ElevenLabs launches two real-time speech-to-speech models

ElevenLabs released the Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models for low-latency conversational AI. The v1 Max variant scores 98.8% on the Big Bench Audio benchmark with a 0.57-second response time, and the company claims no model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard is both faster and more accurate.

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