ElevenLabs is an AI voice platform for text-to-speech, voice cloning, and automatic dubbing. It helps organizations produce awareness campaigns, volunteer training videos, and impact stories in Arabic, English, and French, and make written content available as audio for people who find reading difficult.
Key features
- Text-to-speech: natural voices in many languages, including Arabic.
- Voice cloning: a custom voice from a short recording, with the speaker’s consent.
- Automatic dubbing: translates and re-voices video into other languages.
- API: to build voice into apps.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10,000 credits a month, no commercial license |
| Starter | about $6/month | 30,000 credits |
| Creator | about $22/month | 121,000 credits, professional cloning |
| Pro | about $99/month | 600,000 credits |
| Scale | about $299/month | 1.8 million credits, 3 seats |
Business is about $990 a month and Enterprise is custom. A grants program exists for qualifying early-stage companies, so ask ElevenLabs whether it covers social enterprises.
Prices change over time. Figures above are based on ElevenLabs’ own pricing page.
Pros and cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Natural voices in many languages | Free plan has no commercial license |
| Dubbing extends reach to multilingual audiences | Quality for local dialects needs testing |
| Low-cost Starter plan | Cloning needs explicit consent and raises ethical questions |
Who ElevenLabs is for
Communications and training teams in organizations producing awareness campaigns or volunteer training videos in several languages, or making content available as audio to a wider audience.
Who should skip it
Skip it if you only need a few short internal clips. Never clone the voice of a beneficiary or real person without written consent.
How to get started
Test voices and dialects on the free plan, then move to Starter or Creator when you need rights for public content.
FAQ
Does it support Arabic?
Yes, but test the voice and dialect that suit your audience before large projects.
Can free-plan audio be used in a public campaign?
The free plan has no commercial license, so use a paid plan for published content.
Is it acceptable to clone a real speaker’s voice?
Only with the speaker’s consent, and tell your audience the voice is AI-generated.
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