What is ElevenLabs and what is it used for?
ElevenLabs is an AI audio platform that turns text into lifelike speech, clones voices, dubs videos into other languages and transcribes audio. It serves content creators, production companies and businesses that need narration, dubbing or voice agents without booking a studio.
There are two ways in. The web app, where you generate narration, build long-form audio projects or dub a video. And the API, which developers use to put voice inside apps and contact centers.
Common uses:
- narration for training videos, courses and ads;
- dubbing content into 90+ languages while keeping each speaker's voice;
- transcribing meetings and interviews with speaker labels;
- voice agents that answer calls and hold real-time conversations.
Text-to-speech models differ in language coverage and latency. Multilingual v2 covers 29 languages, and Eleven v3 covers more than 70. Billing runs on monthly credits shared across the account's products; with Multilingual v2, each text character uses 1 credit.






