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How to add sound effects to your video with ElevenLabs video-to-sound generator

Bring your videos to life with ElevenLabs! Our AI analyzes your footage and creates immersive sound effects in seconds.

Mar 4, 2025

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Ryan Morrison, Growth

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Voice agents and Conversational AI: new trends for developers in 2025

Stay on top of the latest voice agents/Conversational AI trends.

Mar 3, 2025

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What are the best Audible alternatives?

Discover the 5 top Audible alternatives.

Mar 3, 2025

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How to create AI sound effects and background voices with AI-generated technology

Exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence in sound design.

Mar 1, 2025

Customer stories

Poolday AI triples UGC video production output

Helping teams deploy, test, and iterate marketing content at scale

Feb 28, 2025

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Carles Reina, GTM

Developer

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Developer

Announcing the winners of the ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon

Congrats to the winners of the inaugural ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon and thank you to all the participants, sponsors, and helpers!

Feb 28, 2025

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Louis Jordan,

Thor Schaeff

Research

Introducing IISubscribe V1, the world's most accurate speech-to-text model.

Research

Introducing IIscribe V1, the world's most accurate speech-to-text model.

Meet Scribe

Transcribe Speech to Text with the world's most accurate ASR model

Feb 26, 2025

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Tim von Känel,

Flavio Schneider

Company

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Company

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What happens when two AI voice assistants have a conversation?

At the ElevenLabs London Hackathon, developers created GibberLink, a protocol that lets AI agents recognize each other and switch to a hyper-efficient sound-based language

Feb 25, 2025

Product

Product

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Bring your story to life with ElevenReader Publishing

The fastest, zero-cost way to create and distribute audiobooks globally

Feb 25, 2025

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Hongbo Wu,

Jackson Harper,

Louise Meyer-Schoenherr

Agents Platform Stories

Decagon Partners with ElevenLabs to Bring AI Voice Agents to Customer Service

Elevating customer experiences with AI voice agents

Feb 24, 2025

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Jack Piunti, GTM

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ElevenLabs vs. Sierra.ai

Which platform is more effective for conversational AI?

Feb 22, 2025

Product

Product

Spotify is now accepting Audiobooks narrated by ElevenLabs

More people are listening to audiobooks than ever before. But for many independent authors, getting an audio version of their work published on major platforms has been expensive and time-consuming — until now.

Feb 20, 2025

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James McAulay,

Mateusz Kopeć

Customer stories

We’re partnering with Star Sports to localize cricket content across languages

Giving cricket fans across India access to their favorite player's insights in English, Hindi, Tamil and other Indian languages.

Feb 20, 2025

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Rohit Sharma, GTM

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Person wearing a virtual reality headset in a neon-lit environment.

How text to speech enhances virtual tours and immersive experiences

Bring virtual experiences to life with compelling text to speech narration.

Feb 19, 2025

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Digital illustration of two holographic human figures, one in blue and one in white, running towards each other in a high-tech environment with waveforms and digital elements.

ElevenLabs vs. Play.ai

Which platform is better for conversational AI applications?

Feb 17, 2025

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Announcing the ElevenLabs Award Winners in the Project Odyssey AI Film Competition

After reviewing 4500 submissions (190 hours of film!) to the world's largest AI Film Festival – Project Odyssey - we can now finally reveal the grand prize winners of the ElevenLabs award.

Feb 14, 2025