Introducing Eleven Realtime: a simpler way to build natural voice agents

Introducing Eleven Realtime, a new class of Speech to Speech models for building natural voice agents. Each Realtime model is a complete voice agent. Speech recognition, turn-taking, LLM, and voice are tuned together as one system, so you get a well-performing agent from a single model choice instead of configuring and testing each component yourself. Two models are available today. Eleven Realtime v1 Mini is built for natural conversation at a low cost, for AI assistants, tutors, and interactive characters. Eleven Realtime v1 Max is built for complex tasks and tool calling, for customer support, lead qualification, and multi-step workflows. Both start speaking in about 0.6 seconds. Independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis, v1 Max scores 98.8% on Big Bench Audio and starts speaking in 0.57 seconds on average. No model on their Speech to Speech leaderboard is both faster and more accurate. Eleven Realtime is available in ElevenAgents, where you select it from the model dropdown, and through the Realtime API, which is compatible with OpenAI’s Realtime API. If you’re already on OpenAI’s Realtime API, change the endpoint and model name and keep the rest of your code. Learn more: https://elevenlabs.io/realtime Read the launch blog: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/realtime Get started with docs: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/realtime-models Join the Community • Discord – https://discord.gg/hPE7yT33Qc • Reddit – https://www.reddit.com/r/ElevenLabs/ Links & Resources • ElevenLabs – https://elevenlabs.io/ • Docs & API – https://elevenlabs.io/docs/ • Blog – https://elevenlabs.io/blog/ 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 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.