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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.
Details
Participants provide approximately 30 minutes of audio from existing recordings (videos, voice notes, or other prior recordings). ElevenLabs' AI creates a digital voice model that can be used with assistive communication devices, allowing people to communicate in their own voice rather than a generic synthesized voice. In March 2026, ElevenLabs pledged $1 billion in free voice restoration technology to support 1 million people. As of that date, the program had supported 7,000 individuals in partnership with 780 organizations across 49 countries.
Products affected
1 Million VoicesElevenLabs Voice Cloning
Sources & Evidence
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Trace Foundation. (2026). ElevenLabs: 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 (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0a01c404-6c1c-421e-885d-48128a72705a. Accessed October 5, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0a01c404-6c1c-421e-885d-48128a72705a
- Data as of
- April 22, 2026
- Last verified
- August 4, 2026
Other practices by ElevenLabs
Creative GenElevenLabs 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.Creative GenElevenLabs 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.Creative GenElevenLabs 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.
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