# Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo

- Date: 2026-09-28
- Type: model
- Credit: ElevenLabs
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_tXR2QQ6U
- Post: https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2104572127617994917
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/eleven-v4

Eleven v4 is built on an entirely new architecture that reads a script the way a voice actor would: it knows who is speaking, what just happened and how each line should land. Direction goes straight into the script as tags like [whispers], [nervous laugh] or [door slams], and v4 follows them more reliably than v3, sound effects included, across 90+ languages and multiple speakers in one pass. Eleven v4 Turbo carries the same expressive range at about 150 ms to first speech, for real-time agents. Artificial Analysis ranked it first at launch.

For filmmakers the headline is consistency. Regenerate a line once or fifty times and it is still the same person speaking, with no vocal drift, and context stitching keeps pacing and delivery steady across a script of any length, so a long piece sounds like one take. Professional Voice Clones, missing from v3, are back with the full emotional range. ElevenLabs had voiced AI films since the first Gen-2 shorts; v4 turns it from a line reader into something closer to a cast you can direct.

Links:
- ElevenLabs: Meet Eleven v4: https://elevenlabs.io/v4
- Announcement on X: https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2104572127617994917

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/eleven-v4
Era: 2026 · The Shakeout
Last updated: 2026-09-29