ElevenLabs offers speech synthesis, speech recognition, and a conversational-agent platform through one API. The product lines are ElevenAPI for developers, ElevenAgents for deploying voice agents, and ElevenCreative for content production, and the underlying models cover text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning and design, dubbing, music, and sound effects.
Text-to-speech models are chosen per request. Eleven v3 targets expressive delivery across 70+ languages with a 5,000-character limit, and a v3 Conversational variant streams at about 280 ms for agents. Eleven Multilingual v2 covers 29 languages with a 10,000-character limit. Eleven Flash v2.5 covers 32 languages, allows 40,000 characters, and returns audio at about 75 ms at half the per-character price. Streaming and WebSocket endpoints can return word-level timestamps for aligning audio with text.
Speech-to-text runs on Scribe v2, which transcribes 90+ languages with speaker diarization for up to 32 speakers, word-level timestamps, and detection of 65 entity types; Scribe v2 Realtime streams at about 150 ms. Official Python and TypeScript SDKs wrap the REST and WebSocket APIs, and usage is metered in credits (one credit per input character for TTS) that reset monthly.
Features
- Text-to-speech models: Eleven v3, v3 Conversational, Multilingual v2, and Flash v2.5 with different language counts, character limits, and latencies
- Streaming with timestamps: WebSocket synthesis that returns word-level timing alongside audio
- Speech-to-text: Scribe v2 for files and Scribe v2 Realtime for live audio in 90+ languages
- Diarization and entities: up to 32 speakers and 65 entity types per transcript
- Voice cloning and design: create voices from samples or from a description
- Dubbing: translate audio and video while keeping the speaker's voice
- Forced alignment: map an existing transcript onto its audio
- Music and sound effects: generative audio beyond speech
- ElevenAgents: hosted platform for building and deploying conversational voice agents
- SDKs: official Python and TypeScript clients
