ElevenLabs is the leading AI voice platform — ultra-realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, sound effects, speech-to-text, and conversational voice agents.
Last verified · 2026-09-30 · by Moe Ameen
ElevenLabs is the AI voice company founded in 2022 by Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski, headquartered in New York and London. Its foundation is text-to-speech: it turns written text into natural, expressive speech in a chosen voice across dozens of languages, with quality that helped make it the default name in AI voice. It reached a $22 billion valuation in September 2026, reflecting how widely its voice technology is now used.
Around the core TTS engine sits a full audio suite. Voice cloning comes in two forms — Instant Voice Cloning from a short sample and Professional Voice Cloning trained on more audio for higher fidelity. A dubbing tool translates and re-voices an existing video's audio into other languages, keeping the original delivery's feel. There's an AI sound-effects generator, the Scribe speech-to-text model for transcription, the Eleven Music song generator, and ElevenAgents for building conversational voice agents. Everything is available through a well-documented API, which is why so many products build voice on ElevenLabs rather than rolling their own.
For a creator, the important framing is what ElevenLabs is and isn't. It is an exceptional audio generator: give it text and it gives you voice; give it a video's audio and it gives you a dub. It does not make video, captions, images, or posts, and it publishes to no platform. That boundary is exactly where a content engine takes over. Treat plan gating and feature availability as a snapshot and confirm current details on elevenlabs.io.
The most underrated thing ElevenLabs does isn't a single voiceover — it's dubbing, and that's where pairing it with [Kompozy](/) turns into a genuine unfair advantage. ElevenLabs can take one video's audio and re-voice it into a dozen languages; what it can't do is rebuild the actual videos, caption them, size them per feed, and publish the set. Kompozy does exactly that. Dub your source in ElevenLabs into, say, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German, then drop each track into Kompozy and build a language variant of the same [Clipped Short](/glossary/clipped-short), [Listicle Video](/glossary/output-buckets), or [Persona Short](/glossary/persona-shorts) — word-synced captions burned in, each cut reframed to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9. One recording becomes a multi-language content set instead of a pile of orphaned audio files.
It works just as cleanly for a single-language voiceover: generate your narration in ElevenLabs, and Kompozy scores net-new video around it while the [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) keeps the on-screen copy in your voice. From there the same idea fans into a carousel, quote graphics, photo posts, a blog, and a newsletter, and [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot) schedules the whole batch across the eight social platforms plus blog and email behind a per-post review gate. ElevenLabs produces the voice — in one language or twelve; Kompozy produces and ships the content that voice rides on.
ElevenLabs is an AI voice company founded in 2022, best known for ultra-realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning. Its suite also includes a dubbing tool, an AI sound-effects generator, the Scribe speech-to-text model, the Eleven Music generator, and ElevenAgents voice agents, all available through an API. It reached a $22 billion valuation in September 2026.
Commercial rights depend on your plan and the feature — the free tier typically lacks commercial rights and professional cloning, while paid tiers unlock more. Terms also vary for cloning, dubbing, and music. Confirm the current commercial terms for your exact use on elevenlabs.io before publishing.
Export the voiceover or dub and bring it into Kompozy, which scores net-new video around it — Persona Shorts, Clipped Shorts, Listicle or Naturalistic Video — burns in word-synced captions, reframes per feed, and publishes across the eight social platforms plus blog and email. ElevenLabs makes the voice; Kompozy makes and ships the content it rides on.
ElevenLabs supports text-to-speech and dubbing across dozens of languages, with coverage varying by model and feature. Check elevenlabs.io for the current list and which voices support which languages.
There is a limited free tier, but ElevenLabs runs on credit-based plans and the free tier generally lacks commercial rights and professional voice cloning, so serious use requires a paid plan. Check elevenlabs.io/pricing for current limits.