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Eleven v3

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Summary

Eleven v3 is ElevenLabs’ expressive text-to-speech model for multilingual, multi-speaker output. The provider documents more than 70 languages, a 5,000-character text limit, and a Text to Dialogue API for conversations with multiple voices. Its value lies in emotional range and contextual delivery, not general audio reasoning.

ElevenLabs now describes v3 as a previous-generation synthesis model and lists Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo as newer speech-synthesis models. The separate Eleven v3 Conversational profile uses a Text to Dialogue WebSocket for real-time speech synthesis. The models therefore differ in transport and real-time behavior despite sharing the v3 label.

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Measurements without matching peer values

These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.

Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Chinese (zh), CER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
4.46
Score
4.46
Metric
character error rate (CER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Chinese (zh)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Chinese (zh), CER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, English (en), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
3.61
Score
3.61
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, English (en)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, English (en), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Japanese (ja), CER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
5.71
Score
5.71
Metric
character error rate (CER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Japanese (ja)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Japanese (ja), CER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Korean (ko), CER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
5.46
Score
5.46
Metric
character error rate (CER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Korean (ko)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Korean (ko), CER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, German (de), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
3.64
Score
3.64
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, German (de)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, German (de), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Spanish (es), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
3.92
Score
3.92
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Spanish (es)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Spanish (es), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, French (fr), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
9.31
Score
9.31
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, French (fr)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, French (fr), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Italian (it), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
4.68
Score
4.68
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Italian (it)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Italian (it), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Russian (ru), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
5.38
Score
5.38
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Russian (ru)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Russian (ru), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Arabic (ar), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
5.51
Score
5.51
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Arabic (ar)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Arabic (ar), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Indonesian (id), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
2.85
Score
2.85
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Indonesian (id)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Indonesian (id), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper Table 4: ElevenLabs-v3, CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Portuguese (pt), WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
2.33
Score
2.33
Metric
word error rate (WER) on CV3-Eval multilingual voice cloning, Portuguese (pt)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
arXiv:2607.23938v1, published 2026-07-27; evaluation date not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact ElevenLabs-v3 public-API result (API model eleven_v3); CV3-Eval multilingual voice-cloning subset, Portuguese (pt), WER. The paper gives no per-row evaluated sample count or confidence interval.
Context
This preprint is authored by Alibaba Token Foundry, a competing speech-generation provider. Treat its comparative scores as vendor-reported, not an independent third-party evaluation. They apply only to the exact model named in this row; MiniMax-Speech-2.8-HD results do not establish Speech 2.8 Turbo performance.
Source Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry

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Popularity compared

How often the model is searched for, used and mentioned, compared with every model of its category.

Popularity index

0 to 100, higher is more popular

20 of 83 models

As of November 2026 · Source: gradually.ai popularity index

Over time

Weekly values from October 18, 2026 to November 6, 2026

Eleven v3Maya 2 Native 40GPT-Live-Transcribe 39Scribe v2 39Sonic 3.6 39

Method changes in the timeline, a jump at these points is no market event:

  1. 1November 1, 2026: Value only with search or usage data, 30-day attention

What is gaining popularity right now, across models, vendors, harnesses and AI subscriptions, is collected in All AI trends.

All specifications

Architecture

Model class
Text-to-speech
Source: Model class

Input and output

Input
Text
Source: Input
Output
Audio
Source: Output
Languages
Over 70 languages
Source: Languages

Watermarking and provenance

AI watermarking refers to invisible signals embedded in the output. Visible marks and provenance metadata are listed separately. Unknown means there is insufficient evidence for that particular field.

AI watermarking
Subject to limitations. ElevenLabs describes an inaudible watermark in its own generated audio and identifies SynthID, including for speech generation. Older recordings made before its introduction and third-party model outputs are not automatically covered.
Source 1: AI watermarkingSource 2: AI watermarkingSource 3: AI watermarkingSource 4: AI watermarking

Licence and access

API

API model ID
eleven_v3
Source: API model ID

Further details

Task
Expressive speech generation
Source: Task
Supported details
Multi-speaker output in more than 70 languages
Source: Supported details
Text input
Up to 5,000 characters
Source: Text input
Dialogue
Multi-speaker dialogue through the Text to Dialogue API
Source: Dialogue
Evaluated API variant
Exact API variant: eleven_v3 (retrieved 2026-10-16)
Source: Evaluated API variant

Sources and data date

Show all 41 sources

Benchmark sources at a glance

Which independent evaluators tested this model. This is coverage, not a quality ranking.

No active result from the reviewed external evaluators can currently be attributed to this model. Other source evidence remains available below.

Without vendor claims and historical or disputed results; those stay labelled in the single values.

TypeEvidence and data date
Research statusResearch date October 15, 2026. 31 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Unresolved

exact-serving-snapshot-and-unpublished-method-details

Note

The captured external source reports a benchmark-specific model or hosted route but does not establish an immutable currently served checkpoint. Unpublished row-level denominators and confidence intervals remain unknown; sample counts were entered only for cells that state them.

Additional sourceElevenLabs model documentation (retrieved September 24, 2026; October 15, 2026; October 16, 2026; October 17, 2026) · ElevenLabs model documentation · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional sourceArtificial Analysis (retrieved October 15, 2026; October 16, 2026; October 19, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceSpeechArena (retrieved October 15, 2026; October 16, 2026)
Additional sourceQwen-Audio-3.0-TTS paper, Alibaba Token Foundry (retrieved October 16, 2026)
Additional sourceAskable Labs VOICE-H (retrieved October 17, 2026)
Additional sourceSpeko multilingual TTS benchmark (retrieved October 17, 2026)
Additional sourceElevenLabs Eleven v3 GA report (retrieved October 17, 2026)
Additional sourcePSP authors, independent evaluation (retrieved October 17, 2026)
Additional sourceBreeze Blue TTS Latency Benchmark (retrieved October 18, 2026)
Additional sourceSocialPro (retrieved October 18, 2026)
Additional sourceCekura Bench TTS Model Benchmarks (retrieved October 19, 2026)
Additional sourceHume AI Voice Replication Leaderboard (retrieved October 23, 2026)
Additional sourceArtificial Analysis (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; November 3, 2026)12
Additional sourceDesignArena (retrieved October 28, 2026)12
Additional sourceVoiceArena primary public leaderboard (retrieved October 28, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 17, 2026)1234
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 18, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 28, 2026)123456789
Additional sourceElevenLabs: Audio Detector (retrieved November 5, 2026)
Additional sourceElevenLabs: Audio provenance (retrieved November 5, 2026)
Additional sourceElevenLabs: Voice generation API (retrieved November 5, 2026)
Additional sourceElevenLabs: Audio Detector and classifier (retrieved November 5, 2026)
Additional sourceOpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceVercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceOllama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index
Additional sourceReplicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index
Additional sourceGoogle Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US
Additional sourceCreative Commons Attribution 4.0