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▶ 24:06 · $NVDA · Jensen Huang praises ElevenLabs speech-to-text as technology, text-to-speech as artistry
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ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for AI

2026-05-06 · 5 company · 5 thematic
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mati staniszewski

Mati Staniszewski founded ElevenLabs in 2022. The company built the first human-sounding text-to-speech model, reached $600M ARR in 40 months with 600 employees, and powers voice AI for enterprises (Revolut, Klarna), creators (Matthew McConaughey, James Earl Jones estate), and platforms (Fortnite, Headspace).

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“recently had a pleasure of meeting Jensen and he was commenting on a few of those models and he said that our speech to text our speech to text models are technology and text to speech is artistry and we are all artists”
—mati staniszewski
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