ElevenLabs Just Gave AI Voices Real Emotion

🔥 What happened ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, its most emotive text-to-speech models yet. About 75% of listeners preferred v4 over rivals in blind head-to-head tests, and Artificial Analysis ranks it #1. 💡 Why it matters Turbo hits first speech in ~150ms — faster than the natural pause between two humans talking. That kills the old trade-off between expressive and fast that made voice agents sound robotic for years. ⚡ Our take Voice agents used to be either fast or human. ElevenLabs claims both — if it holds up, 'robotic agent' becomes a legacy insult.