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January 23, 2023

Generative AI comes for cinema dubbing: Audio AI startup ElevenLabs raises pre-seed

After breakthroughs for text and image generation, the next frontier for AI is audio


Zosia Wanat

4 min read

Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski, cofounders at Eleven Labs. Courtesy of Eleven Labs

There’s a new generative AI kid on the block — and this one’s mimicking the human voice.

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Zosia Wanat

Zosia Wanat was a senior reporter at Sifted. She covered the CEE region and policy. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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