ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs’ MCP server now lets supported assistants generate speech, music, images, and video. It also exposes transcription, dubbing, sound effects, and tools for refining generated work.

ElevenLabs launched Music v2 on ElevenAPI with track generation, reference matching, inpainting, and multilingual output. It gives developers a priced API for commercial music creation and section-level editing.

Artificial Analysis launched AA-WER Streaming to benchmark streaming speech-to-text models on accuracy and latency for voice agents. The first leaderboard puts Cartesia Ink-2 and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 on the price-latency frontier, so teams should compare cost against latency before choosing a model.

ElevenLabs launched Speech Engine, a layer that adds transcription, speech synthesis, turn-taking, and interruption handling on top of an existing chat agent. The release pairs SDKs, one-command setup, and 8¢-per-minute pricing for production voice agents.

ElevenLabs lowered self-serve pricing for ElevenAPI and ElevenAgents and added pay-as-you-go billing. The biggest listed drops are to $0.05 per 1,000 tokens for Flash TTS, $0.22 for Scribe v2 speech-to-text, and $0.08 per minute for agent calls.

ElevenLabs launched Agent Templates, a library of pre-configured conversational agents for support, education, sales, and internal enablement. That shortens the setup path for teams that want to deploy voice or chat agents without starting from a blank flow.

ElevenLabs added on-prem and on-device deployment options alongside its existing VPC and cloud paths for the voice stack. The rollout gives government, automotive, and edge teams more data-boundary choices, with VPC available now and the new modes in early access.

Voxtral TTS uses separate semantic and acoustic token models, a 2.14 kbps codec, and 3-25 second reference audio for cloning across nine languages. Try it if you want a hybrid speech pipeline with more control and faster acoustic synthesis than all-autoregressive generation.