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Eleven v4 (and v4 Turbo)

ElevenLabs · 28 September 2026

Eleven v4 is ElevenLabs' most emotive TTS: inline delivery tags, consistent multi-speaker dialogue, 90+ languages and a ~150 ms Turbo variant.

New architecture with 10-second instant voice clones, cross-language voices that keep identity but adopt native accent, and a #1 Artificial Analysis ranking (company-cited) with ~75% blind-test preference.

Date
Monday, 28 September 2026
Lab
ElevenLabs
Kind
model
Access
closed API

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
Median time to first speech (v4 Turbo)~150 ms
company-stated
company

Ranking and blind-test claims are ElevenLabs' own. ElevenLabs raised at a $22B valuation via a $300M employee tender two days later (2026-09-30).

Sources

  1. elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v4

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