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ElevenLabs’ Eleven Realtime bundles voice agent speech, reasoning and turn-taking into one service. Here’s what developers trade away for that simplicity.

At a time when more and more banks and financial institutions are integrating AI-powered solutions into their systems and processes, what separates successful deployments of AI technology from failed, expensive, or incomplete ones?

Artificial intelligence can now generate speech that could easily be confused with a human voice. ElevenLabs is at the forefront of developing generative AI models that can speak with natural-sounding pauses, emotional inflection and distinctive accents.

Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion of their vested equity at a $22 billion valuation, doubling the $11 billion valuation the company hit when it raised $500 million in February.

ElevenLabs builds the voice layer of AI, the models that turn text into speech that sounds human. Most people encounter it when they’re talking with customer service — often without realizing it. Klarna runs first-line phone support for 35 million U.S. customers on it, for example. So do Deutsche Telekom, Cisco, Adobe, and a growing…