ElevenLab’s AI voice-generating technology is expanding to 30 languages

ElevenLabs is a startup that has made headlines for its AI-powered voice-generating platform, which has been used for narrating audiobooks and rising content material accessibility, but additionally misused to make it seem to be public figures are saying horrible issues. The platform is now leaving beta and increasing considerably into extra languages. 

On Monday, ElevenLabs introduced that the platform is popping out of a beta stage that started in January and the startup additionally revealed a brand new foundational multilingual deep-learning mannequin, Eleven Multilingual v2. 

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Eleven Multilingual v2 helps 30 languages and permits folks world wide to make use of ElevenLabs’ text-to-speech and voice-cloning capabilities. 

When customers enter textual content, the mannequin routinely identifies the written language and generates speech with “an unprecedented degree of authenticity”, in keeping with the discharge. 

The speaker’s distinctive voice traits — no matter whether or not it is a artificial or cloned voice — stay the identical throughout all 30 languages, which ensures the identical fashion of speech is used, together with accent.

“ElevenLabs was began with the dream of creating all content material universally accessible in any language and in any voice,” stated Mati Staniszewski, CEO and co-founder of ElevenLabs. 

“With the discharge of Eleven Multilingual v2, we’re one step nearer to creating this dream a actuality and making human-quality AI voices accessible in each dialect.” 

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ElevenLabs recognized some potential use circumstances for this utility, reminiscent of permitting indie authors to make audiobooks, translating online game experiences and audio content material for worldwide audiences, and rising content material accessibility for folks with visible impairments and extra studying wants. 

As listed within the launch, the supported languages embody Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Filipino, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech, Finnish, Romanian, Danish, Bulgarian, Malay, Hungarian, Norwegian, Slovak, Croatian, Basic Arabic, Tamil, English, Polish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Hindi, and Portuguese.