According to ElevenLabs (@elevenlabsio) and Forbes, ElevenLabs is emerging as a major competitor in the AI voice sector, challenging established leaders such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI (source: Forbes via ElevenLabs Twitter, Dec 1, 2025). The profile highlights how co-founders Mat Stanis and Piotr Dabkowski built ElevenLabs into a company that leverages advanced AI audio technology to deliver highly natural text-to-speech solutions. The article emphasizes the evolution of AI audio tools, which now offer creators and businesses intuitive, interactive, and scalable voice generation capabilities. This trend is driving new business opportunities across content creation, customer service automation, and digital media localization, as organizations seek more authentic, human-like AI voices for global engagement (source: Forbes, 2025).