ElevenLabs is a voice AI company. It makes tools for generating speech, music and sound effects, for building conversational agents, and for developers who add voice to their products.

What can I make with it?

ElevenLabs lists narration, advertisement, characters, conversational and social media voices, as well as music, dubbing and speech to text.

ElevenLabs lists voice cloning among its tools. Use it only for a voice you have the right to use, and with that person’s permission.

Should I disclose that a voice is AI?

In many settings, yes. Check the rules of the platform and your own organisation, and tell listeners when they would reasonably want to know.

ElevenLabs: what it does and how to learn it

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is a voice AI company. Its own pages describe ElevenCreative for speech, video, music and sound effects, ElevenAgents for conversational agents, and an API for developers.

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What ElevenLabs does

Generates speech from text in 90+ languages, with controllable and expressive delivery.
Offers text to speech, music, speech to text, voice cloning and dubbing.
Provides an editor for podcasts, audiobooks and voiceovers.
Lets you configure, deploy and monitor conversational agents with ElevenAgents.
Gives developers an API to put voice and audio AI in their own products.

What people use it for

Voice a script
Turn a written script into narration and listen before you record a person.
Localize a video
Use dubbing to make a version in another language, and have a native speaker check it.
Prototype a voice agent
Configure an agent, try it and watch how it behaves before it speaks to customers.

Who it suits

Creators making narration, podcasts, audiobooks or social content.
Developers and teams building voice agents or voice features.

Plans and access

ElevenLabs offers sign-up and contact-sales routes on its homepage. Plans, credits and models change, so read ElevenLabs’ current terms. Cloning or imitating a real person’s voice needs their permission, so get it before you do.

How to start

1Open ElevenLabs and sign up. Open
2Paste a short script into text to speech and compare two voices.
3Listen for pronunciations that are wrong, and fix them before you publish.
4If you want an agent, start with one narrow task and test it by calling it yourself.

Watch and learn

Videos from ElevenLabs’s own channel, so you can learn it here. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. More on the ElevenLabs channel.

ElevenLabs · 2025
How to make AI Voiceovers that sound Human (2025 ElevenLabs Text to Speech Tutorial)
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ElevenLabs · 2024
ElevenLabs Speech to Speech Tutorial
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ElevenLabs · 2025
Make the Best AI Voices with Emotion (Realistic TTS)
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Common questions about ElevenLabs

What is ElevenLabs?: ElevenLabs is a voice AI company. It makes tools for generating speech, music and sound effects, for building conversational agents, and for developers who add voice to their products.
What can I make with it?: ElevenLabs lists narration, advertisement, characters, conversational and social media voices, as well as music, dubbing and speech to text.
Can I clone a voice?: ElevenLabs lists voice cloning among its tools. Use it only for a voice you have the right to use, and with that person’s permission.
Should I disclose that a voice is AI?: In many settings, yes. Check the rules of the platform and your own organisation, and tell listeners when they would reasonably want to know.

Where this comes from

Written from the maker’s own pages, read on 2026-10-13. Plans, limits and features change, so the page you land on is the source.

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