# ElevenLabs — Introducing Eleven v4, our most emotive model

- Company: ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io)
- Announced: 2026-09-28T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v4
- Record: https://forck.live/items/14660-introducing-eleven-v4-our-most-emotive-model
- Subject: Voice AI
- Models affected: Eleven v4, Eleven v4 Turbo

ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4, a text-to-speech model designed to interpret tone, pacing, emotion, character, and context, alongside a low-latency variant Eleven v4 Turbo with median inference latency of ~100ms. Both models support over 90 languages, improved voice cloning with 10 seconds of audio, and more accurate audio tags and direction prompts. The company states Eleven v4 was ranked #1 by Artificial Analysis and preferred by ~75% of listeners in blind tests over competing models.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v4:

> Built on an entirely new architecture, Eleven v4 is our most emotive Text to Speech model ranked #1 by Artificial Analysis. Eleven v4 Turbo brings that same technology to low-latency use cases like agents. With a median inference latency of ~100ms, it can respond faster than the average pause between two people talking.

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