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ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 speech models

By The Likely · Updated Sep 28, 5:24 PM ET · Drawn from 3 sources · Written by AI, checked against sources

On September 28, 2026, ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, supporting over 90 languages. Artificial Analysis's Provider Voice Arena placed Eleven v4 at number one with an Elo score of 1,319 across 1,674 samples.

Why it mattersEleven v4 took first place over Cartesia Sonic 3.6 while v4 Turbo delivers a median time to first speech of about 150 milliseconds.

Which text-to-speech AI will rank highest this week? ElevenLabs leadsVery likely88%▲ from 2% yesterday

How we got here

  1. ElevenLabs introduced Eleven v3 in alpha with advanced audio tags, dialogue mode, and support for over seventy languages. Elevenlabs
  2. ElevenLabs announced v4 and v4 Turbo. Techcrunch
  3. Eleven v4 reached the top position with an Elo score of 1,319, ahead of Cartesia Sonic 3.6. Ai

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