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The voice AI company is entering a crowded workplace productivity category with an early-access desktop app built around privacy and its new Scribe v3 model
ElevenLabs built its name on making machines talk. Now it wants them to listen, take notes and tell you what you promised to do on Thursday.
The voice AI company introduced ElevenAI, an experimental desktop app that rolls meeting note-taking, real-time dictation and agent integration into one tool. It debuted on November 11, 2026, at the company’s Summit NYC in New York, held at Lincoln Center.
There is a catch for the impatient. ElevenAI is still in preview, so users can’t simply download it. They need to sign up for early access, which is free during this phase and opened the same day as the announcement.
What ElevenAI actually does #
The dictation side runs on Scribe v3, the speech-to-text model ElevenLabs recently released. Users talk, and the app converts their speech into text as they go.
The meeting side covers transcription, speaker identification, automated summaries and the generation of action items. Put simply, it records who said what, condenses the hour into something readable, and lists the follow-ups people would otherwise forget.
Then there is the agent layer. ElevenAI connects to ElevenAgents, the company’s agent platform, to provide contextual assistance. That means the app is meant to do more than archive a conversation. It is supposed to help act on it.
ElevenLabs is pitching the product as an “AI teammate” for employees. That label separates it from ElevenAgents’ customer-facing work, where AI agents interact with a business’s clients rather than its own staff.
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Privacy is the headline feature, sort of #
ElevenAI includes built-in consent mechanisms, such as on-screen notices during video calls, with Google Meet a particular focus.
Storage is the other half of the privacy pitch. Transcripts are kept locally on Mac devices, and the app does not retain audio. The company also points to its SOC 2 and ISO certifications, the security standards enterprise procurement teams like to see before they sign anything.
A crowded room, getting more crowded #
ElevenLabs is not walking into an empty market. In recent months, Fireflies, Wispr Flow and Granola have each rolled out competing features in dictation and meeting notes.
Through 2026, these products have been converging. Dictation tools have added meeting features, meeting tools have added dictation, and everyone has added some flavor of AI assistant.
The launch was one piece of a busier summit. ElevenLabs also previewed an Interaction Engine and flagged Memory and Routines features that are still on the way. On the business side, ElevenLabs said its partner program now includes more than 550 firms across 44 countries. It also announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA.
What this means for ElevenLabs and its rivals #
The company carries a reported valuation of $22 billion. ElevenAI is a bet that voice infrastructure can climb up the stack into a product employees open every morning. If it works, ElevenLabs gains direct relationships with users instead of serving mainly as the engine inside other companies’ products.
For Fireflies, Wispr Flow and Granola, the threat is less about any single feature and more about distribution. ElevenLabs already has a global partner network of more than 550 firms and a high-profile relationship with NVIDIA. There are real limits to watch. The app is labeled experimental, access is gated behind a signup, and local storage is described for Mac devices. Teams that need broad platform coverage or a finished product may wait for a wider rollout before switching.
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