Text-to-speech and voice AI platform for creating realistic voices, voice cloning, and building voice agents. Powers AI receptionists, audiobooks, dubbing, and voice-enabled applications.
Content creators needing voiceovers, developers building voice agents, businesses wanting AI phone systems
The quality benchmark for AI voice — competitors are measured against it. Pricing is the #1 blocker for scaling: unit economics break down quickly for high-volume use cases. For low-to-medium volume projects, it's the clear winner. For scale, evaluate OpenAI TTS or self-hosted alternatives.
Simple text-to-speech needs (free options exist), those uncomfortable with voice cloning ethics
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I use ElevenLabs. It’s not free to start. You need about $10/month for the subscription to the platform.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: AI voice cloning for passive income
I ran channels with ElevenLabs voices, until I realized the plan I needed cost over $1300. That’s insane.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Creating YouTube content with TTS voices
People who interacted with it thought it was a real human. Clients casually complimented 'her' voice.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Automate lead generation and internal HR workflows
legitimately good voiceovers. Use it for video narration.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: voiceovers for video narration
Creates voiceover with ElevenLabs
Reddit • Developer/Solo Founder • Use case: Generate affordable UGC marketing videos with AI actors
After testing multiple tools, one thing became clear - ElevenLabs is the best for text-to-speech
Reddit • Developer/Solo Founder • Use case: Add audio/voice to SaaS platform
paying +$1000/month for synthetic voiceovers... felt dumb. I was basically copy-pasting scripts into a glorified MP3 exporter.
Reddit • Developer/Solo Founder • Use case: High-cost voiceovers for YouTube channel content.
Multiple WhatsApp SaaS bots — AI transcription (Whisper), summarization (GPT), image generation (Stable Diffusion), voice synthesis (ElevenLabs).
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Voice synthesis for WhatsApp SaaS bots
The lagging is due to ElevenLabs API calls and slower internet at home using hotspot.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Text-to-speech for a voice AI agent
ElevenLabs for text-to-speech with two distinct voice characters.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Used for text-to-speech to create realistic audio with distinct character voices.
CLI voice changer with cloned Overwatch voices on ElevenLabs.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Creating a CLI voice changer with cloned Overwatch voices
The barge-in teardown is the part most people underestimate. It's not just canceling LLM + TTS — if you have downstream automation... you need to handle the race condition.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Text-to-speech (TTS) for voice agents
Our avatar was a really hard one to handle, but I think it's still really good.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Used to create or power the voice avatar for the interview.
I love Descript. Their "convert to studio quality" feature is better than Adobe's and ElevenLabs, in my experience.
Hacker News • Content Creator • Use case: Audio quality enhancement
Giants like ElevenLabs make good sounding TTS but it's not quite human yet and the improvements get less and less each iteration.
Hacker News • Developer • Use case: Text-to-speech generation
I use ElevenLabs exclusively for speech-to-speech for vtubing as my AI character. They're kind of the only game in town for doing super high quality speech-to-speech.
Hacker News • Content Creator/VTuber • Use case: Real-time speech-to-speech voice transformation for vtubing character
It's not as good as elevenlabs and probably not worth most listeners time. I would wait a year or so for further improvements.
Hacker News • Developer • Use case: Comparing competitor voice synthesis quality to ElevenLabs
The vocal phrasing. Not just the melody, but the micro-timing, breath placement, and emotional inflection. Quality: Comparable to demo-level indie recordings
Hacker News • Developer • Use case: Creating promotional music with vocals for open-source framework
It's more like 5x... It starts getting more competitive when you are at the highest tier at ElevenLabs ($1320/month), but I'm not going to invest the time.
Hacker News • Developer • Use case: Comparing pricing between ElevenLabs and OpenAI for TTS
I tried this by getting Claude to write the text (based on the pdf) and then putting that into elevenlabs for audio (quite expensive) and for what it's worth that worked quite great.
Hacker News • Developer • Use case: Converting PDF books to audio with verbatim reading and descriptions
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