AI Usage at a Glance
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Oct 1, 2023
Creative GenPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers an AI Dubbing tool that automatically translates and re-voices audio and video content in up to 29 languages via the web interface and 32 languages via the API, while preserving the original speakers' voices, emotions, and timing. The tool launched in October 2023.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Jan 1, 2024
Creative GenPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers an AI text-to-speech platform that converts written text into natural-sounding spoken audio across 70+ languages using deep learning voice models. Users can generate speech using pre-built voices, cloned voices, or custom-designed voices via a web platform or API.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Jan 1, 2024
Creative GenPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers Voice Design, a tool launched in February 2023 that generates entirely new AI voices from a text description, allowing users to create a voice that has no real-world equivalent without uploading any audio recordings. The tool is available to all registered users, including those on the free tier, and produces three unique voice options per prompt for preview and selection.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Jan 1, 2024
ModerationPractice documented: ElevenLabs uses an AI-based content moderation system that embeds inaudible watermarks in all audio it generates and offers a public AI Speech Classifier tool that detects whether an audio clip was created using ElevenLabs' technology.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Jan 1, 2024
Creative GenPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers an AI voice cloning tool that lets users create a digital replica of any voice by uploading audio samples, which are analyzed to capture vocal characteristics like tone, pitch, accent, and speaking style. The cloned voice can then generate new speech from text.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Mar 20, 2024
ModerationNew evidence: Why AI watermarks miss the mark in preventing misinformation
Evidence AddedView practice →May 1, 2024
Creative GenPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers a text-to-sound-effects generator that produces custom sound effects, soundscapes, and ambient audio from natural language text prompts. The tool was first released in May 2024, with a second-generation model (SFX V2) launched in September 2025.
Practice DocumentedView practice →May 31, 2024
Creative GenNew evidence: ElevenLabs debuts AI-powered tool to generate sound effects
Evidence AddedView practice →Jun 1, 2024
OtherPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers ElevenReader, a mobile app for iOS and Android launched in June 2024 that uses AI text-to-speech to read aloud books, PDFs, articles, ePubs, and newsletters in 30+ languages using ElevenLabs' AI voices.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Jun 2, 2024
Creative GenNew evidence: Free AI Voice Generator | 10,000+ Voices in 70+ Languages
Evidence AddedView practice →Jun 25, 2024
OtherNew evidence: ElevenLabs — Introducing the ElevenLabs Reader App
Evidence AddedView practice →Jul 18, 2024
ModerationNew evidence: ElevenLabs and Reality Defender Partner On AI Safety
Evidence AddedView practice →Nov 1, 2024
Customer SvcPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers a Conversational AI platform, launched in November 2024 and updated to version 2.0 in June 2025, that allows businesses and developers to build and deploy interactive AI voice agents for customer service, sales, scheduling, and other workflows. The platform powers over three million voice agents deployed globally.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Nov 18, 2024
Customer SvcNew evidence: ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents
Evidence AddedView practice →Dec 1, 2024
ProductivityPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers Scribe, an AI speech-to-text model that converts audio and video recordings into accurate, structured text transcripts in 99 languages, with features including speaker labeling, word-level timestamps, and audio-event tagging. Scribe launched in December 2024, with Scribe v2 following in January 2026.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Dec 18, 2024
ProductivityNew evidence: ElevenLabs — Meet Scribe the world's most accurate ASR model
Evidence AddedView practice →Feb 1, 2025
Creative GenNew evidence: Eleven v3: Most Expressive AI TTS Model Launched
Evidence AddedView practice →Jun 1, 2025
Customer SvcNew evidence: ElevenLabs Conversational AI 2.0 voice agents now live
Evidence AddedView practice →Aug 5, 2025
Creative GenPractice documented: ElevenLabs offers Eleven Music, an AI music generation service launched on August 5, 2025, that produces studio-grade music tracks from natural language text prompts across any genre or style. The model was trained on licensed data; ElevenLabs also announced licensing agreements with Merlin Network and Kobalt Music Group to train a forthcoming Eleven Music Pro model.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Nov 11, 2025
ProductivityNew evidence: ElevenLabs Launches Scribe v2 Realtime Speech-To-Text Model with Ultra-low Latency
Evidence AddedView practice →Jan 1, 2026
ModerationNew evidence: An overview of Safety framework for AI voice agents
Evidence AddedView practice →Feb 12, 2026
Customer SvcNew evidence: ElevenLabs secures first-of-its-kind AI Agent insurance
Evidence AddedView practice →Mar 17, 2026
OtherPractice documented: ElevenLabs deployed a voice restoration program called '1 Million Voices,' announced in 2024, that uses AI voice cloning to create personalized digital voices for people who have lost the ability to speak due to conditions such as ALS, cancer, or stroke.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Apr 2, 2026
Creative GenNew evidence: ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music-generation app
Evidence AddedView practice →Recent activity
ElevenLabs offers Voice Design, a tool launched in February 2023 that generates entirely new AI voices from a text description, allowing users to create a voice that has no real-world equivalent without uploading any audio recordings. The tool is available to all registered users, including those on the free tier, and produces three unique voice options per prompt for preview and selection.
Voice Design takes a natural language prompt describing desired vocal characteristics, such as gender, age, accent, and personality, and generates three unique synthetic voice options as output. Each generation introduces randomness so that voices produced from the same prompt are distinct from one another. The tool is positioned as a supplement to the Voice Library for cases where no existing voice fits a project. Generated voices can be previewed and saved to a user's voice library for use in subsequent text-to-speech generation. The tool is also accessible via the ElevenLabs API.
ElevenLabs offers a text-to-sound-effects generator that produces custom sound effects, soundscapes, and ambient audio from natural language text prompts. The tool was first released in May 2024, with a second-generation model (SFX V2) launched in September 2025.
The sound effects generator takes a text description as input, such as 'waves crashing' or 'racing car engine,' and produces an audio clip as output. Paid-plan users receive a commercial license for generated audio; free-plan users must attribute ElevenLabs and may not use output commercially. ElevenLabs stated that its original model was trained using Shutterstock's licensed audio library. The SFX V2 model, announced September 2, 2025, extended the maximum clip duration from 22 to 30 seconds, added seamless looping, and raised the sample rate from 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz. The tool is available via the web dashboard and API.
ElevenLabs offers an AI text-to-speech platform that converts written text into natural-sounding spoken audio across 70+ languages using deep learning voice models. Users can generate speech using pre-built voices, cloned voices, or custom-designed voices via a web platform or API.
The platform's core text-to-speech system takes written text as input and produces audio files with realistic intonation, emotion, and pacing as output. ElevenLabs' models are trained to interpret contextual aspects of text, detecting emotional cues such as anger, sadness, or happiness, to adjust delivery accordingly. The Eleven v3 model, which reached general availability in March 2026, added inline audio tags and a Text to Dialogue API for multi-speaker generation, enabling voices that sigh, whisper, laugh, and react within a single output.
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ElevenLabs offers Voice Design, a tool launched in February 2023 that generates entirely new AI voices from a text description, allowing users to create a voice that has no real-world equivalent without uploading any audio recordings. The tool is available to all registered users, including those on the free tier, and produces three unique voice options per prompt for preview and selection.
ElevenLabs offers a text-to-sound-effects generator that produces custom sound effects, soundscapes, and ambient audio from natural language text prompts. The tool was first released in May 2024, with a second-generation model (SFX V2) launched in September 2025.
ElevenLabs offers an AI text-to-speech platform that converts written text into natural-sounding spoken audio across 70+ languages using deep learning voice models. Users can generate speech using pre-built voices, cloned voices, or custom-designed voices via a web platform or API.
ElevenLabs offers an AI Dubbing tool that automatically translates and re-voices audio and video content in up to 29 languages via the web interface and 32 languages via the API, while preserving the original speakers' voices, emotions, and timing. The tool launched in October 2023.
ElevenLabs offers Eleven Music, an AI music generation service launched on August 5, 2025, that produces studio-grade music tracks from natural language text prompts across any genre or style. The model was trained on licensed data; ElevenLabs also announced licensing agreements with Merlin Network and Kobalt Music Group to train a forthcoming Eleven Music Pro model.
ElevenLabs offers an AI voice cloning tool that lets users create a digital replica of any voice by uploading audio samples, which are analyzed to capture vocal characteristics like tone, pitch, accent, and speaking style. The cloned voice can then generate new speech from text.
ElevenLabs offers ElevenReader, a mobile app for iOS and Android launched in June 2024 that uses AI text-to-speech to read aloud books, PDFs, articles, ePubs, and newsletters in 30+ languages using ElevenLabs' AI voices.
ElevenLabs deployed a voice restoration program called '1 Million Voices,' announced in 2024, that uses AI voice cloning to create personalized digital voices for people who have lost the ability to speak due to conditions such as ALS, cancer, or stroke.
Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). ElevenLabs: documented AI practices (data as of 2026-04-27) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/company/4c44fa3a-7551-4e97-bb16-170d2a602f5b. Accessed September 7, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/company/4c44fa3a-7551-4e97-bb16-170d2a602f5b
- Data as of
- April 27, 2026
- Last verified
- August 4, 2026
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