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Last editorial review: 2026-07-18

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DEPRECATION STATUS SETTLED (verified on vendor docs 2026-07-18): **scribe_v1 is now formally listed in the 'Deprecated models' table** -- 'First generation speech recognition (outclassed by v2 models)', replacement suggestion `scribe_v2` -- with NO removal date published (the ambiguous removal wording from early July is gone; it remains deprecated-but-available). Current STT flagships are Scribe v2 and Scribe v2 Realtime. Also now marked deprecated/legacy on the same models page: **eleven_turbo_v2_5, eleven_turbo_v2, and music_v1**. The monolingual_v1 + multilingual_v1 removals executed 7/9-7/10 stand. If you still call any v1 or turbo_v2-era model id, plan migrations now rather than waiting for a removal date to be announced
2026-07-18•ElevenLabs docs: Models (elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/models, scraped 2026-07-18)
V1 MODEL REMOVAL EXECUTED (2026-07-09; confirmed via docs delisting 7/10): **eleven_monolingual_v1 and eleven_multilingual_v1 are now delisted entirely from the vendor models page** -- the July 9 removal went through as scheduled, and pinned API calls to those TTS v1 model IDs should be treated as failing. **scribe_v1 remains listed as deprecated** ('outclassed by v2 models') with the removal-date wording now gone -- if you're still pinned to scribe_v1, migrate to scribe_v2 immediately rather than betting on the ambiguity. No past-tense changelog entry was posted for the removal; the delisting is the confirmation. These are model deprecations, not voice-library removals; cloned/library voices are unaffected. Separately (7/6 changelog): the Agents 'Simulate conversation' endpoints are deprecated in favor of newer test endpoints, and the `disable_interruptions` param was replaced by `interruption_mode`
2026-07-09•ElevenLabs docs (elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/models -- checked 2026-07-09 and 2026-07-10), ElevenLabs changelog (2026-06-08 removal announcement)
PRODUCT (2026-05-26 + 2026-05-28): **Eleven Music v2** (5/26) -- genre switching mid-track, coherent fast rap, embedded sound effects in generated tracks (see the elevenmusic page for detail). **Dubbing v2** (5/28) -- next-gen dubbing pipeline on the main platform. Also: UK Government voice-AI partnership announced 6/8. No pricing changes attached to either release
2026-05-28•ElevenLabs blog (elevenlabs.io/blog), TechCrunch (2026-05-27)
Platform continues to face deepfake-abuse pressure -- voice cloning requires verified identity for new accounts as of 2026
2026-01•The Verge
11.ai alpha has intermittent latency issues on longer agentic chains -- still maturing
2026-03•Product Hunt 11.ai threads

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if ElevenLabs is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

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GPT-Live (ChatGPT Voice)

8.6

OpenAI's full-duplex voice models (launched 2026-07-08) now powering ChatGPT Voice -- listens and speaks at the same time, backchannels naturally, and delegates hard questions to GPT-5.5 in the background while keeping the conversation going. GPT-Live-1 for paid tiers, GPT-Live-1 mini for Free

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Descript

8.5

Edit audio and video by editing text -- the 'Google Docs of media editing' actually lives up to the hype

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Grok Speech (STT + TTS APIs)

8.1

xAI's standalone voice APIs -- launched 2026-04-17. Built on the stack that powers Grok Voice, Tesla vehicles, and Starlink customer support. $0.10/hr STT batch, $4.20 per 1M characters TTS, 25+ languages. Now 26 flagship TTS voices (21 new added 2026-07-06), custom voice cloning from ~1 min of audio, and a no-code Grok Voice Agent Builder

A

Cohere Transcribe

8.0

Cohere's first audio model -- launched 2026-03-26 under Apache 2.0, 2B parameters, #1 on Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (5.42 avg WER), 14 enterprise-critical languages. Free API with rate limits; Model Vault for production

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Microsoft MAI-Voice-2

7.3

Microsoft's in-house expressive TTS model -- MAI-Voice-2 launched 2026-06-02 at Build: 15 languages (up from English-only), granular emotion-tag control, zero-shot voice cloning from a 5-60s clip, and preferred over MAI-Voice-1 72% of the time. In speaker-similarity tests its speech is 'indistinguishable' from real recordings. On Azure Foundry + integrated into VS Code and Dynamics 365 Contact Center; lower-cost MAI-Voice-2-Flash coming. Original MAI-Voice-1 shipped 2026-04-02

About ElevenLabs

Tier A (8.5/10). Best-in-class AI voice generation -- now includes 11.ai (MCP-based voice assistant), Eleven v3 expressive speech, and IBM watsonx partnership. $500M raise at $11B valuation (Feb 2026)

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