ElevenLabs v3 Conversational
A variant of ElevenLabs' v3 voice model tuned for natural dialogue in conversational agents, in more than 70 languages.
v3 Conversational is a cloud text-to-speech model built by ElevenLabs. It converts written text into natural, spoken audio. It offers a choice of 21 voices and supports multiple languages. Voices can be tuned for speed, stability, and similarity, and output is available as MP3 and WAV_44100. It runs through OpenRouter and ElevenLabs using your own API key, from $0.02 per 1,000 characters.
- Released
- Aug 2026
- Pricing
- $0.02 / 1k chars
- Type
- Text-to-speech
- Voices
- 21 to choose from
- Languages
- Multilingual
- Voice controls
- Speed, Stability, Similarity
- Output formats
- MP3, WAV_44100
Samples
Generated with v3 Conversational via OpenRouter: the same three scripts read by every text-to-speech model in the catalog, so the only thing that changes between two models’ clips is the model. Each model uses its own default voice; there is no shared voice to hold constant.
Baseline naturalness and pacing
The last train had already left, but she decided to walk anyway. The city was quieter than she remembered, and for the first time in weeks, she wasn't in a hurry.
Emotion, emphasis, and pauses
Wait — you're telling me it actually worked? After all that? I can't believe it. Honestly, I thought we'd lost the whole thing.
Decimals, percentages, version numbers
The API returned 3,481 results in 0.42 seconds, a 12 percent improvement over version 2.5. Latency at the 99th percentile dropped from 840 milliseconds to 610.
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