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Passing the Turing test for voice agents.
We just shipped a major ElevenAgents update:
- Lower-latency, smoother turn-taking with new conversational model
- Expressive Mode for contextual emotional delivery
- Available in 70+ languages
Mati Staniszewski
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- Inspired by @lexfridman & @narendramodi’s conversation - so proud of our team for making it accessible in both English & Hindi. ElevenLabs was founded on the back of poor-quality dubbing. Seeing it evolve into an immersive experience that preserves emotion & intent is incredibleHere's my conversation with @narendramodi, Prime Minister of India. It was one of the most moving & powerful conversations and experiences of my life. This episode is fully dubbed into multiple languages including English and Hindi. It's also available in the original (mix of
00:00 - Turns out... worst possible launch day 😅
- We’re excited to share that NVIDIA is investing in ElevenLabs, with support from Jensen Huang. Last week’s U.S. state visit to the UK strengthened AI ties. With our roots growing deeper in both places, this partnership and conversation were the perfect way to cap it off.
00:00 - Today, a new chapter begins for ElevenLabs - we closed our $180M Series C co-led by a16z & ICONIQ to give every AI agent a voice.
- Today, @elevenlabs is launching a $100M employee tender co-led by Sequoia & ICONIQ at a $6.6B valuation - 2x since Series C just 9 months ago. With ARR >$200M in <3 years and enterprise adoption surging, we’re aligning the team for long term while helping them realize value now
- First trip to India 🇮🇳 this week - with Keir Starmer & 125 leaders on the UK’s largest trade mission. India is already voice-first: one third of internet users use voice search monthly. Today it's ElevenLabs #1 market by signups & #2 by enterprise revenue - and we will do more!
- Eleven Music is here! Created with leading labels, publishers & artists, it lets you craft studio-quality tracks with control over genre, style & language, using just text. Built on licensed catalogs; every song you create is cleared for commercial use!
- Introducing Eleven v3 (alpha) - our most expressive Text to Speech model yet. - Full emotion control - Multi-speaker dialogue - 70+ languages It’s a research preview: takes a bit of prompting, but when it’s right, the output is breathtaking!
- We don’t often share numbers, but with yesterday’s announcement it felt right to provide a bit of context. Alongside the employee tender, we shared that ElevenLabs has now reached $200M ARR. Our valuation is tied to our growth and revenue. In AI, things can shift quickly - both
- Replying to @matiShould we re-launch next week? A few v3 tricks remaining!
- Andreessen Horowitz has supported us at ElevenLabs from our earliest days - and almost no investor has helped the company more than their brilliant team and our partners Jennifer and Bryan - including a few sleepless nights. Beyond help, we have a couple of crazy stories too.
- Replying to @matiOne day, this will be the default and we won’t stop until it is!
- So excited for the start of a partnership between @elevenlabs and @Spotify, enabling authors and publishers to distribute AI-generated audiobooks to millions of users.
