#564 - VO - Mati Staniszewski - ElevenLabs - “Humans were never meant to write, but to speak.”

#564 - VO - Mati Staniszewski - ElevenLabs - “Humans were never meant to write, but to speak.”

From Génération Do It Yourself by Matthieu Stefani | Orso Media

September 5, 2026 · 2h 2m · Episode 564

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Mati Staniszewski discusses the innovative work of ElevenLabs in AI voice technology and its implications for the future of human communication.

Retrouvez l'épisode en version française ici : https://www.gdiy.fr/podcast/mati-staniszewski-vf/ ElevenLabs is an iceberg. People think it’s a startup that uses AI to generate voices, but that’s actually just the tip of the iceberg. Voice agents that can recreate the voices of throat cancer patients so they can say their wedding vows, identify signs of Parkinson’s in your voice years before a diagnosis, and above all... a staggeringly complex system of gears, invisible to the user. The thesis of Mati, its founder, is simple: writing is not the natural language of humans. Keyboards, screens, and the interfaces we’ve been using for 30 years are historical anomalies on the verge of disappearing. Just four years after its founding, ElevenLabs is already valued at over $11 billion, with $600 million in ARR and a team of more than 600 people. A European company that wants to remain European in a sector dominated by Americans. In this episode, we pull out all the stops: - Why voice will become the primary interface between humans and machines- What ElevenLabs really does: agents, healthcare, education, IP, data sovereignty- Why Mati has placed an engineer on every non-technical team…

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