{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-elevenlabs-dubbing-v2/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-elevenlabs-dubbing-v2/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-05-28-elevenlabs-dubbing-v2","date":"2026-05-28","date_precision":"day","short_title":"ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 dubs speech to speech directly in 90+ languages","deck":null,"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.","category":"media-generation","category_label":"Media generation","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"ElevenLabs blog: Introducing Dubbing v2","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-dubbing-v2","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"elevenlabs.io"},{"n":2,"title":"ElevenLabs blog: Dubbing v2 API","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/blog/dubbing-api","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"elevenlabs.io"},{"n":3,"title":"Docs: Dubbing","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/dubbing","type":"docs","group":"primary","domain":"elevenlabs.io"},{"n":4,"title":"API pricing","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api","type":"docs","group":"primary","domain":"elevenlabs.io"}],"official":4,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["ElevenLabs"],"title":"ElevenLabs Dubbing v2: direct speech-to-speech dubbing in 90+ languages","summary":"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. The API followed in August 2026 at $2.20/min.","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'"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["dubbing","speech-to-speech","translation","audio"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nElevenLabs replaced its cascaded dubbing pipeline with a direct audio-to-audio model. Model file: `data/models/elevenlabs-dubbing-v2.md`.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nEnd-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.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-09-28-elevenlabs-eleven-v4","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-28-elevenlabs-eleven-v4/","date":"2026-09-28","date_precision":"day","short_title":"ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, #1 on Artificial Analysis TTS arena","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":11,"official":7,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["ElevenLabs"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[{"id":"elevenlabs-dubbing-v2","name":"Eleven Dubbing v2","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-dubbing-v2/"}],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-07"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":28,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":58,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}