Varun Mayya on 3 Years of AI Avatars With ElevenLabs

Varun Mayya on three years of running an AI avatar voiced by ElevenLabs. Clone Your Voice → https://elevenlabs.io/voice-cloning?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=summit_bengaluru&utm_content=summit_blr_varun_mayya Varun Mayya, founder and CEO of Aeos, was one of ElevenLabs' first customers in India. Three years ago he set out to replace himself in videos with an AI avatar, and people told him audiences would never watch it. Today his content does 30 to 80 million views a month, and YouTube recognized him at Davos in 2025 as one of the world's largest AI avatar creators. At ElevenLabs Summit Bengaluru, Varun breaks down how the workflow actually works, and why it's still a human process: • Training his voice clone on an hour of content, then topping it up with recordings of the words it got wrong • Regenerating most sentences three or four times to get the right tone • Respelling tricky words phonetically and directing delivery with audio tags, caps and bold • Why the first three seconds decide whether a video gets 20,000 views or a million He also shows what Aeos builds for brands: regional-language cricket content for RCB, a WhatsApp campaign for Mirzapur Season 3 that put viewers' names in the trailer, and AI avatar traffic updates for the Bengaluru traffic police. He closes with a sample from Eleven v4 using his existing voice. Clone Your Voice → https://elevenlabs.io/voice-cloning?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=summit_bengaluru&utm_content=summit_blr_varun_mayya Varun Mayya x ElevenLabs: 00:00 - "Certified Human" and why AI is still early 01:18 - Replacing himself with an AI avatar 02:50 - How the voice clone was trained 04:19 - Fixing pronunciation and directing delivery 05:48 - Hooks, views and 70 enterprise channels 07:43 - Regional cricket content for RCB 10:41 - A personalized Mirzapur trailer on WhatsApp 12:10 - AI avatars for the Bengaluru traffic police 14:26 - Older models vs Eleven v4 Join the Community • Discord → https://discord.gg/hPE7yT33Qc • Reddit → https://www.reddit.com/r/ElevenLabs/ Links & Resources • ElevenLabs → https://elevenlabs.io/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=summit_bengaluru&utm_content=summit_blr_varun_mayya • Docs & API → https://elevenlabs.io/docs/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=summit_bengaluru&utm_content=summit_blr_varun_mayya • Blog → https://elevenlabs.io/blog/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=summit_bengaluru&utm_content=summit_blr_varun_mayya • Building with the API? Subscribe to ElevenLabs Developers → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yH2AvG2IxvsWQkQoLqL0g Connect with ElevenLabs • Subscribe → https://www.youtube.com/@Elevenlabs?sub_confirmation=1 • Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/elevenlabsio • TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@elevenlabs • X → https://x.com/elevenlabs Clone Your Voice → https://elevenlabs.io/voice-cloning?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=summit_bengaluru&utm_content=summit_blr_varun_mayya About ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is the leading AI voice platform for realistic, context-aware speech generation. Creators, developers, and enterprises use our tools to design voices, dub content, and build expressive AI video and audio workflows.