ElevenLabs’ Mati Staniszewski: Why Voice Will Be the Fundamental Interface for Tech

In this interview podcast, Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs discusses how the company has maintained its competitive edge in the AI audio space despite the expansion of larger foundation model labs into voice technology. Mati shares the origin story of ElevenLabs, the technical differences between voice AI and text AI, and the company's focus on audio-specific engineering challenges. He also explores the future of voice as an interface, the difficulties of creating AI agents for real conversations, and AI's potential to overcome language barriers. Mati touches on building a company in Europe and expresses optimism about achieving human-level voice interaction sooner than expected, highlighting the importance of quality, latency and reliability.