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Last editorial review: 2026-09-14

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ELEVENLABS AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP -- FIRST MAJOR-LABEL DEAL, A LICENSED FAN-REMIX PLATFORM IS COMING, AND IT PUTS ELEVENLABS IN DIRECT COMPETITION WITH SUNO v6 (2026-09-10, vendor-primary): ElevenLabs announced 'a **multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration with Universal Music Group**', described as 'our first agreement with a major label, encompassing licensing and product development.' **What is actually being built:** 'a new AI-powered music creation platform built on licensed music and artist participation', now in development, letting fans 'co-create with music from participating artists and songwriters, including through **remixes and mashups, new track interpretations, and personalized vocal experiences**', plus jointly developed audio products for artists and songwriters. UMG's Lucian Grainge is quoted; CEO Mati Staniszewski frames it as artists and songwriters being 'fairly compensated'. **SCOPE, PER ELEVENLABS:** the new platform 'will be distinct and offered separately from our existing music products' -- the **Music API** and **ElevenMusic** are unaffected and remain the current offering. **No launch date, no pricing, no artist roster named.** **WHY IT MATTERS:** on 9/09 Suno launched v6 with Warner, BMG and Believe and promised opt-in artist experiences; a day later UMG -- the label suing Suno -- picked ElevenLabs as its licensed-AI partner. The licensed-fan-remix category now has two label-backed entrants a day apart, and UMG is on the ElevenLabs side of it. ElevenLabs has not disclosed whether the UMG catalogue will be used to train new models or only to license outputs; the post says 'built on licensed music', which is a product statement, not a training-data one.
2026-09-10•ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io/blog/umg, JSON-LD datePublished 2026-09-10) -- fetched 2026-09-14 via curl
STALENESS CATCH-UP, JUNE-AUGUST 2026 (this page was last reviewed 2026-07-18; everything below is from ElevenLabs' own blog, dated by JSON-LD, and none of it was on the page): **ElevenLabs CLI v1 (2026-08-24)** -- 'brings the ElevenLabs API directly into your terminal', designed 'agents first' with structured JSON output, a `--dry-run` mode, and **agents-as-code for ElevenAgents**: pull every agent in a workspace into local config files, diff, and push to production by hand or from a coding agent. Every endpoint in the OpenAPI spec is a subcommand. Install via Homebrew (`elevenlabs/tap/elevenlabs`), Scoop, or a curl installer. **Procedures in ElevenAgents (2026-06-30)**, **Ads Engine in ElevenCreative (2026-06-22)** -- localise ads across 50+ languages, **Flows Agent in ElevenCreative (2026-06-04)**, plus the previously recorded Music v2 and Dubbing v2 (May). **Corporate:** **$500M ARR** crossed with new investors (2026-05-05); **$22M earned by voice creators**, doubling in six months (2026-05-22); expansions in Canada (7/07), California (173 jobs, 6/22), Australia/NZ, plus Poland and UK government partnerships (June); a new **CRO (Ashley Kramer, 9/02)** and **CFO (Ethan Tandowsky, 9/08)** -- both ex-executive hires that usually precede an IPO-readiness push, though ElevenLabs has said nothing about listing. **No pricing changes and no model deprecations found in the window** -- the models page state recorded 7/18 (scribe_v1 deprecated, v1 TTS removed) stands.
2026-08-24•ElevenLabs blog (elevenlabs.io/blog/elevenlabs-cli-v1 datePublished 2026-08-24; /procedures 2026-06-30; /introducing-ads-engine-in-elevencreative 2026-06-22; /introducing-flows-agent 2026-06-04; /500m-arr-and-new-investors 2026-05-05; /22-million-earned-by-voice-creators-on-elevenlabs 2026-05-22; /canada 2026-07-07; /expanding-in-california 2026-06-22; /cro 2026-09-02; /cfo 2026-09-08) -- all fetched 2026-09-14 via curl
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

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

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Grok Speech (STT + TTS APIs)

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xAI's standalone voice APIs. **Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 shipped 2026-09-18** -- xAI calls it twice as accurate as 1.0 at the same $0.10/hr batch and $0.20/hr streaming, ranks it first for accuracy among 32 streaming models on Artificial Analysis, and has already made it the default STT model; **1.0 is being retired in the coming weeks, so pin grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 if you need it**. **PRICE CORRECTION: text-to-speech is $15.00 per 1M characters on xAI's live rate card (verified 2026-09-21), not the $4.20 this page carried since April.** Speech-to-speech agent $0.08/min, 26 flagship voices, ~1-minute voice cloning, no-code Voice Agent Builder

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Cohere Transcribe

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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 -- 11.ai (MCP-based voice assistant), Eleven v3 expressive speech, ElevenMusic and ElevenAgents. **On 2026-09-10 ElevenLabs signed a multi-year licensing and product deal with Universal Music Group** -- its first major-label agreement -- to build a fan remix/mashup platform on licensed music. **ElevenLabs CLI v1 (2026-08-24)** exposes the entire API in the terminal with agents-as-code. $500M+ ARR (May 2026); $500M raise at $11B valuation (Feb 2026)

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