ElevenLabs news and updates
9 curated updates from official ElevenLabs channels since 21 Sep 2026: 3 feature · 2 launch · 2 model · 1 pricing · 1 other. Each item links to the vendor's own post; summaries stick to what the post says.
October 2026
- ElevenLabs Instant Soundtracks turns a video into music and sound effects
The feature generates music and sound effects from a video automatically.
Source: elevenlabs.io - ElevenLabs Brand Kit applies your logo, fonts and colors automatically
Add brand assets once and every new creation pulls them in.
Source: elevenlabs.io - ElevenAgents adds Reception for small businesses and Architect for agent tuning
Reception is an AI receptionist that answers calls and books jobs; Architect drafts improvements and tests them in simulated conversations.
Source: elevenlabs.io
September 2026
- ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo
v4 brings more expressive speech and better voice cloning in 90+ languages; v4 Turbo targets real-time agents at about 100 ms median latency.
Source: elevenlabs.io - ElevenLabs opens image, video and Flows template generation to the API
Templates built in Flows can now run via the ElevenLabs API.
Source: elevenlabs.io - ElevenLabs for Students: three free months plus a free year of Reader Ultra
University students aged 18+ in the US, Canada, EU27, Australia and UK get free access to ElevenCreative, ElevenAgents and the API.
Source: elevenlabs.ioCurrent ElevenLabs plans & limits - Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro removed from ElevenLabs as OpenAI ends the Sora API
Both models stopped generating on 24 Sep; flows using a Sora node need another video model, and Seedance 1.5 Pro retires on 11 Nov.
Source: elevenlabs.io - Scribe v2 Medical speech-to-text is generally available on the API
The model is fine-tuned for clinical audio.
Source: elevenlabs.io - ElevenLabs Studio 4.0 generates video, voice, music and SFX in one editor
Edit, caption and export without leaving the project.
Source: elevenlabs.io