28 September 2026

ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 speech model - more than 90 languages and voice cloning from 10 seconds of audio

ElevenLabs released Eleven v4, a new text-to-speech model, along with a faster v4 Turbo variant for voice agents, whose time to first audio is about 150 milliseconds (median), according to the company. Both models support more than 90 languages, up from 70 in the previous version, and 10 seconds of audio is enough to clone a voice. The models are already available in ElevenLabs services and via the API.

ElevenLabs ↗ TechCrunch ↗

From recent days

DoorDash will let you order food by text and start drone deliveries in California

DoorDash announced ordering by text message: just write something like "order my usual," and an AI assistant will pick the restaurant, fill the cart and complete the payment in the same conversation. For now, iOS users in the US can only join a waitlist. The company also named the first location for DoorDash Air drone deliveries, in Northern California, but without a launch date. In November, it will expand doorstep pickup of returns and delivery to stores, for $7.99, to the entire US.

The Verge ↗

Apple to unveil HomePad on October 13 - a 6-inch screen and a design reminiscent of the iMac G4

Apple will introduce its smart home hub, code-named HomePad, on October 13, Bloomberg reports. The device is expected to have a 6-inch screen and a design inspired by the iMac G4, and to debut alongside a HomePod mini in new colors and a new Apple TV 4K with Siri AI support.

9to5Mac ↗

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 - more than 30 percent faster at the same price per token

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, which according to the company generates responses more than 30 percent faster than Sonnet 5. The price stays the same ($2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens), but the model uses fewer tokens, so most tasks should cost up to 30 percent less. On the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding benchmark it scored 70.6 percent, compared with 10.3 percent for its predecessor and 66.4 percent for the more expensive Opus 5.5. The model is already available in the Claude apps, via the API and on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and Haiku 5.5 is due in the coming weeks.

Anthropic ↗ CNBC ↗ 9to5Mac ↗

All news →