normalizeGttsLang, synthesizeGtts } from "../executors/gtts.ts";
 import { errorResponse } from "../utils/error.ts";
+import { resolveElevenLabsVoiceId } from "./elevenLabsVoiceMap.ts";
 import { audioStreamResponse, upstreamErrorResponse } from "../utils/audioResponse.ts";
 import {
   getKieCallbackUrl,
@@ -263,8 +264,20 @@ async function handleSonioxSpeech(providerConfig, body, modelId, token) {
  * voice_id is mapped from the OpenAI `voice` parameter
  */
 async function handleElevenLabsSpeech(providerConfig, body, modelId, token) {
-  // ElevenLabs uses voice_id in URL path; default to "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM" (Rachel)
-  const voiceId = body.voice || "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM";
+  // ElevenLabs uses voice_id in URL path. body.voice may be an OpenAI stock voice name
+  // (alloy, echo, ...), a known ElevenLabs display name (Rachel, ...), or a raw voice_id;
+  // resolve it to a real voice_id before it ever reaches the URL. Defaults to Rachel
+  // ("21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM") when omitted.
+  if (typeof body.voice === "string" && !isValidPathSegment(body.voice)) {
+    return errorResponse(400, "Invalid voice ID");
+  }
+  const voiceId = resolveElevenLabsVoiceId(body.voice);
+  if (!voiceId) {
+    return errorResponse(
+      400,
+      "Unknown ElevenLabs voice. Provide a real ElevenLabs voice_id, a supported OpenAI voice name (alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, shimmer), or a known ElevenLabs display name."
+    );
+  }
   if (!isValidPathSegment(voiceId)) {
     return errorResponse(400, "Invalid voice ID");
   }
diff --git a/open-sse/handlers/elevenLabsVoiceMap.ts b/open-sse/handlers/elevenLabsVoiceMap.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..676fe4fb94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open-sse/handlers/elevenLabsVoiceMap.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/**
+ * OpenAI-compat `voice` name -> ElevenLabs `voice_id` resolution.
+ *
+ * ElevenLabs' TTS endpoint takes a real `voice_id` (a ~20-char alphanumeric token, e.g.
+ * `21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM`) as a URL path segment. OpenAI TTS stock voice names (`alloy`,
+ * `echo`, ...) and ElevenLabs human-readable display names (`Rachel`) are not valid
+ * `voice_id`s on their own — forwarding them unmapped 404s upstream. This module resolves
+ * a client-supplied `voice` value to a real `voice_id`, or reports that it cannot.
+ *
+ * See #10589.
+ */
+
+// OpenAI TTS stock voice names -> real ElevenLabs voice_id (premade voices, widely
+// available across ElevenLabs accounts/plans).
+const OPENAI_VOICE_TO_ELEVENLABS_ID: Record<string, string> = {
+  alloy: "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM", // Rachel
+  echo: "pNInz6obpgDQGcFmaJgB", // Adam
+  fable: "nPczCjzI2devNBz1zQrb", // Brian
+  onyx: "ErXwobaYiN019PkySvjV", // Antoni
+  nova: "EXAVITQu4vr4xnSDxMaL", // Bella
+  shimmer: "ThT5KcBeYPX3keUQqHPh", // Dorothy
+};
+
+// A handful of well-known ElevenLabs display names -> voice_id, matched case-insensitively,
+// so a request like `voice: "Rachel"` (a real display name but not a raw voice_id) resolves
+// instead of 404-ing upstream.
+const ELEVENLABS_DISPLAY_NAME_TO_ID: Record<string, string> = {
+  rachel: "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM",
+  adam: "pNInz6obpgDQGcFmaJgB",
+  brian: "nPczCjzI2devNBz1zQrb",
+  antoni: "ErXwobaYiN019PkySvjV",
+  bella: "EXAVITQu4vr4xnSDxMaL",
+  dorothy: "ThT5KcBeYPX3keUQqHPh",
+};
+
+export const ELEVENLABS_DEFAULT_VOICE_ID = "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM"; // Rachel
+
+// A real ElevenLabs voice_id is a ~20-char alphanumeric token (e.g. 21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM).
+const ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9]{16,32}$/;
+
+/**
+ * Resolve an OpenAI-compat `voice` value (or ElevenLabs display name) to a real
+ * ElevenLabs voice_id. Returns null when the value is present but cannot be
+ * resolved to a known alias and does not itself look like a raw voice_id.
+ */
+export function resolveElevenLabsVoiceId(voice: unknown): string | null {
+  if (voice === undefined || voice === null || voice === "") {
+    return ELEVENLABS_DEFAULT_VOICE_ID;
+  }
+  if (typeof voice !== "string") {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const trimmed = voice.trim();
+  if (!trimmed) {
+    return ELEVENLABS_DEFAULT_VOICE_ID;
+  }
+  const lower = trimmed.toLowerCase();
+  if (OPENAI_VOICE_TO_ELEVENLABS_ID[lower]) {
+    return OPENAI_VOICE_TO_ELEVENLABS_ID[lower];
+  }
+  if (ELEVENLABS_DISPLAY_NAME_TO_ID[lower]) {
+    return ELEVENLABS_DISPLAY_NAME_TO_ID[lower];
+  }
+  if (ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID_PATTERN.test(trimmed)) {
+    return trimmed;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
diff --git a/tests/unit/audio-speech-handler.test.ts b/tests/unit/audio-speech-handler.test.ts
index 49d24998c9..dfe0961d2f 100644
--- a/tests/unit/audio-speech-handler.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/audio-speech-handler.test.ts
@@ -132,6 +132,128 @@ test("handleAudioSpeech rejects invalid ElevenLabs voice identifiers", async ()
   }
 });
 
+test("handleAudioSpeech maps OpenAI stock voice name alloy to a real ElevenLabs voice_id", async () => {
+  const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  let capturedUrl;
+
+  globalThis.fetch = async (url) => {
+    capturedUrl = String(url);
+    return new Response(new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]), {
+      status: 200,
+      headers: { "content-type": "audio/mpeg" },
+    });
+  };
+
+  try {
+    const response = await handleAudioSpeech({
+      body: {
+        model: "elevenlabs/eleven_multilingual_v2",
+        input: "hello",
+        voice: "alloy",
+      },
+      credentials: { apiKey: "xi-key" },
+    });
+
+    assert.equal(response.status, 200);
+    assert.equal(
+      capturedUrl,
+      "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM"
+    );
+  } finally {
+    globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+  }
+});
+
+test("handleAudioSpeech resolves ElevenLabs display name 'rachel' case-insensitively", async () => {
+  const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  let capturedUrl;
+
+  globalThis.fetch = async (url) => {
+    capturedUrl = String(url);
+    return new Response(new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]), {
+      status: 200,
+      headers: { "content-type": "audio/mpeg" },
+    });
+  };
+
+  try {
+    const response = await handleAudioSpeech({
+      body: {
+        model: "elevenlabs/eleven_multilingual_v2",
+        input: "hello",
+        voice: "rachel",
+      },
+      credentials: { apiKey: "xi-key" },
+    });
+
+    assert.equal(response.status, 200);
+    assert.equal(
+      capturedUrl,
+      "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM"
+    );
+  } finally {
+    globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+  }
+});
+
+test("handleAudioSpeech defaults to Rachel's voice_id when voice is omitted", async () => {
+  const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  let capturedUrl;
+
+  globalThis.fetch = async (url) => {
+    capturedUrl = String(url);
+    return new Response(new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]), {
+      status: 200,
+      headers: { "content-type": "audio/mpeg" },
+    });
+  };
+
+  try {
+    const response = await handleAudioSpeech({
+      body: {
+        model: "elevenlabs/eleven_multilingual_v2",
+        input: "hello",
+      },
+      credentials: { apiKey: "xi-key" },
+    });
+
+    assert.equal(response.status, 200);
+    assert.equal(
+      capturedUrl,
+      "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM"
+    );
+  } finally {
+    globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+  }
+});
+
+test("handleAudioSpeech returns 400 for an unresolvable ElevenLabs voice name instead of forwarding upstream", async () => {
+  const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  let called = false;
+  globalThis.fetch = async () => {
+    called = true;
+    throw new Error("should not fetch");
+  };
+
+  try {
+    const response = await handleAudioSpeech({
+      body: {
+        model: "elevenlabs/eleven_turbo_v2_5",
+        input: "unknown voice",
+        voice: "totally-not-a-voice",
+      },
+      credentials: { apiKey: "xi-key" },
+    });
+    const payload = (await response.json()) as { error: { message: string } };
+
+    assert.equal(response.status, 400);
+    assert.match(payload.error.message, /Unknown ElevenLabs voice/);
+    assert.equal(called, false);
+  } finally {
+    globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+  }
+});
+
 test("handleAudioSpeech maps Cartesia voice and wav output settings", async () => {
   const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
   let captured;