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# What is ElevenLabs?

ElevenLabs was founded in 2022 and focuses primarily on advanced generative AI for audio. The company was co-founded by Piotr Dąbkowski, a former Google machine learning engineer, and Mateusz Staniszewski, an ex-Palantir strategist.

The motivation to start ElevenLabs stemmed from a desire to improve the quality of voice dubbing in films, which led them to develop the backbone for their text-to-speech (TTS) solutions.

Their mission is to make content accessible in any language and in any voice.

Currently, ElevenLabs offer an extensive array of tools and technologies:

* [Text to speech](/docs/capabilities/text-to-speech)
* [Voice changer](/docs/capabilities/voice-changer)
* [Voice cloning and voice design](/docs/capabilities/voices)
* [Dubbing](/docs/capabilities/dubbing)
* [Sound effects](/docs/product/sound-effects/overview)
* And much more!

At ElevenLabs, we are constantly trying to innovate and push the bounds of what is possible with generative AI.

To learn more, we urge you to check out our [beautiful landing pages](https://elevenlabs.io/), as well as read through our [extensive documentation](/docs/) to discover what's possible.

> ElevenLabs provides APIs and SDKs for text to speech, voice cloning, speech to text, sound effects, voice isolator, voice changer, and conversational AI agents. Build voice-enabled applications with lifelike audio generation.