Eleven v4 Is Here: ElevenLabs’ Most Expressive Voice Model Yet

ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, built on an entirely new Text to Speech architecture. The company calls them its fastest and most emotive voice models yet, and says Artificial Analysis ranks them #1.

If you make audio, video, or voice-powered products, here’s what matters.

What’s new

Expressive control

Inline tags and unspoken context let you direct delivery, emotion, pacing, reactions, sound effects, and style. You can also just describe how a line should be delivered, and v4 stages the scene.

Better voice cloning

Instant Voice Clones now capture a voice with high fidelity from just 10 seconds of audio. Professional Voice Clones remain the highest-fidelity option.

Consistent identity

Speaker identity holds more reliably across long narration, dialogue, and regenerated lines, so a voice stays itself across a whole production, not just one clip.

Stronger multilingual output

v4 improves across 90+ languages, with major gains in Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

Eleven v4 Turbo

This is the low-latency version, built for use cases like conversational agents. Both models are available in ElevenCreative, ElevenAgents, and ElevenAPI.

Who it’s for

v4 is designed for projects where how something is said matters as much as what is said:

• Audiobooks and narration
• Character voices and storytelling
• Video voiceovers
• Localization and dubbing
• Educational and training content
• Conversational agents
• Creative projects that need emotional range

In practice, that means line-level control without re-recording or hand-editing audio, a cloned voice that carries someone’s tone and personality, audio that fits its slot without manual retiming, and one script that reaches a global audience.

Launch pricing

For the next two weeks, ElevenLabs is making v4 cheaper to try:

Try it now

Whether you’re narrating a video, localizing a course, or building a voice agent, the launch window is a good time to test it.

Try Eleven v4

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