New Models and the Future of Voice AI | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs Summit Warsaw 2026

Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski opens the ElevenLabs Summit in Warsaw with the company's story, two brand-new model unveilings, and a look at where voice AI goes next. Explore ElevenLabs → https://elevenlabs.io/?utm_source=you... From the stage of Teatr Wielki — the Polish National Opera — Mati traces ElevenLabs back to its beginnings, where he and co-founder Piotr Dabkowski grew up in the suburbs of Warsaw and built the company's first human-like voice model. He lays out the founding belief that communication, not raw intelligence, is the real bottleneck for AI, and how the team tackles that across research, product, and deployment. The keynote includes two firsts. Dubbing v2 is introduced as the first end-to-end dubbing model, with a new fused architecture that conditions on the original audio so the emotion and performance carry into every language — demoed live across a Super Bowl commercial. Mati then shares an exclusive first preview of Eleven v4, the next text-to-speech model, with samples in English and Polish that whisper, sing, and shift emotion mid-sentence. He closes with a live conversational AI agent that books a trip end-to-end while narrating a tour of the opera house in the cloned voice of legendary Polish actor Piotr Fronczewski, and looks at the companies already building on this — from Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest telco, to LOT Polish Airlines — and why Poland sits at the centre of the story. Explore ElevenLabs → https://elevenlabs.io/?utm_source=you... Join the Community • Discord –   / discord   • Reddit –   / elevenlabs   Links & Resources • ElevenLabs – https://elevenlabs.io/?utm_source=you... • Docs & API – https://elevenlabs.io/docs/?utm_sourc... • Blog – https://elevenlabs.io/blog/?utm_sourc... • Building with the API? Subscribe to ElevenLabs Developers →    / @elevenlabsdevs   Connect with ElevenLabs • Subscribe – https://www.youtube.com/@elevenlabsio... • Instagram –   / elevenlabsio   • TikTok –   / elevenlabs   • X – https://x.com/elevenlabsio Explore ElevenLabs → https://elevenlabs.io/?utm_source=you... About ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is the leading AI voice platform for ultra-realistic, context-aware speech generation. Creators, developers, and enterprises use our tools to design voices, dub content, and build expressive AI video and audio workflows.