Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMati Staniszewski: belief
14 Apr 2026 Cheeky Pint The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
“To that extent, I would say that that's just getting there. We'll hopefully see that.”
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- Mati Staniszewski
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- belief
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- 14 Apr 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…That's where it gets tricky. To that extent, I would say that that's just getting there. We'll hopefully see that. Our goal is to pass the voice Turing test in all those cases or the Turing test for all conversational agents outside of voice, too. I hope we will all be there in the next year or so. For subscription businesses, a lot of revenue is lost in that last few seconds before the checkout. Someone has to get up and find their wallet, or they mistyped their card number, or they hit an error, and they just give up, and you lose the sale. For a company like ElevenLabs, adding hundreds of thousands of subscribers, even a tiny bit of friction like that, it would really add up. But that's why ElevenLabs uses Link from Stripe. Customers save their details once, and then they can check out in seconds across more than a million businesses with saved credentials. If you want a faster checkout for your customers, you should turn on Link from Stripe. Are you guys working on personalized voice transcription where it feels like part of the way we're making it hard for ourselves is when I speak to Siri, I have a bit of an accent, and so it sometimes has a hard time understanding me. But my accent doesn't change. It could just get good at listening to John. But my understanding is it's not, it's just running the global voice recognition model. I'm guessing it's the same for ElevenLabs where you're running the global voice recognition model. But again, you have an accent. If you walked up to someone in a coffee shop and said two words, they might have a hard time understanding it because they're not putting it through their Mati Polish accent filter. Where's this going with actually interpreting the person that you know to exist on the other side?…
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