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ElevenLabs Eleven v3

ElevenLabs' flagship expressive TTS (Eleven v3). The benchmark for natural-sounding speech and voice cloning across 70+ languages; Flash/Turbo v2.5 cover low-latency use.

Modality
Text-To-Speech
License
Proprietary (Proprietary)
Released
February 2, 2026
Last verified
June 8, 2026
Runs locally
No

Strengths

  • Best-in-class voice naturalness and expressive delivery (v3)
  • Voice cloning from short samples
  • 70+ languages; Flash v2.5 / Turbo v2.5 for real-time/low-latency use

Weaknesses

  • Closed weights — fully API-bound
  • Voice cloning brings consent and ethics considerations

Try it

WhereTypeNotes
ElevenLabs API hosted-api API key required, free tier
ElevenLabs Studio product Web UI

Official sources

Change log

  • — Updated from Multilingual v2 to Eleven v3 (GA 2026-02-02), 70+ languages. Multilingual v2 remains available but is no longer the flagship.
  • — Initial entry.

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