ElevenLabs
American technology company
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| February 2025 | ElevenLabs introduced a new platform enabling authors to create and publish AI-generated audiobooks directly on its Reader app. |
| 2024 | ElevenLabs limited access to its voice cloning feature to paid subscribers to improve user accountability and prevent potential misuse of the technology. |
| July 2024 | ElevenLabs released 'Voice Isolator', a tool that removes background noise from audio. |
| June 2024 | ElevenLabs released the ElevenLabs Reader App on iOS and Android, allowing users to listen to articles, PDFs, and ePubs with AI Voices on their phone. |
| May 2024 | ElevenLabs launched a text-to-music model. |
| January 2024 | During the New Hampshire Democratic primary, AI-generated robocalls mimicking Joe Biden's voice were sent to thousands of residents, discouraging voting. The New Hampshire attorney general's office investigated the incident, with audio experts confirming the calls were created using ElevenLabs technology. |
| January 22 2024 | ElevenLabs raised $80 million in Series B funding, increasing the company's valuation to $1.1 billion. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Sequoia Capital. The company also announced new products including Voice Marketplace, AI Dubbing Studio, and a mobile app. |
| October 2023 | ElevenLabs presented 'AI Dubbing', a tool capable of translating speech into more than 20 languages while preserving the original speaker's voice, emotions, and intonation. |
| September 2023 | ElevenLabs released the 'Projects' tool for creating long-form spoken content. |
| August 2023 | ElevenLabs expanded its voice generation capabilities to 28 languages, using an in-house AI model that automatically detects languages like Korean, Dutch, and Vietnamese, and officially exited its beta phase. |
| July 2023 | ElevenLabs announced 'Projects', a tool for creating long-form spoken content like audiobooks and dialogue segments with contextually-aware synthetic or custom voices. |
| June 2023 | ElevenLabs reached over one million registered users since its launch in January, demonstrating rapid user adoption and market interest. |
| June 2023 | ElevenLabs raised a $19 million Series A funding round at a valuation of about $100 million, with co-leadership from Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. |
| June 20 2023 | ElevenLabs released the AI Speech Classifier, a tool designed to determine if an uploaded audio sample originates from their AI technology, which they claim is the first of its kind and accessible through an API. |
| January 2023 | ElevenLabs launched, introducing an AI voice generation platform with high-quality voice output and fast generation times. |
| January 2023 | ElevenLabs secured a $2 million pre-seed funding round led by Credo Ventures and Concept Ventures, highlighting their potential in AI voice intelligence. |
| January 2023 | The company publicly released its beta platform for AI voice technology. |
| 2022 | ElevenLabs was co-founded by Piotr Dąbkowski and Mati Staniszewski, two Polish entrepreneurs with backgrounds in machine learning and deployment strategy. |
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