# POST /v1/convai/test-invocations/{test_invocation_id}/cancel (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-02

> Cancel Test Invocation

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/test-invocations/test-invocation-id/cancel' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| test_invocation_id | path | string | Yes | The id of a test invocation. This is returned when tests... |

## Response (200 OK)
null

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