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The latest AI and developer news from ElevenLabs, with short summaries.
Visit website →NEWOpen Source TTS vs Paid APIs: Tradeoffs for Control, Cost, and Data Sovereignty
Paid APIs provide turnkey enterprise-grade speech synthesis with SLAs, while open source models offer data sovereignty and full architectural control at the cost of compute and engineering overhead.
NEWElevenLabs launches Forward Deployed Creatives to help enterprise teams scale AI creative production
The service addresses brand consistency, fragmented tools, and creative control issues by embedding creative professionals who build workflows or deliver finished assets.
NEWOxford Saïd launches SOFIA for Business voice agent to make women founder research accessible
The agent, built on ElevenAgents, allows aspiring founders to converse with insights from the Inspiring Female Founders initiative while contributing new data to the research.
NEWElevenLabs outlines 7 customer service skills for human and AI agents
Gartner predicts at least 70% of customers will start their journey via AI interfaces by 2028, highlighting the need for defined skill sets in hybrid support teams.
NEWElevenLabs extends 1 Million Voices program to offer free ElevenMusic to artists with voice loss
The initiative, which has helped over 11,000 people, now partners with NYU Langone Health and Wounded Warrior Project to expand access to voice AI.
Voice cloning for content creators: How to use ElevenLabs to create more content in your own voice
A guide explains how content creators can use ElevenLabs' voice cloning tools, including Eleven v4 and ElevenCreative, to produce multilingual and consistent content.
ElevenLabs Launches Marketplace for Enterprise AI Agents with Partners Including Salesforce and IBM
The platform offers curated industry-specific AI agents for finance, healthcare, and retail, with purchasing via ElevenLabs commitments planned for next year.
ElevenLabs Launches Partner Program with $52M in Partner-Sourced Revenue
The program targets $3 in services revenue for every $1 in ElevenLabs revenue, supported by 1,100 certified deployment engineers across 350 partner organizations and 550+ active partners.
McKinsey and ElevenLabs announce alliance to scale conversational AI agents
The alliance combines McKinsey's QuantumBlack AI engineering with ElevenLabs' ElevenAgents platform to help clients prove value and scale deployments across industries like insurance and telecom.
ElevenLabs Enterprise Customers: Yahoo, Westgate, KPN, and Twilio Deploy Voice Agents
KPN fine-tuned models to raise Dutch identity-verification accuracy from 50% to 90%, while Yahoo Scout exited beta after 3 billion answers.
ElevenLabs Introduces Interaction Engine, Memory, and Partner Program at NYC Summit
The company introduced new agent features including Memory and Routines, expanded its partner network to 550 firms, and launched a marketplace for industry-specific AI applications.
ElevenLabs and NVIDIA Expand Partnership with Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and 15MW Compute Capacity
The partnership includes a sovereign deployment for Poland's e-Health platform and plans to add 15MW of NVIDIA Vera Rubin capacity.
WAV vs MP3: WAV for lossless editing, MP3 for smaller sharing files
WAV preserves all audio data for editing but is roughly 11 times larger than a 128 kbps MP3, which is better for sharing and streaming.
ElevenLabs launches Scribe v3 and v3 Live with 27% and 43% error reductions
Scribe v3 Live reduces realtime semantic errors by 43% and adds speaker diarization, while Scribe v3 improves batch accuracy in every tested language.
ElevenLabs Explains API Endpoints and Security Best Practices in Practical Guide
The guide defines seven API architectures and details ElevenAPI's use of single-use tokens expiring after 15 minutes for secure client-side connections.
ElevenLabs launches ElevenAgents Campaign Manager for automated outbound campaigns
The tool intelligently runs campaigns to reach outcomes like qualified leads or confirmed appointments, with beta users reporting 100% lead coverage compared to previous 50-60% rates.
Voice AI infrastructure: The 2026 stack and architecture
The architecture comprises nine layers including ASR, turn-taking, LLM orchestration, and telephony, with Eleven v4 Turbo leading the Artificial Analysis Provider Voice Arena Leaderboard.
ElevenMusic adds direct upload integration for SoundCloud
SoundCloud Artist Pro users can unlock three months of free ElevenMusic access with the new integration.
ElevenLabs Ads Engine adds human review for localized ads
Linguists and creative specialists from ElevenProductions and ElevenLabs now review ads in Ads Engine to ensure accuracy and brand consistency before publication.
ElevenLabs releases Unity SDK for voice agents in games
The SDK connects Unity scenes to ElevenLabs agents via microphone input and AudioSource output, supporting desktop, WebGL, and beta mobile/XR platforms.