ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
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31 min
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2 min
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Leadership, Artificial Intelligence, Product & Tech Trends
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What It Covers
ElevenLabs CEO Mady Stanashevsky discusses building AI voice technology at scale, from text-to-speech models to enterprise voice agents, marketplace monetization, and global team management strategies.
Notable Moment
Stanashevsky reveals ElevenLabs hired a brilliant researcher who was simultaneously developing open source text-to-speech models while working in a call center receiving customer calls.
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