Presenter: Shaheen Lavie-Rouse from ElevenLabs
As audio AI models saturate traditional benchmarks like word error rate, what comes next?
ElevenLabs is scaling a learning loop across research, product, and forward deployed engineering to find the new frontier: emotional intelligence and taste — audio that carries the speaker’s intent and conviction. Drawing on ElevenLabs’ work dubbing Reels, this talk shows how deployments revealed a trade-off between preserving a speaker’s own voice and sounding like a native speaker in the target language, and the new cloning strength control built to manage it.
