ElevenLabs launches two real-time voice agent models
The Eleven Realtime models, named Mini and Max, bundle speech recognition, reasoning and voice generation for developers. The Max variant responds in 0.57 seconds, according to the company.
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What happened
ElevenLabs launched Eleven Realtime on Tuesday, offering two managed voice-agent models, Mini and Max, that combine speech recognition, reasoning, turn-taking and voice generation. Developers cannot choose or separately configure the underlying models. ElevenLabs says the Max variant scores 98.8 percent on the Big Bench Audio benchmark with a 0.57-second response time.
Why it matters
The launch positions ElevenLabs against OpenAI's Realtime API in the voice agent market. ElevenLabs claims no model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard is both faster and more accurate.
Coverage
- Elevenlabs releases two new speech-to-speech models designed for real-time AI conversations (the-decoder.com)
- ElevenLabs wants to run your voice agent. Here’s what developers give up. (thenewstack.io)
- ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 Turbo to chase OpenAI in voice agents (startupfortune.com)
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