ElevenLabs just launched ElevenMusic, a new platform built on its proprietary music model that lets users discover, remix, create, and earn from AI tracks. It marks a major expansion beyond AI voice cloning into music generation, giving creators a built-in monetization path for their songs.
An open-source tool called YouTube Shorts Pipeline just automated short-form video creation down to a single command. It chains Claude, Gemini, ElevenLabs, and Whisper to produce and publish a YouTube Short in 3 to 5 minutes, running locally under an MIT license for around $0.10 per video.
ElevenLabs just launched ElevenAgents for Support, conversational AI agents that handle customer service across voice, phone, email, and WhatsApp in over 90 languages. The platform boasts sub-second response times, over 10,000 expressive voices, and tone adaptation to de-escalate heated issues without awkward pauses. Teams can deploy them directly from existing SOPs with zero coding and hand off complex tickets to human reps with full context.
ElevenLabs just rolled out the first insurance policy for AI voice agents, backed by the AIUC-1 security certification. After passing over 5,000 adversarial tests, companies can now insure their bots against hallucinations and prompt injection attacks. Why it matters: over 95% of enterprise AI pilots stall over legal and security fears, and financial underwriting might be the exact safety net businesses need.
ElevenLabs just introduced Audiobooks in ElevenCreative, turning raw manuscripts into fully voiced audiobooks with a single click. Creators can fine-tune emotional delivery scene by scene, clone their own voice, and publish straight to major listening platforms from one unified dashboard. Producing a professional audiobook just went from weeks in a studio to an afternoon project.
ElevenLabs just made its Eleven v3 text-to-speech model generally available across all platforms. The update heavily refines tricky contextual notation like phone numbers, currencies, and sports scores, cutting reading error rates from 15.3% to 4.9% with a 72% user preference over the alpha.
Open-source local voice tool Voicebox combines instant voice cloning with system-wide dictation, racking up over 42,000 GitHub stars. It can clone voices from a few seconds of audio, type into any text field via global hotkeys, and voice coding agents like Claude Code. Basically, it lets you ditch paid voice subscriptions and run your entire workflow locally.
ElevenLabs just released The Eleven Album, a studio-grade musical release powered by its Eleven Music model and built with Grammy-winning legends. Tracks span rap, pop, and EDM, with artists retaining full copyright ownership and streaming royalties. It signals a notable pivot for AI music, moving from copyright lawsuits to permission-based industry collaboration.
ElevenLabs just launched ElevenLabs Image & Video in beta, turning its voice platform into an all-in-one multimodal creative suite. Users can now generate visuals using models like Sora, Veo, Kling, and Flux, sync them with voiceovers and sound effects, and polish everything inside its Studio editor. It is a big push toward unifying visual and audio creation in a single workflow.
ElevenLabs just partnered with legal AI platform Harvey to add conversational voice features for lawyers. Harvey can now speak answers aloud across dozens of languages and dialects. Upcoming features include real-time voice mode, spoken trial simulations, and custom tones, bringing voice tech straight into top law firms.
ElevenLabs just launched its Iconic Voice Marketplace, letting brands license AI-replicated voices of celebrities and historical figures for ads. The catalog kicks off with 28 names—from living actors like Michael Caine to legends like Alan Turing and Mark Twain—promising royalties and explicit consent. It is a big push to turn sketchy celebrity voice-cloning into legitimate ad revenue.
Matthew McConaughey just revealed he has quietly been an investor in ElevenLabs for years, and now he is putting the technology to work. The Oscar-winning actor is tapping ElevenLabs to clone his unmistakable voice to deliver his newsletter in Spanish. Why it matters: A-list talent backing and adopting synthetic voice sets a major milestone for celebrity IP and multilingual publishing.
ElevenLabs just launched Scribe v2 Realtime, a low-latency speech-to-text model built specifically for live voice agents and meeting assistants. It transcribes audio in under 150 ms across 90 languages and uses next-word prediction to cut perceived lag. This brings conversational AI much closer to natural, instant banter.
Fish Audio just publicly launched Fish Audio S1, pitching it as the market's most expressive and natural TTS model. The platform is priced six times cheaper than ElevenLabs, boasting 20,000 active developers, $5 million in ARR, and free voice cloning to get started.
ElevenLabs just launched Studio 3.0, packaging its AI voiceover, music, sound effects, voice isolation, and voice changer tools into an editor that now supports video. The update also adds automatic captioning, real-life speech correction, and multiplayer commenting.
ElevenLabs just launched Productions, a new managed service that pairs voice tech with a network of linguists and audio professionals. Built for creators and media brands, the human-in-the-loop setup delivers end-to-end polish for dubbing, subtitles, transcription, and audiobooks so final outputs actually sound natural.
ElevenLabs just rolled out Agents Testing, a new suite that lets developers run structured simulations on conversational agents before shipping updates. It validates tool calling, human handoffs, and guardrails, and can turn past customer chats into test suites inside your CI/CD pipeline. Why it matters: teams can finally update prompts without fear of silent regressions.
ElevenLabs just rolled out Eleven v3 (alpha) across its API, bringing realistic multi-speaker dialogue and emotional control to developers. The model supports over 70 languages and can handle natural interruptions between unlimited speakers using audio tags. Partners like HeyGen, InVideo, and Poe have already integrated the update.
ElevenLabs just rolled out Chat Mode, letting developers build text-only AI agents or toggle existing voice bots into chat. It is built for situations where typing is preferred or precise data like order IDs and emails are required, deploying in minutes with a single line of HTML or SDK.
ElevenLabs just rolled out the Eleven Music API, pitched as the first music API for developers trained on licensed data and fully cleared for commercial use. It lets teams plug AI music directly into their products and workflows. The company also noted that creators have already generated over 750k songs since Eleven Music debuted.
