The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs

🍻 Don't miss the next round of Cheeky Pint! Subscribe to our new channel for all future episodes and clips: https://www.youtube.com/@CheekyPint Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder of ElevenLabs, the research company making audio accessible across languages and voices. He sits down with John to discuss the "voice Turing Test" and why AI has conquered text but still struggles with conversational speech. They discuss the future of human-computer interaction, including why we still can't get our phones to read a PDF properly and the massive potential for voice agents in everything from farming to healthcare. Mati also opens up about ElevenLabs’ rapid ascent to an $11 billion valuation and gives a behind-the-scenes look at how Ukraine is using their tech for digital government services. Full transcript on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/cheekypint/p/the-world-of-voice-ai-with-mati-staniszewski Subscribe to Cheeky Pint Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2IHbGJJ... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Key moments 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:27 How audio models work 00:08:52 ElevenLabs business model 00:17:50 The conversational Turing Test 00:21:01 Link by Stripe 00:26:02 Cascaded vs speech-to-speech 00:31:53 Universal translation 00:51:41 Designing an AI-native org