November 29, 2024

Product Updates

  • GenFM: Launched in the ElevenReader app. Learn more

  • Conversational AI: Now generally available to all customers. Try it now

  • TTS Redesign: The website TTS redesign is now rolled out to all customers.

  • Auto-regenerate: Now available in Projects. Learn more

  • Reader Platform Improvements:

    • Improved content sharing with enhanced landing pages and social media previews
    • Added podcast rating system and improved voice synchronization
  • Projects revamp

    • Restore past generations, lock content, assign speakers to sentence fragments, and QC at 2x speed. Learn more
    • Auto-regeneration identifies mispronunciations and regenerates audio at no extra cost. Learn more

API Updates

October 27, 2024

API Updates

  • u-law Audio Formats: Added u-law audio formats to the Convai API for integrations with Twilio.
  • TTS Websocket Improvements: TTS websocket improvements, flushes and generation work more intuitively now.
  • TTS Websocket Auto Mode: A more streamlined mode for using websockets. This setting focuses on reducing the latency by disabling the chunk schedule and all buffers. It is only recommended when sending full sentences, sending partial sentences will result in highly reduced quality.
  • Improvements to latency consistency: Improvements to latency consistency for all models.

Website Updates

  • TTS Redesign: The website TTS redesign is now in alpha!
October 20, 2024

API Updates

  • Normalize Text with the API: Added the option normalize the input text in the TTS API. The new parameter is called apply_text_normalization and works on all non-turbo models.

Feature Additions

  • Voice Design: The Voice Design feature is now in beta!
October 13, 2024

Model Updates

  • Stability Improvements: Significant improvements in the audio stability of all models, but especially noticeable on turbo_v2 and turbo_v2.5, when using:
    • Websockets
    • Projects
    • Reader app
    • TTS with request stitching
    • ConvAI
  • Latency Improvements: Time to first byte latency improvements by around 20-30ms for all models.

API Updates

  • Remove Background Noise Voice Samples: Added the ability to remove background noise from voice samples using our audio isolation model to improve quality for IVCs and PVCs at no additional cost.
  • Remove Background Noise STS Input: Added the ability to remove background noise from STS audio input using our audio isolation model to improve quality at no additional cost.

Feature Additions

  • Conversational AI Beta: The conversational AI feature is now in beta!