Explore how ElevenLabs compares to Amazon Polly to help you choose the best AI audio platform for your use-case.
ElevenLabs is the industry-leading AI audio platform, offering over 5,000 lifelike AI voices - 50 times the selection available from Amazon Polly. With exceptionally low latency at 75ms and superior voice customization capabilities, ElevenLabs is perfectly suited for Conversational AI, Voice AI applications, and premium content creation.
ElevenLabs is superior as shown by independent benchmarks.
ElevenLabs leads in independent benchmarks, including HuggingFace TTS Arena Leaderboards. Across nearly 20,000 blind test votes, ElevenLabs achieved a listener preference of 75.3%, significantly outperforming other models.
ElevenLabs has the lowest latency and real-time support
Natural human conversations occur at around 200 milliseconds latency. For genuinely immersive, real-time conversational interactions, AI speech must fall below this threshold.
Latency comparison - Model time (excl. Network Latency)
ElevenLabs maintains a faster, more consistently low-latency experience essential for real-time applications.
ElevenLabs is contextually aware and gives you full control
ElevenLabs uniquely provides contextual control, meaning fewer manual adjustments yield superior, naturally expressive results. While other platforms like Amazon Polly offer basic adjustments, ElevenLabs delivers consistently high-quality, contextually nuanced speech output, including speed adjustments.
ElevenLabs has 1,000s of human-like voices
ElevenLabs offers an extensive voice library featuring over 5,000 AI-generated voices, plus advanced tools like Voice Design, enabling you to create entirely new voices tailored to your needs. Amazon Polly, in comparison, provides a limited set of 100 pre-made voices with no capacity for new voice creation.
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ElevenLabs support professional voice cloning
ElevenLabs boasts a suite of powerful voice cloning and design capabilities. With Instant Voice Cloning, you can replicate voices quickly from just 30-second audio samples. Professional Voice Cloning offers hyper-realistic, high-fidelity voice clones based on extensive audio inputs. Additionally, the Voice Design tool allows the creation of entirely new voices from a single text prompt.
Amazon Polly, conversely, does not offer voice cloning or design capabilities, limiting users to the voices already provided.
ElevenLabs supports 70+ languages
ElevenLabs supports voice generation across 70+ languages, enabling global reach for multilingual applications. With precise accent control and natural fluency, ElevenLabs allows creators to tailor voices to specific regional audiences with remarkable authenticity. In contrast, Amazon Polly supports 29 languages and offers more limited accent and dialect options, making ElevenLabs the clear choice for diverse, high-quality international voice output.
ElevenLabs supports additional controls with Voice Changer
ElevenLabs offers a Voice Changer product, allowing you to dynamically control emotional tone, speech pace, and overall delivery. Perfect for scenarios requiring on-the-fly adjustments such as interactive storytelling, gaming, and real-time conversational AI, this feature significantly enhances user engagement and emotional resonance—capabilities not found with Amazon Polly.
Enable mic access, record yourself reading some prompts and generate the sample in different voices
.@ElevenLabsIO is really good. https://t.co/WL9CQrPsg3
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) February 28, 2025
As a scientist and educator, I've always believed that the best scientific and health information should be accessible to everyone—not just English speakers. That's why I'm excited to share that we're working with @elevenlabsio to begin exploring dubbing of Huberman Lab content,… pic.twitter.com/QHZv4Inyro
— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) November 1, 2024
The ElevenLabs Impact Program is taking a meaningful step forward by offering free voice cloning technology to members of Lary’s Speakeasy, the world's largest online support network for the laryngectomy community.
Many business phone systems rely on interactive voice response (IVR) menus. Until now, these systems created a barrier for AI agents, limiting automation in key workflows.
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