Grit ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces | CEO Mati Staniszewski
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Oct 27, 2025 
Mati Staniszewski, Co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, leads innovation in AI voice interfaces. He dives into how voice AI is revolutionizing personalized healthcare and enhancing creativity in filmmaking. Mati discusses the challenges of creating synthetic voices that convey emotions and explores the nuances of human-like versus transparent AI agents. He shares insights about balancing creative tools for consumers and enterprise solutions while predicting a future where AI significantly augments rather than replaces human creativity.
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Polish Dubbing Sparked ElevenLabs
- Mati Staniszewski started ElevenLabs after noticing Polish films used a single narrator for all characters.
- That experience sparked his belief audio could be transformed to carry distinct, emotional voices.
Making Synthetic Speech Truly Human
- ElevenLabs focused on making text-to-speech convey real emotions and intonation.
- They also developed voice encoding to preserve accent, dialect, and style in synthetic speech.
Uncanny Valley Is Contextual
- Uncanny valley is crossed in some voice use cases like call centers and narration but not yet in live conversational dialogue.
- Voice realism depends on the application and desired outcome, not a single universal bar.