ElevenLabs is an AI speech synthesis company: type text in, and its models read it back in a natural-sounding voice, in one of 70-plus languages, including Georgian. It also lets you clone a real voice from a short recording, dub video into other languages, and build voice-driven chat agents. It is one of the most widely used tools behind AI-narrated videos, audiobooks, and podcasts.
What ElevenLabs does
ElevenLabs was founded in 2022 by Piotr Dąbkowski and Mati Staniszewski, two Polish engineers who said they were frustrated by badly dubbed foreign films. The company’s core product is text-to-speech: its newest model, Eleven v3, generates expressive, emotionally varied speech in more than 70 languages, while an older Multilingual v2 model favors stability across 29 languages. Beyond reading text aloud, the platform offers:
- Voice cloning — recreating a specific person’s voice from a short sample, for narration or content in their own “voice.”
- Dubbing Studio — translating and re-voicing video or podcast audio into other languages while roughly preserving timing and tone.
- Conversational agents — voice bots that can hold a spoken conversation, used for things like phone support or in-app assistants.
- Speech-to-text (Scribe) — transcribing audio back into text.
- Eleven Music — an AI music generator the company added in 2025.
How to get started
Creating your first AI voiceover takes a few minutes. After you sign up for a free account, the basic flow is:
- Open the Text to Speech tool and paste or type the text you want spoken.
- Pick a voice from the library, or design a new one, matching the language and tone you need.
- Adjust settings like stability and expressiveness if the default reading sounds off.
- Generate the audio, listen back, and download it as an MP3 once you’re happy with it.
Cloning your own voice or someone else’s (with their consent) requires uploading a short recording and verifying you have the right to use it — ElevenLabs runs checks specifically to limit unauthorized voice cloning.
What it costs
As of August 2026, per ElevenLabs’ pricing page, the free tier gives 10,000 credits a month — enough for short projects — with access to text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and limited voice cloning tools. Paid plans start at the Starter tier ($6/month), which adds a commercial license and instant voice cloning; Creator ($22/month) adds professional voice cloning and a larger credit pool; higher tiers (Pro, Scale, Business) scale up audio quality, credits, and team seats, up to custom Enterprise pricing. Credits are consumed per character generated, so cost scales with how much audio you actually produce.
Tips and what to watch for
The same realism that makes ElevenLabs useful for narration also makes voice cloning a misuse risk: the tool has been linked to hoax robocalls and impersonation attempts, which is why platforms increasingly pair realistic AI voice generation with detection and consent safeguards, similar to the debate around deepfakes more broadly. Practical tips: shorter, punctuation-rich sentences read more naturally than long run-ons; emotional or dramatic delivery works best on the Eleven v3 model; and it’s worth previewing a paragraph before generating an entire audiobook, since credits are non-refundable once spent.
Why it matters for Georgia
ElevenLabs’ Eleven v3 model explicitly supports Georgian for both text-to-speech and speech-to-text, which is unusual among AI voice tools — most stop at a handful of major world languages. That makes it directly usable for Georgian-language voiceovers, audiobooks, customer-service bots, or dubbing local content, without waiting for a Georgian-specific product to arrive.