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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 dubs speech to speech directly in 90+ languages

Full title: ElevenLabs Dubbing v2: direct speech-to-speech dubbing in 90+ languages

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'

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 28 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 58 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [ElevenLabs blog: Introducing Dubbing v2](https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-dubbing-v2) (elevenlabs.io, official)
2. [ElevenLabs blog: Dubbing v2 API](https://elevenlabs.io/blog/dubbing-api) (elevenlabs.io, official)
3. [Docs: Dubbing](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/dubbing) (elevenlabs.io, docs)
4. [API pricing](https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api) (elevenlabs.io, docs)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-09-28: [ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, #1 on Artificial Analysis TTS arena](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-28-elevenlabs-eleven-v4/index.md)
- Models: [Eleven Dubbing v2](https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-dubbing-v2/) (`elevenlabs-dubbing-v2`)