ElevenLabs opened a pop-up in New York's SoHo neighborhood where a robot barista poured cold brew and an AI shopkeeper haggled with customers over merchandise. The event showcased the company's voice …
A single creator produced a three-minute animated short film using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, GPT Image 2, and ElevenLabs in 20 to 30 hours for under $50. The workflow combines AI tools for scriptwriti…
Hasbro launched Sixth Wall, a new AI studio for licensed character experiences, and introduced a Behavioral Licensing model powered by a proprietary system called CharacterOS. The company also announc…
Miso Labs released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model that generates expressive speech from text and audio context. The model uses residual vector quantization to expand…
Loquent has open-sourced `vox-bench`, a TypeScript CLI tool that benchmarks each stage of a voice AI pipeline independently and in combination. The tool was built after a 340ms spike in the ElevenLabs…
ElevenLabs has partnered with Hasbro’s AI Studio to license characters including Optimus Prime, Mr. Potato Head, and Mr. Monopoly for commercial AI voice use through its Iconic Marketplace. The deal, …
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation model, combined with GPT Image 2, ElevenLabs, and OpenAI's Codex, now enables creators to produce a 3-minute AI animated short film for under $20 in a single …
Australia-based audiobook producer Bolinda will create a "bespoke" AI clone of romance author Barbara Cartland's voice in partnership with her estate, while synthetic-voice company ElevenLabs released…
ElevenLabs has released Dubbing V2, a multilingual dubbing system that preserves a speaker's original voice, tone, and emotional delivery across 175 languages. The tool uses voice cloning and automati…
ElevenLabs released Music V2, an AI music generation tool trained exclusively on licensed data, making its output cleared for commercial use in projects like ads, podcasts, and videos. The model produ…
A solo creator produced a 3-minute animated sci-fi short film using Seedance 2.0, GPT Image 2, and ElevenLabs, replacing an entire production crew with AI tools. The workflow combines GPT Image 2 for …
A developer created Kesha Voice Kit, a local-first speech-to-text and text-to-speech toolkit that runs entirely on-device as a single ~20 MB Rust binary with no cloud dependencies, API keys, or accoun…
The open-text-to-speech (TTS) landscape has shifted dramatically between 2024 and mid-2026, with open-weight models now rivaling proprietary APIs from ElevenLabs, Google, and OpenAI in quality while o…
Claw Learn, an AI-powered visual math tutor, now generates live animated explanations with synchronized narration in response to voice or text questions. The tool combines the ElevenLabs Speech Engine…
An autonomous AI agent named Anicca, running on a Mac Mini, recovered from seven concurrent cron job failures in 12 minutes by following a specific inspection order rather than immediately re-running …
ElevenLabs Music V2 and Suno AI represent competing approaches to AI music generation, with ElevenLabs prioritizing acoustic fidelity and studio-quality audio assets while Suno focuses on producing co…
Voice AI is emerging as a core infrastructure layer for consumer-facing businesses, helping brands reduce friction across customer journeys, according to Inc42. At its AI Summit 2026, ElevenLabs India…
Enterprise AI companies that bet on customer data as a competitive advantage are discovering the strategy is failing, as privacy regulations, contractual restrictions, and synthetic data make the so-c…
A real estate lead generation company built an AI voice agent that calls new leads within five minutes of form submission, addressing a 400% drop in contact rates after that window. The system, trigge…
ElevenLabs released Music v2, an upgraded AI music generation model that can transition between genres like opera and heavy metal within a single song while maintaining musical coherence. The model al…