ElevenLabs: You Can Clone Any Voice From Your Phone

ElevenLabs has brought voice cloning directly to your smartphone . Until yesterday, to use ElevenLabs you had to open the browser, access the site and hope that the connection held. A somewhat cumbersome process. Now you just download the app. Write the text, choose the voice, and in a few seconds the audio is ready. All from your phone, and in real time.

ElevenLabs' Voice Cloning Comes to Smartphones

ElevenLabs ’ numbers tell an interesting story. Lots of users were already accessing the service directly from their phone’s browser, not their computer. They created voice clips there, then hopped on to apps like CapCut, Instagram, or InShot to edit them, add music, or publish them.

Jack McDermott, the company’s head of mobile, confirms: “ We’ve seen an explosion of creativity over the last year. Creators, marketers, educators using ElevenLabs from their mobile browsers and asking for a native experience. ” In short, people wanted this feature, and they finally got it.

What can you do with 10 free minutes?

The free plan offers about 10 minutes of audio per month . Does that seem like a lot? It depends on how you use it. 10 minutes can become: 20 x 30-second clips for TikTok; 5 x 2-minute narrations for YouTube; 1 full podcast if you speak fast. The app also includes the new v3 alpha model, which allows you to control your vocal expressions with specific tags.

ElevenLabs is building a complete ecosystem. It already has the Reader app for listening to articles and ebooks . Now it's adding mobile speech generation. The next step? Speech-to-text and conversational AI agents, for sure.

The opportunities and risks of voice cloning, is it worth the risk?

This technology is going mainstream at an astonishing rate. In a few months, creating content with artificial voices will be as normal as putting a filter on Instagram. This means creators will be able to produce multilingual content instantly; companies will be able to create commercials without voice actors; and students will be able to turn notes into personalized podcasts. But there are downsides: deepfakes in voices, more sophisticated phone scams , a loss of authenticity in content.