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“You have a movie where there is one voice that will speak over all the scenes and all the voices to deliver the content in the Polish language. As you can imagine, it’s a pretty bad experience,” noted ElevenLabs cofounder Mati Staniszewski, who experienced this problem alongside his best friend and cofounder, Piotr Dabkowski. Combining their experience in machine learning at Palantir and Google, they debuted AI-powered speech software in January 2023 that turns text into spoken words. Users can design their own AI voices, but what really caught people's attention was how good their software is at cloning people's voices from short audio samples. While ElevenLabs' terms and conditions state that people must have permission to replicate others' voices, the software attracted attention after people used it to create unauthorized audio deepfakes of celebrities such as Ben Shapiro and Emma Watson saying offensive things and it is beleived that criminals may have used the software to help perpetrate a series of scams. “That’s something that we don’t support, and we’ll always take action,” Staniszewski said, and added that all audio files on the platform are traceable. Other safeguards have been put in place to verify users and make sure the voices they are cloning are their own. ElevenLabs insists that its software's real killer use case will be to help creators, corporations, and audiobook publishers expand the geographic reach of their content, enabling someone to translate spoken words into over 20 languages without distorting the original voice. They have reported hundreds of thousands of paid registrations but declined to provide revenue. It raised $19 million in a June 2023 Series A, led by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Andreessen Horowitz.

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