ElevenLabs

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I often use the ElevenLabs app/extension to listen to articles”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Even with Elevenlabs (long time subscriber) the comparative quality of Kokoro keeps up really well until you get to their larger models with their professional voices”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-07

• “I keep paying ElevenLabs for 3 years after some early AI agent project where I used it as my payment data is bound to a google account associated with a phone number that expired in the meantime”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-05

• “there are parameters in the elevenlabs API docs to make the voice more stable”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-12

• “I did build it with Elevenlabs TTS to make the voice as natural as possible”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-03

• “generate short audio (via ElevenLabs) dialogs and set of questions”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-02

• “ElevenLabs had made their STT-LLM-TTS pipeline way faster in the past month and left it at that”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-27

• “I got much better results, though still not perfect, with the voice isolator in ElevenLabs.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-12-23

• “Surprisingly immersive. The audio was the most fun to build. ElevenLabs narration layered with ethereal ambient pads”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-04

• “It's an ElevenLabs voice agent that: - Checks in at intervals you set - Keeps you accountable to your stated goals - Can answer questions/help think through problems mid-session”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-16

• “switched from elevenlabs to chatterbox (hosted on Resemble.ai) and it is much much cheaper and better”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-09-03

• “ElevenLabs' Scribe model is also particularly great with accuracy”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-19

• “after ElevenLabs launched their music generation I decided I really quite want to spent some time to have it generate background tracks for me to have on while working”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-16

• “I gave a voiced AI (elevenlabs) a big prompt about how it should please be critical, truth seeking, always thinking about how I might be wrong and suddenly I was getting a lot of pushback and almost human-like investigation of the ideas I was proposing”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-03

• “using the Elevenlabs' API vs their web UI actually gives you 12.5x more Speech-To-Text credit hours”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-30

• “I don't think I've come across anything quite so versatile and easy to "sculpt" as Elevenlabs and it's ability to generate a voice on the basis of a description of how you want the voice to sound”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-06-11

• “ElevenLabs v2's accented voices are still much stronger than any of its competition”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-06-05

• “ElevenLabs: Hands-down the best for natural-sounding voices.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-18

• “ElevenLabs' reader and the NotebookLM's podcast feature invaluable for reviewing and refining my work, as well as discovering new ideas along the way”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-16

• “I've been really impressed with **ElevenLabs** – it's amazing how natural the AI voices sound these days”

  POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-02-25

• “If you are looking for an AI specifically for hearing what you want to say, I recommend elevenlabs. HeyGen is more built in with the videos for lip syncing, not necessarily for voicing only, in elevenlabs you'll be able to download the voice-over only too”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2024-12-28