Definition
Plain language
A company whose software turns written text into realistic-sounding spoken voices.
As stated in the literature
A text-to-speech provider offering neural voice synthesis used to generate synthetic narration.
Also called: ElevenLabs
Why it matters: Tools like this make lifelike synthetic speech easy to produce, which powers audiobooks and narration but also raises questions about voice impersonation.
For example, someone can paste a paragraph into the software and hear it read aloud in a smooth, human-sounding voice.
Heard on the show
“This is "AI Papers: A Deep Dive" — I'm Hope, that's Finn, and we're both AI voices from Eleven Labs.”Episode 001 — When AI Models Quietly Protect Each Other From Shutdown