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To celebrate the launch of Eleven v4 in ElevenReader, we are hosting a community sweepstakes. Submit your favorite or most expressive passage read aloud by the app.

Entries are open from now through 11:00 a.m. PT on Friday, October 16, 2026.

How to enter

Post a video with audio, recorded or captured from the ElevenReader app, showing your passage being read aloud. Post it in this /r/ElevenLabs subreddit with the Challenge flair and include #sweepstakes somewhere in the post so it's clearly marked as an entry.

One rule to keep in mind

Your passage can be no more than 100 words from any book or other published work. Entries over 100 words won't qualify.

Prizes

Ten winners each receive an ElevenReader Ultra subscription for themselves or a friend: one 12-month, one 6-month, one 3-month, and seven 1-month.

Other ways to enter

• Discord: join the server (https://elevenlabs.io/v/discord) and post in the #showcase forum with the "Challenge 4: Reader" tag. Include #sweepstakes somewhere in the post so it's clearly marked as an entry.
• X: follow @elevenreader and post your video tagging @elevenreader, with your post set to public. Include #sweepstakes somewhere in the post so it's clearly marked as an entry.

Each qualifying post is one entry, so you can enter on more than one platform. Each person may submit up to five entry posts per method of entry during the sweepstakes period.

See the full official rules for eligibility: https://elevenreader.io/contest-sweepstakes-terms

Attach a plain-language instruction to a Scribe v2 or Scribe v2 Realtime request. Once the audio is transcribed, the instruction is applied and the edited transcript comes back alongside the original.

You can expand abbreviations on first use, redact sensitive words, tag every sentence with its sentiment, or reformat the transcript as a bulleted list.

An instruction can combine several edits, up to 2,000 characters.

This requires an extra parameter: transcriptEdit.

The edited transcript is returned in editedTranscript. The original text and word timestamps are still available and unchanged.

With Scribe v2 Realtime, you pass the instruction once when the connection opens, then each committed transcript is followed by an edited_transcript event.

Partial transcripts are never edited.

Transcript editing is available now at 30% on top of the base transcription cost, billed for a minimum of 10 seconds of audio per request.

Get started in the docs:

View the X thread:

Generate images and videos with the same ElevenLabs API you use for speech. We support 18 models, including Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2.5, and Nano Banana Pro.

Each generation runs in the background using Flows.

You submit a prompt with the flows image.create or video.create and get an ID back right away. To get the results you can set up a webhook to be notified when it's done or you can poll for the result manually.

The Image & Video API is available today on Pro plans and above.

Generations cost the same credits as in the ElevenLabs app, and failed generations aren't charged.

• Get started with the quickstart
• View the X thread
• Watch the YouTube Video

We're introducing Music v2.5, our best music model yet, live now in ElevenMusic. It's now the default model for both prompted and reference generation, replacing Music v2 as the standard experience for new tracks. Music v2 isn't going anywhere, Music v2.5 just becomes the new default.

Music v2.5 delivers richer melodies, more natural-sounding instruments, and greater depth.

Alongside the model update, ElevenMusic is changing what users can do with their music.

Download your tracks

A track you're proud of deserves to be yours, in every sense. Downloads gives you a straightforward way to keep a copy of every track you finish.

• Free Plan users get five lossless downloads a day.
• Pro Plan users get 400 lossless downloads a month.

Commercial rights on every plan

ElevenMusic is cleared for commercial use on every plan, including Free.* Rights attach the moment you create a track and are not affected by plan changes.

^(*Commercial rights vary by subscription tier. See Terms for details.(https://elevenmusic.io/terms-of-use\))

Protecting the original creator

Downloads are blocked on tracks that reference other artists' songs.

Start creating with Music v2.5 today: https://elevenmusic.io/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=music_v25_202609

11 founders from our Startup Grants program will pitch their companies and what they've built with ElevenLabs.

The top three will win cash prizes of up to $33K and go on to present at our 11/11 Summit in New York.

Applications open today until Oct 7th and we'll select the top 11 to pitch at our virtual demo day with the top 3 getting cash prizes of up to $33k + the opportunity to present at the 11/11 Summit!

More info: https://demoday.elevenlabs.io/

ElevenLabs has launched Stem Splitting on ElevenMusic, letting users separate any track into its individual components. Tracks generated on ElevenMusic and tracks uploaded from elsewhere are both supported.

A track can be split into vocals, drums, bass, and other stems, which can then be used individually. Editing a single part without touching the rest, remixing around an isolated vocal, pulling an instrumental, or building a new arrangement from the parts of an existing one.

Free accounts include 5 stem splits per month. Pro accounts include unlimited splits. All uploads run through copyright checks.

Learn more: https://elevenmusic.io?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stem_splitting_202609

Hey everyone,

We are excited to launch our new monthly livestream series! Join our developer team to get a first look at everything shipped at ElevenLabs this past month.

When: Friday, September 4th at 8:00 AM PT Where: Live on Discord

What to expect:

• What's new at ElevenLabs, from Tadas
• Live Q&A segment

We look forward to seeing you there!

RSVP → https://discord.com/events/1066739690436313158/1544746027976892516

Hey everyone,

We are excited to launch our new monthly livestream series! Join our developer team to get a first look at everything shipped at ElevenLabs this past month.

When: Friday, September 4th at 8:00 AM PT Where: Live on Discord

What to expect:

• What's new at ElevenLabs, from Tadas
• Live Q&A segment

We look forward to seeing you there!

RSVP → https://discord.com/events/1066739690436313158/1544746027976892516

Today we are releasing ElevenLabs CLI v1, which brings the entire ElevenLabs API into the terminal.

Coding agents and developers can now manage their ElevenLabs workflows directly, with well-documented commands, built-in agent skills, structured JSON that is easy to parse, and support for dry runs to preview any operation.

• Manage agents as code: pull every agent in your workspace into local config files, edit them like the rest of your codebase, preview the exact changes, and push to production.
• Access the whole platform: Text to Speech, Speech to Text, dubbing, and music generation are all available as commands.
• Built for agents: skills (elevenlabs generate-skills) teach your coding agent every command, so you can describe what you want and it builds, tests, and ships within the rules you define.

Agents as code

The CLI also lets you manage ElevenAgents as code. Your agents become config files alongside the rest of your codebase, so every change gets a diff, a review, and a version history before it reaches production.

Errors that fit the caller

The CLI detects whether a person or an agent is running a command. Developers get a readable error with a hint, while your coding agents get the same error as parseable JSON.

MCP or CLI

Your agents can access ElevenLabs in two ways, depending on where they work. With MCP, Claude can pull recent conversations, find where callers drop off, and rewrite the greeting so fewer callers hang up. With the CLI, agents can script that same workflow across every voice agent in your fleet.

Get started

npm install -g @elevenlabs/cli

Learn more: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/operate/cli

ElevenLabs has launched Muse, a conversational co-writer inside ElevenMusic designed to guide users from first idea to finished track.

Rather than starting from a blank prompt, Muse begins with a conversation, asking about mood, platform, structure, and style before generating, so the first take matches the brief.

From there, editing happens in plain language: instructions like "regenerate the bridge," "make the intro softer," or "pull back the drums from 1:10–1:30" are applied to the exact section referenced.

Users remain in control of every change, and it's possible to take over manually at any point, make changes directly, then continue working with Muse.

Muse is available now on ElevenMusic.

Learn more: elevenmusic.io

We just launched a new way to listen in ElevenReader: open your favorite websites and turn the content you already have access to into natural-sounding audio.

That includes Kindle eBooks, Google Docs, Substack, X articles, web novels, and more, including content on sites that require you to sign in.

This is especially useful if you want to multitask, give your eyes a break, listen instead of read, or make written content more accessible.

How it works:

1. Download and open ElevenReader. It's free for up to 10 hours of listening per month — roughly 400 pages of content
2. Tap "+" → "Open a webpage." Browse to the site you want to listen to, including sites where you need to sign in to access your content
3. Open your content and press play. Choose from 1,000+ natural-sounding voices, adjust the playback speed, and start listening

Here's a quick demo using a Kindle eBook in the browser.

One important note: this is for your private access and listening. The content you open this way isn't imported into ElevenReader.

Give it a try and let us know what you think — we'd especially love to hear which sites you're using it with.

ElevenLabs has launched Composer in ElevenMusic, enabling users to build and edit a composition section by section. Tracks can start from a text prompt, an uploaded audio reference, original lyrics, or a blank page, and are then shaped piece by piece. So you can regenerate one section while leaving the rest of the track untouched.

Edit Sections Independently

• Rewrite the lyrics of verse two, slow the bridge down, or change the key of the chorus
• Refine the style, tempo, energy, or instrumentation of an individual section without affecting the rest of the composition
• Regenerate only the section being worked on, so a change to the bridge never costs a verse that already works

Write Your Own Lyrics

• Bring original words to any section and edit them at any time
• Regenerate just that section to hear the new lines sung

Compare Takes Side by Side

• Generate multiple versions of a verse or chorus
• Audition them against each other before committing to a favorite

Reshape the Song

• Change section durations, key, and tempo
• Reorder the structure entirely, swap the bridge, double the chorus, add an outro

Composer is live now in ElevenMusic.

Learn more: elevenmusic.io/compositions

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