ElevenLabs Eleven v3
Emotive TTS at Scale
ElevenLabs' June 2025 flagship voice model — generates speech that conveys emotion, accents, and conversational pacing. Used to require professional voice actors and a recording studio; with v3, a 5-second sample is enough to clone a voice that sounds natural across paragraphs of varied content. Conversational v3 (Feb 2026) added live agent capability.
Why it matters
Made convincing synthetic voice ubiquitous. Combined with OpenAI's Realtime API and Google's Gemini Live, v3 anchors the transition from text-first to voice-first AI products.
Core Capabilities
Audio
Speech, music, or other audio understanding/synthesis.
Generative
Produces images, video, audio, or other media.
Multimodal
Combines text, vision, and audio in one model.
Context Window
Context window not disclosed.
Availability
API
Available
Product / App
Available
Open Source
Not released
Enterprise
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Pricing Model
Pay per token
Input and output billed separately.
Pay-per-token What it feels like
- Audio model from ElevenLabs — see the linked sources below for benchmark and review coverage
- Audio synthesis or transcription per the published model card
Best use cases
- Audio synthesis / transcription tasks per the model card
- See the model spec and sources block for benchmarked use cases
Tools to try
Not ideal for
- Tasks far outside the modalities listed in this model's spec
- Workflows where a more recent successor in the same family scores higher