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Eleven v3 Conversational, our most expressive model for realtime speech, is now generally available.

For developers building voice experiences that respond with real emotion, Eleven v3 Conversational includes audio tags for fine-grained control and support across 70+ languages.

Reliable, high quality, and expressive speech

Eleven v3 Conversational has been optimized specifically for realtime use cases, with consistent quality across streaming generations and a library of 11,000+ voices.

Audio tags give fine-grained control over emotion and delivery

Direct voices to laugh, whisper, act sarcastic, or express curiosity with a broad range of tags.

Global language support

v3 Conversational supports 70+ languages, excelling across German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Hindi.

Availability and pricing

Available now on ElevenAgents and ElevenAPI.

From $0.05/1k chars, decreasing with scale.

Get started → docs

To celebrate the Hosted MCP launch, we're hosting a Reddit AMA, a Discord Live Stage, and a Community Challenge.

Reddit AMA

Drop your questions in this thread. Boris Starkov will come in and respond to your submitted comments.

Discord Live Stage

We will be hosting a Discord Live stage on Tuesday, August 18 with Boris at 9 AM PT. He will cover a technical walkthrough and answer any Q&As. RSVP here: https://discord.gg/elevenlabs?event=1538921475795329105

Community Challenge

Join our community challenge! Build an agent using the new Hosted MCP. See the challenges-and-competitions Discord channel for full details.

How to Enter

1. Post your submission in the 🖼️│showcase Discord channel.
2. Use the tag Challenge 1: MCP to participate.
3. Share on X and quote RT https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2089353435397116280 for extra visibility!

We’ll be awarding top submissions with credits and social spotlights.

You can now manage your voice and chat agents from Claude. The ElevenLabs MCP is now available - sign in once with OAuth, then configure, monitor, and improve your agents in natural language. Install in a few clicks today in the Claude connectors directory.

Manage your agents from Claude

More of the work of managing agents now happens inside AI assistants - and your tools should meet you there. Once connected, Claude gets a curated set of tools for ElevenAgents. We scope that set deliberately rather than wrapping every endpoint in our API, so Claude has a clear set of actions to work with and can combine them to complete full jobs on your behalf.

For example, Claude can:

• Monitor new topics from recent conversations, then analyze and discuss them with you
• Duplicate an agent for a new market, updating the voice and first message along the way
• Compare configurations across your agents and flag inconsistencies
• Estimate an agent's expected LLM usage and cost before a change ships

Sign in once and stay in control

The new ElevenLabs MCP is hosted by ElevenLabs, so there's nothing external to run or maintain. You control what your agents, and your team's Claude sessions, can access. Securely sign in with OAuth, with no need to manage API keys, and revoke the connection at any time from your MCP client or your ElevenLabs account settings.

This is a shift from our original MCP server released in 2025, which you run yourself with your own API key. That server remains available for local developer workflows.

Getting started

Install ElevenLabs in the Claude connectors directory and see our developer docs to learn more.

Procedures let your ElevenAgents agent load task-specific instructions only when they're relevant. The ElevenLabs agents skill now supports them too, including writing, compiling, and publishing procedures.

What's new

• Use triggers to decide when a procedure applies
• Choose free-form or structured procedures
• Keep workflows like refunds or verification separate from your main system prompt
• Draft, compile, and publish them with the agents skill

Getting started

npx skills add elevenlabs/skills

Procedures are currently in Alpha.

• Docs
• Demo video
• X post

ElevenLabs has launched Sounds on ElevenMusic, a free and growing library of AI-generated sounds and loops including vocal chops, drum loops, and bass loops.

Browse the Library

• Free to browse, with previews playable directly in ElevenMusic
• Downloads available to signed-in users

Generate Your Own

• Free and Pro subscribers can describe a sound and generate it
• Output character is adjustable, from a single isolated stem to a fuller layered loop
• Every generated sound is added to the Public Library, so the collection grows as creators use it

Use Cases

• Producers can source loops and stems as starting points for tracks
• Creators can generate specific sounds that don't exist in traditional sample libraries

Browsing, downloading and generating are free with an account. 

Learn more: elevenmusic.io/sounds

Worth clarifying since "omnichannel" gets thrown around loosely — an omnichannel AI agent is a single agent that serves customers across every communication channel from one configuration, one knowledge base, and one set of guardrails.

• Omnichannel vs. multichannel: multichannel just means being present on several channels. Omnichannel means those channels share one brain, and context follows the customer between them
• The strongest architecture routes every channel into one triage layer that hands off to specialized sub-agents — each with scoped tools, its own conversational goal, and the right model for its task
• Voice is the hardest channel to add later, so it's better to build voice-first and treat text channels as additional surfaces, rather than retrofitting speech onto a chat platform

Full breakdown here: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/omnichannel-ai-agent

ElevenMusic has introduced Achievements — 42 milestones that unlock as users create, publish, and connect on the platform, each rewarding an additional daily generation.

Creation Achievements include:

• Publishing your first track
• Creating 10 tracks
• Creating an artist profile

Streak Achievements include:

• Creating on consecutive days, with streak milestones at 7, 11, 22, 55, and 111 days

Community Achievements include:

• Giving your first heart
• Following other artists

Achievements are live now on ElevenMusic web and iOS.

Learn more: https://elevenmusic.io

Calling all creators! We're hosting a live Q&A session on Thursday, August 13 at 8 AM PT to discuss the AI Video Masterclass: Make videos with AI in ElevenCreative.

How it works

1. Watch the video above
2. Drop your most technical or creative questions in this thread
3. Alec will answer your submissions live during the Discord Stage event

We want to hear your feedback and help you optimize your AI video workflows. See you there!

👉 Get Involved

• RSVP to the Discord Event
• Join the Live Stage

Been seeing a lot of questions here about which AI voice tools actually hold up for faceless YouTube channels, so this breakdown might be useful:

• YouTube automation is cutting down a lot of the manual work in video production
• Faceless channels let you build an audience without ever showing your face
• AI video generators speed up the whole pipeline from script to narration
• Picking the right AI voice can make a real difference in engagement

Full writeup here: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/the-5-best-ai-voices-for-youtube-automation-and-faceless-videos

Today we are making Dubbing v2 available via ElevenAPI, enabling developers to embed AI dubbing directly into their own products and workflows.

Dubbing v2 fixes flat audio by conditioning directly on the original performance, not a transcript. It ensures that tone, emotion, and delivery are preserved across 90+ languages. Sync-aware translation logic means that starts and stops align with the original out of the box.

This release also includes new improvements to the Dubbing v2 model:

• Capture regional accents, such as Castilian and Latin American Spanish, with sharper locale accuracy.
• Improved handling of background audio, music, and effects, supporting multiple speakers and complex scenes.

Handle the full pipeline through a single API

Translation, voice cloning, dubbing, and sync all run automatically, minimizing manual intervention.

Developers and companies can now bring their own source transcript and target language translations, or edit the ones the model produces, then regenerate only the segments you change.

Getting started

Install with one command using our skill:

npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill dubbing

The skill sets up everything you need so you can start dubbing after a single prompt.

Availability

Check out our docs: elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-api/guides/cookbooks/dubbing

Dubbing v2 is available now via ElevenAPI. The same model also powers ElevenCreative and ElevenProductions.

Entity detection in Scribe is now more accurate and available in realtime, making it easier to identify and handle sensitive information in both recorded audio and live conversations.

What's New

• Enable entity detection with a single entity_detection parameter
• Detect names, card numbers, medical details, and more than 50 other entity types
• Receive each entity's text, type, and exact character position
• Cover sensitive data across PII, PHI, and PCI categories
• Redact detected information using three built-in formats
• Get 17% more accurate detection with the latest update
• On Scribe v2 Realtime, receive an entities message after every committed transcript

What This Means For You

You can now flag sensitive information during a live call, not just after transcription is complete.

This makes it easier to build safer support workflows, healthcare tools, payment experiences, compliance systems, and other applications that handle sensitive speech data.

We also recorded a full walkthrough covering:

• Tagging a support call with one parameter
• Using all three redaction formats
• Detecting a card number over a live WebSocket connection

Get Started

Watch the walkthrough → https://youtu.be/1rczYAFvg7w

Read the docs → <https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-api/guides/how-to/speech-to-text/batch/entity-detection>

View the announcement on X → https://x.com/ElevenLabsDevs/status/2084686121779315046?s=20

Or let your coding agent handle the setup: npx skills add elevenlabs/skills

Hey everyone,

We’ve been hard at work making ElevenReader faster, more reliable, and even more immersive. Here’s a look at what we’ve shipped over the past month and a preview of what’s coming next.

1. More Reliable Listening

We’ve made significant improvements to the stability and reliability of the player.

This update aims to reduce cases where your listening position is lost between sessions, faster loading, making it easier to pick up exactly where you left off.

2. Faster Offline Downloads

We’re improving the speed of offline downloads, making it quicker to save books, documents, and other readings before you lose your internet connection.

Whether you’re heading on a flight or commuting underground, getting your content offline is now faster and more reliable.

3. New Soundscapes (Beta)

We’ve continued improving Soundscapes and shared beta access to select users for Smart Soundscapes. This feature remains experimental and, in the meantime, we’ve added many new Soundscapes for more immersive listening. We'll gradually improve and expand this release in the coming months ahead.

4. Book Ratings & Reviews

Finding your next great read just got easier.

We’ve added ratings and reviews from popular books around the world, giving you more context before starting a title and making it easier to discover books you’ll love.

5. More Free Books Every Week

We’ve expanded our Free Book of the Week program to include even more popular audiobooks.

Every week you’ll have even more opportunities to discover great stories and listen at no cost.

Coming Soon

We’re already working on the next wave of improvements, including:

• A better way to access all of your favorite readings, from Kindle books and Google Docs to X articles and more.
• A redesigned Search experience to help you find books, documents, and saved content more quickly.
• A new Reading Mode that lets you follow along with the text, keep your place synced, or flip through pages without audio playing.

What Should We Build Next?

Drop your ideas in the comments below. Many of the features we’ve shipped over the past few months started as community requests, and your feedback continues to shape where we go next.

Thanks for being part of the ElevenReader community. We can’t wait to share what’s coming next.

Check out ElevenReader and see the new updates for yourself: elevenreader.io

ElevenLabs has launched Characters, a new creation flow in Audiobooks built around casting your book's characters before you generate.

When you upload a manuscript, Audiobooks detects the characters and proposes a voice for each one. Voices are filtered to match inferred traits from the text — things like age, gender, and tone — and you can preview each voice reading a real line of that character's own dialogue rather than a generic sample.

Every paragraph is assigned to a character rather than a voice directly. If you change a character's voice, every line they speak regenerates across the entire book. The flow also pre-fills a pronunciation dictionary with unusual names, places, and terms from your manuscript so you set each pronunciation once.

The creation process now has three steps before generation:

• Characters — casting and voice selection
• Pronunciation — pre-filled dictionary
• Delivery — break length for paragraph and chapter pacing

Built for indie authors, self-publishers, and publishers who want their manuscript reaching more listeners as audio.

Try Characters in Audiobooks: elevenlabs.io/audiobooks

ElevenLabs has launched References on ElevenMusic, letting users steer their generations with sound. Upload an existing track and Music v2 creates music that matches its style and feel.

References is also live in ElevenCreative and via ElevenAPI, bringing the same reference-guided control to ElevenLabs' creative platform and developer API.

All reference tracks run through a copyright check to protect artists' rights.

Use Cases

• Musicians shaping a sound
• Teams matching a brand's sonic identity
• Developers building music tools that need real creative precision

Try References on ElevenMusic, ElevenCreative, and via ElevenAPI: elevenmusic.io

ElevenMusic now supports Vocals making it possible to generate original songs with your own voice or voices from the Vocal Library.

Use your own voice

Upload a voice recording and generate an original song in seconds using our Voice to Song tool. Or, create a reusable Vocal by uploading a selection of your existing tracks. Music v2 learns your vocal tone, texture, and style for consistent generations when that vocal is subsequently selected.

Or get started quickly with the Vocal Library

Choose from a growing collection of Vocals and generate songs with a consistent voice, fast.

Styles with Music v2

Styles are now compatible with Music v2.

• Train your own Style from your music.
• Choose a Style from the library.
• Combine Styles with Vocals for consistent sound and vocals across every generation.

All uploaded content is screened for copyright compliance to help protect artists' rights.

Learn more: elevenmusic.io