r/ElevenLabs

This was my very first video project with Higgsfield. For the voice, I used ElevenLabs to clone my own voice so it sounded just like me. Then, I uploaded the audio file and everything else to Higgsfield via Cloud AI to set up the project.
The first big issue was that the audio wasn't in sync because the voice quality from "Seedance 2.0" wasn't quite right. Because of that, I had to re-sync my custom voice.
That little fix cost me a total of 400 tokens on Higgsfield, but hey, you live and you learn!

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

I work at Autonomous, where we make Lamp, a physical AI assistant that sees, talks and moves. We've been experimenting with almost every part of her, from how she moves to how she sounds, and lately that's meant testing Eleven v4 as her voice.

What stood out wasn't the tone so much as the timing. She hesitates, trails off halfway through a word, and picks back up. In a body that can also look down while she does it, that lands very differently than it does in a pair of headphones.

The voice also has to fit how a conversation with her works. She turns to face you before she says anything, and you can cut her off mid-sentence and she'll stop and listen. So the voice has to start and stop cleanly, not just sound good.

The open question for us is speed versus expression in a live conversation. If you've used v4 for a live character rather than narration, how are you handling that?