ElevenLabs

You can now generate smart personal podcasts from any of your PDFs, articles, eBooks, links or text in 32 languages within our iOS app. Tune in as our AI co-hosts discuss your favorite books, articles, research papers, or class notes in an engaging GenFM podcast. Hear some of our favorites below in the comments. Share your best episodes and we’ll re-post our top picks.

Excited to partner with Eric Schmidt (Former CEO of Google), the estate of Dr. Henry Kissinger (Former United States Secretary of State), and Sandblast Productions to recreate Kissinger's voice for the Genesis book promo: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/ekpNGN2z

We're thrilled to help make Lex Fridman's conversation with Javier Milei available in both English and Spanish through AI dubbing, and to play a part in making important conversations like this accessible across languages.

Auto-regenerate is live in Projects. Each time you generate audio, we check the output for mispronunciations and unwanted audio artifacts. If we detect any, we’ll automatically regenerate the audio at no extra cost. This update, along with the ability to playback audio at 2x speed, has reduced the time needed to quality-check longform content by up to 70% among our beta group.

Last weekend we hosted hackathons at our NYC & London offices. We were blown away by the creativity and speed from all the participants. Here are some of the winning projects: Kaizen from Aakash Thumaty (1st place - NYC): A fitness app that feels like a game. It uses computer vision to track movement and AI characters to keep players active in a virtual world. Demo: https://lnkd.in/eAbFxrCT Two Somethin’ from Evan Gauer and Jordan Rothstein (2nd place - NYC): An AI that takes over customer service calls for you, handling everything so you don’t have to wait on hold. Demo: https://lnkd.in/eSw9CQYV Pokémon IRL from Raymond Wang (3rd place - NYC): A game where players control Pokémon battles with voice commands instead of buttons, using AI to animate the actions in real time. Demo: https://lnkd.in/e8CFW-Sq Runewell from Jeremy Hindle and Nathalia Rus (1st place - London): An app that lets users create custom voice casts for their favorite stories, adding familiar voices to each character in the story. Demo: https://lnkd.in/es-Fqwby PersuAIsion from Sivesh Sukumar, Josh Warwick, and Martin Szummer (2nd place - London): A tool to practice social skills. It simulates different conversations, letting users work on negotiation, sales, or personal interactions. Website: https://lnkd.in/e3CpQv-6 Demo: https://lnkd.in/e658bD3E Ryoko Travel from Ben Butterworth, Miki Suzuki, and Jim Plimmer (3rd place - London): An app that creates short videos of travel memories. Users can add photos, talk about their experiences, and get a video they can share in multiple languages. Demo: https://lnkd.in/eS78XYcp 6Sense from Michael Martin, Kesku, and David Gelberg (London - AI Tinkerers Prize): A digital assistant that combines live video input with voice feedback to help users understand what’s happening around them—especially useful for those with visual impairments. Demo: https://lnkd.in/eDCBUgje Thank you to our judges Sriram Krishnan, Aarthi Ramamurthy, Louis Knight-Webb, Imogen M., Bryan Kim, Larry James Erwin, aditi sundararaman, and Pablo Pernías. and our cohosts Andreessen Horowitz, Captions, Luma AI, Cerebral Valley, OpenAI, Synthesia and AI Tinkerers! We look forward to hosting more events with amazing builders soon.

This week, alongside exciting announcements and launches of new products and features, we want to share a few stories about how some remarkable members of the ElevenLabs community are using our tools. Meet Della Larsen. After her ALS diagnosis, she used our voice AI to record 30 children's books for her future grandchildren. Each book has a QR code, letting them hear her read stories as if she were right there with them. https://lnkd.in/ejhJe3TZ The Verdella program offers guidance to DFV survivors, making support accessible to those who need it most. Our partnership with WorkHaven helps bring these voices in 9 languages in a way that feels natural. https://lnkd.in/eCcF2tFd Wondercraft's platform has facilitated the creation of over 15k hours of podcasts, ads and audiobooks for big companies, like Amazon, Novartis, Siemens, and Canon, and well-known creators, like Steven Bartlett, Ali Abdaal and Lewis Howes. https://lnkd.in/eymGrRAM CreatorKit.com - AI photos and videos that sell. creates multiple voice clones for each actor - so businesses can create authentic video ads whether the scene calls for excitement, curiosity, or calm. They’ve seen a 16% boost in video ad creation after integrating ElevenLabs. https://lnkd.in/eg4E8J4y In his horror short Unblind, Mark Wachholz lets sound build the tension. Whispers, shouts, and a mother’s chilling tone, crafted with our tools, pull you straight into the story—you feel it as much as hear it. https://lnkd.in/ershh8AB

We’re revamping Projects, our long-form audio narration tool.   Creators, publishers and businesses use projects to turn books into audiobooks, scripts into voiceovers, or any text into high quality multi-speaker dialogue. Now you can - Assign multiple voices within a paragraph to create multi-speaker dialogue.  - Adjust the voice settings across multiple paragraphs or just for a portion of the dialogue to add extra emphasis or produce a unique delivery. - Adjust playback speed to QC at 2x speed. - Compare and restore previous generations with generation history. - Lock each section once you’ve got it just right to track and secure your progress. - And finally - we heard your feedback - now you can regenerate a part of a sentence or even a single word to fine-tune your output. For a summary of all of the updates: https://lnkd.in/eK-xVPCg To narrate your next story with Projects, get started here: https://lnkd.in/e6MNYPha

Today is 11/11 – ElevenDay – our favorite day of the year. There’s no better time for us to begin a week of exciting announcements and launches of new products and features. Up first, we’re proud to announce an expansion of our global reach. We have users across the world creating content in 32 languages. Our team of more than 100 hails from 29 different countries. And our London and New York hubs are growing fast. Today, we’re committing to invest $11M into the Polish AI ecosystem over the next five years. 11/11 is also Poland’s Independence Day - we are led by two Polish founders and our name is no coincidence. As part of that investment, we are opening a Warsaw office which will serve as our R&D center aimed at attracting AI talent from Poland and the entire CEE region. We’re also announcing our expansion into India, where we have appointed local leadership, and are building a team to better serve our Indian customers, users, and partners. Our investments include localizing technology capabilities, expanding coverage for Indic languages, and growing the Voice Library. No matter where you live, please join us on our mission by applying to an open role here: elevenlabs.io/careers Stay tuned for more updates throughout the week, including an enhanced long form audio editor, interactive AI voice agents, team collaboration tools, and a unique medium for consuming audio stories on the go.

It’s 11/11 - the day we launched our very first Beta and now, the start of a week where each day we will bring a new set of innovations to further our mission of accessible content & communication with audio AI. Exactly 2 years ago, our first users joined the platform to create audio experiences using the first ElevenLabs model. Our goal, as captured by the image of our initial site, was simple - help others transform their work into great quality audio. Fast-forward to today, we are immensely proud to have built an entire AI audio product ecosystem, with an incredible user community consisting of millions of individuals and thousands of leading companies. 

However, we realize how much is still left to build - on both research and product front.  And this week we’ll introduce the tools and features that have kept us busy over the last few weeks. You’ll see an enhanced narration product, a brand new way of deploying AI voice agents, fresh collaboration capabilities, and a unique medium for creating and consuming long-form content. To start, we we couldn't be happier, to announce the investment of $11M into the Polish AI ecosystem over the next five years, on this special day.

AI dubbing adds up to 1 million extra views per video for YouTube creator and world traveler Drew Binsky. Since June,  Drew has dubbed videos into Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, German, and Italian, using ElevenLabs’ Dubbing Studio, boosting views to an average of 2.6M per video vs. 1.1M for non-dubbed videos. For Drew, this allowed him to stay true to his style, sharing his stories to audiences worldwide. For ElevenLabs, it reinforced a simple truth: meeting viewers in their own language can turn good stories into global ones. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e-5x9GWd Drew Binsky's content: https://lnkd.in/dRiu4kSU