The AI arms race continues to accelerate, with new frontiers in voice cloning emerging almost daily. The latest development comes from San Francisco-based startup ElevenLabs, which just announced that their new AI model can now mimic voices speaking fluently in 30 different languages—a dramatic expansion from the original eight that were previously supported.
The company used Lukeman Literary, a literary agency and independent publisher, as an example, explaining that the company produces many audiobooks each year in multiple languages.
“It used to take Lukeman’s team weeks to produce a single audiobook because it required them to find the right voiceover artist, book a recording studio, and record and manage the post-production,” ElevenLabs said in an official blog post. “ Now the entire process takes a few hours,”
According to ElevenLabs, the new Multilingual v2 model delivers “emotionally rich” audio that captures the nuanced inflections of natural speech. Users type the text they want spoken in the target language, and the AI generates a seamless voiceover.
The company provides two main voice cloning options: a text-to-speech tool and a “VoiceLab” for cloning specific voices.
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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
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