ElevenLabs just rolled out a new Video-to-Music flow inside ElevenLabs Studio. Powered by its Eleven Music model, it generates custom soundtracks tailored to your video in a single click, and lets you layer in voiceovers and SFX on the spot. It turns video audio production into a one-stop workflow.
ElevenLabs just showed off hybrid song creation, allowing artists to combine real instrument recordings with AI tracks generated by Eleven Music. A single-take demo paired live piano with AI violin and vocals using one-shot prompting, bridging live musicianship and synthetic generation.
ElevenLabs just launched its own AI music generator called Eleven Music, making a massive leap beyond text-to-speech. Learning from the massive copyright lawsuits hitting Suno and Udio, the company partnered with Merlin and Kobalt to ensure artists voluntarily opt in and share revenue, making the generated tracks cleared for commercial use.
Yelp just launched AI-generated restaurant videos nationwide on its iOS app feed. The platform stitches user photos and clips with OpenAI-written scripts, ElevenLabs voiceovers, and Amazon captions to profile local spots. Business owners can't preview them yet, and users currently have no way to opt out of having their photos included.
ElevenLabs just introduced Audio Tags for its Eleven v3 model, letting creators direct the exact timing, rhythm, and emphasis of generated speech. By slipping bracketed cues like [pause], [rushed], or [stammers] right into the script, users can turn monotone readings into nuanced, human-like performances. However, professional voice clones aren't fully optimized for v3 yet.
ElevenLabs just rolled out the alpha release of Eleven v3, its upgraded text-to-speech model featuring heightened emotional awareness and context adaptability. The model supports over 70 languages, up to 5,000 characters per request, and bracketed audio tags for directing whispers and laughter. Why it matters: creators and developers can now generate nuanced, natural character dialogue without hiring voice actors.
Voice AI startups raised $2.1 billion last year, an eightfold spike according to CB Insights. Fueled by real-time breakthroughs from OpenAI and ElevenLabs, full-duplex agents are cheap enough and realistic enough to take over drive-thrus, clinics, and call centers where callers can barely spot the bot.
ElevenLabs just added Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 to its Conversational AI platform to fix the trade-off between speed and deep reasoning in voice bots. The model brings tighter instruction following, long-context memory, and reliable tool calling to real-time speech. Developers can pick it from their dashboard and deploy with a single line of HTML.
ElevenLabs just added true text and voice multimodality to its Conversational AI platform. Agents can now process spoken audio and typed text at the same time, letting users speak naturally and switch to text when spelling out tricky info like emails or card numbers. It is a smart fix for pure-voice transcription headaches.
ElevenLabs just launched Batch Calling for its Conversational AI platform, allowing businesses to blast out hundreds of concurrent outbound calls with voice agents. Teams can upload contact spreadsheets, inject dynamic variables like names or order IDs, and route calls via Twilio or SIP trunking. It basically automates call center outreach at scale.
ElevenLabs just launched the SB-1 Infinite Soundboard, an interactive tool powered by its SFX API. Users can trigger multiple sound effects at once, loop tracks, or instantly generate custom audio clips simply by typing a short text prompt. It gives gamers, streamers, and Discord communities an effortless way to create custom audio cues without digging through royalty-free libraries.
ElevenLabs just rolled out seamless call transfers between agents in its Conversational AI platform. Different teams inside a company can now build specialized agents in parallel, each equipped with its own tools and knowledge base. Why it matters: Complex voice workflows no longer need a bloated, do-it-all bot.
ElevenLabs just rolled out an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, plugging voice cloning, text-to-speech, and transcription straight into Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf. It offers a hosted endpoint so you don't even need to run a local script. Why it matters: Your coding assistants and chat agents can now spit out full audio and soundscapes on demand.
ElevenLabs just rolled out Actor Mode to everyone inside Studio, allowing creators to guide AI voice delivery using their own voice. It gives users hands-on director control over inflection, pacing, and tone instead of relying purely on text prompts.
ElevenLabs just cut speech-to-text pricing by 45% at scale and made its Scribe model completely free via the UI until April 9. The model boasts high accuracy across 99 languages. It is an aggressive move to undercut rivals and attract developers needing high-volume transcription.
ElevenLabs just launched its voice AI models on Google Cloud Marketplace. Enterprises can now easily pair ElevenLabs' lifelike speech generation with Google's fast Gemini 2.0 Flash model to build real-time conversational agents, localized dubbing, and marketing voiceovers within their existing cloud setup.
Deutsche Telekom just partnered with ElevenLabs to embed its Gen FM audio tech directly into the Magenta AI app, letting users turn news articles into podcasts in seconds. The telecom giant also invested in ElevenLabs’ Series C round. It signals a major shift toward making AI speech a default smartphone interface.
ElevenLabs just integrated Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet into its Conversational AI platform. Developers can now combine the hybrid-reasoning model with realistic voice synthesis, building voice agents that handle nuanced queries with fewer hallucinations and tighter context tracking.
ElevenLabs just rolled out Scribe, its first speech-to-text model designed to tackle real-world audio in 99 languages. It delivers structured JSON outputs with word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and audio event tags like laughter, outperforming Whisper Large V3 on benchmark tests. It is available now via API and the web dashboard, with a low-latency real-time edition coming soon.
Hume AI just launched Octave, a speech-language model designed to understand emotional context instead of just reading words aloud. It detects sarcasm, panic, and character nuances straight from scripts or prompts, outperforming ElevenLabs in blind comparisons for audio quality and naturalness.
