On World Stroke Day, the ElevenLabs Impact Program is partnering with Stroke Onward to help survivors reclaim their voices.
Each year, more than 12 million people worldwide experience a stroke. For many, recovery involves relearning how to walk, think, and communicate. Some regain their speech fully. Others live with long-term motor-speech challenges that make verbal communication difficult or impossible.
Today, on World Stroke Day, we’re proud to announce our partnership with Stroke Onward. Founded by stroke survivors, Stroke Onward helps people navigate the emotional and identity challenges of rebuilding life after a stroke. Together, we aim to make voice restoration technology available to everyone who needs it, and to strengthen the community of those rebuilding life after stroke.
Through this partnership, individuals affected by permanent speech loss can now apply for the ElevenLabs Impact Program. Approved applicants receive free access to our advanced voice cloning and Text to Speech tools, allowing them to create and use a digital voice that represents them authentically.
For those living with dysarthria or other motor-speech impairments, this technology can help restore a vital part of their identity. It enables them to communicate naturally with loved ones, participate in conversations, and express themselves in their own voice.
Stroke Onward has also launched the Stroke Onward Community Circle (SOCC)—a free, online community where survivors, carepartners, and professionals connect around the emotional and identity sides of recovery.
In a world that often focuses only on physical rehabilitation, SOCC creates space for everything else—the emotional, invisible, and deeply personal parts of rebuilding life after stroke. Members can join live events, share experiences, and access curated tools that support emotional recovery.
By introducing ElevenLabs voice technology into this community, we hope to empower members to rediscover and reclaim their voices as a part of that recovery process.
We believe everyone should have the ability to express themselves in their own voice. Partnering with Stroke Onward helps us reach people living with speech loss, ensuring that technology serves as an enabler, not a barrier, to human connection.
On World Stroke Day, we’re reminded that recovery from stroke is about more than physical healing. It’s about rebuilding identity, connection, and purpose. Together with Stroke Onward, we aim to make that journey more accessible, helping survivors regain their voices and their sense of self.
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One year ago, the ElevenLabs Impact Program set out to provide one million voices to people with permanent speech loss caused by conditions such as ALS, head and neck cancer, cerebral palsy, and PSP. Today, we’re taking a major step toward that goal.
Eight seconds of audio from an old VHS tape was all Sarah needed to reclaim her voice with ElevenLabs — and through her Smartbox assistive technology device, finally let her children hear her authentic voice.
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