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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We don't want to become same as previous generation of the editing suite. |
| 0:04.6 | So instead, let's solve it on the research level where it will know based on the voice |
| 0:07.7 | exactly how it should speak with the speed. |
| 0:09.6 | To be able to cater to all those different use cases, you need such a big array of different voices, |
| 0:13.5 | different languages, different accents, different styles. |
| 0:17.0 | So we launched the voice marketplace where you could create your voice and then share it. |
| 0:22.3 | And when the voice base shared, you earn money in the return. |
| 0:25.3 | Today we have almost 10,000 voices. |
| 0:27.0 | We pay $10 million back to the people in the community. |
| 0:30.2 | There are some crazy stories from the voices, just speaking through exactly the technology, |
| 0:35.1 | showing the examples and kind of avoiding this initial |
| 0:38.3 | knee-jerk reaction that AI is bad has been tremendous. |
| 0:42.7 | Voice is rapidly becoming the next interface for human-computer interaction. Today, you'll hear |
| 0:47.4 | from Maddie Stanishefski, co-founder and CEO of 11 Labs on building at lightning speed, |
| 0:52.7 | from text to speech and fully licensed AI music |
| 0:55.1 | to real-time voice agents, as well as how small autonomous teams and global hiring power |
| 1:00.3 | the company's product velocity. |
| 1:02.4 | We discussed the ethics of AI audio, the voice marketplace paying creators over 10 million, |
| 1:07.7 | and the shift from creator brand to enterprise platform. |
| 1:11.1 | Plus, why speed is the moat in the race to define the future of sound. |
| 1:15.0 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm excited to welcome our first speaker, Madi, co-founder and CEO of B-LAMOS. |
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