ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, its latest text-to-speech models focused on more expressive speech, stronger voice cloning, and faster response times.
The company announced the models in an X post, describing them as its “fastest and most emotive voice models yet.”
Benchmark Results
ElevenLabs says Eleven v4 ranked at the top of the Artificial Analysis Provider Voice Arena in September 2026. The company also ran blind head-to-head preference tests against Cartesia Sonic 3.6, Inworld TTS-2, Google Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, and Google Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS.
Introducing Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, our fastest and most emotive voice models yet.
Ranked #1 by Artificial Analysis. pic.twitter.com/gm8nAUMaQL
— ElevenLabs (@ElevenLabs) September 28, 2026
| Benchmark | Eleven v4 Result |
|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Provider Voice Arena | Ranked first |
| Test format | Blind head-to-head user preference testing |
| Areas judged | Expressiveness and naturalness |
| Compared against | Cartesia Sonic 3.6, Inworld TTS-2, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS |
For speed, Eleven v4 Turbo delivers median inference latency of around 100ms, excluding application and network latency.
| Model | Median Inference Latency | Languages | Main Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eleven v4 Turbo | ~100ms | 90+ | Expressive real-time speech |
| Eleven v3 Conversational | ~280ms | 70+ | Real-time expressive speech |
| Eleven Flash v2.5 | ~75ms | 32 | Lowest latency |
Eleven v4 Turbo is therefore substantially faster than Eleven v3 Conversational, although Eleven Flash v2.5 remains faster in raw latency. ElevenLabs positions v4 Turbo as the option for users who want lower latency without giving up the richer emotional delivery of the v4 family.
Eleven v4 Focuses on Expressive Speech
Eleven v4 is the higher-quality model and is designed for content creation, audiobooks, character voices, dubbing, and other uses where audio quality and emotional delivery matter most.
The model analyzes tone, pacing, emotion, character, and context when generating speech. It also supports inline audio tags such as [laughing], [whispering], and [shouting] for finer control over delivery.
Both Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo support more than 90 languages, multi-speaker dialogue, and high-fidelity voice cloning. Eleven v4 also supports Professional Voice Clones and more reliable request stitching for longer content.
Faster Eleven v4 Turbo
Eleven v4 Turbo uses the same model family but is optimized for real-time applications such as AI assistants, customer support agents, and interactive characters.
It supports WebSocket streaming, allowing audio generation to begin before the entire text input has been completed.
Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo are available through ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI.
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