From 815c4b2a2e4eb8d9ceea924ffae3248a4d2be26f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: liamb <liam@lbarr.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 04:37:16 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] throw error on no api

---
 TTS/elevenlabs.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/TTS/elevenlabs.py b/TTS/elevenlabs.py
index 03c8aff..2da8e8e 100644
--- a/TTS/elevenlabs.py
+++ b/TTS/elevenlabs.py
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ class elevenlabs:
         if settings.config["settings"]["tts"]["elevenlabs_api_key"]:
             api_key = settings.config["settings"]["tts"]["elevenlabs_api_key"]
         else:
-            api_key = None
-            print("You didn't set an Elevenlabs API key! Trying without API key, but you'll probably hit an error.")
+            raise ValueError(
+                    "You didn't set an Elevenlabs API key! Please set the config variable ELEVENLABS_API_KEY to a valid API key."
+                )
         
         audio = generate(
             api_key=api_key,