ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 dubs speech to speech directly in 90+ languages
Confirmed
The takeaway
On 2026-05-28 ElevenLabs introduced Dubbing v2, which conditions directly on the original speech instead of an ASR-translate-TTS pipeline, so emotion and performance carry across 90+ languages.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra28 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen58 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It is after the cutoff of GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Hydrogen, and can be in the training data of Claude Opus 5.5 and Grok 4.7.
Key facts
- Speech-to-speech architecture ‘conditioning directly on the original performance’; 90+ languages
- ElevenLabs claim: ‘For the first time, the emotion and performance of the original speaker carries across every language’
- UI launch 2026-05-28 (ElevenCreative, ElevenProductions); API 2026-08-06 (blog) / 2026-08-10 (changelog)
- API price $2.20/min (Dubbing v1: $0.33/min watermarked, $0.50 unwatermarked); docs label it ‘Dubbing v2 Alpha’
What happened
ElevenLabs replaced its cascaded dubbing pipeline with a direct audio-to-audio model. Model file: data/models/elevenlabs-dubbing-v2.md.
Why it matters
End-to-end speech-to-speech translation that keeps each speaker’s performance makes AI dubbing viable for expressive film and creator content. The “first” is a company claim.
Sources
4 sources from 1 site. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 4 primary
Primary
- ElevenLabs blog: Introducing Dubbing v2elevenlabs.io, official
- ElevenLabs blog: Dubbing v2 APIelevenlabs.io, official
- Docs: Dubbingelevenlabs.io, docs
- API pricingelevenlabs.io, docs
Changes
- Filed