Bringing voice AI into the classroom with ElevenLabs

This ElevenLabs article focuses on two new initiatives bringing voice AI into educational settings. The first is the Impact Program x Professors, which aims to lower the barrier for professors and students to use ElevenLabs in the classroom, in research, and in projects. ElevenLabs states that more than 100 educators from institutions such as Harvard, NYU, Cornell, and UCL are already using its technology in teaching, coursework, and research; the new program will provide professors with a free Pro tier and allow them to grant students time-limited access for specific courses or projects. The applications listed in the article include teaching material narration, accessibility assistance tools, conversational AI tutors, and voice-centric interactive learning experiences. The article also mentions several case studies: UCL's Carolyn McGettigan uses ElevenLabs for research related to the meaning of voice, synthetic speech, and vocal identity; Stanford's Daniel Rubin uses it for conversational AI systems and voice-enabled educational interfaces; and Harvard Kennedy School's Sharad Goel has developed an interactive learning tool that lets students ask questions within educational videos and receive answers in the instructor's voice. The second initiative is a collaboration between ElevenLabs, CMG Worldwide, and the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to recreate Albert Einstein's voice and turn his writings and ideas into an interactive learning experience. Einstein's voice will appear in the ElevenReader app, allowing users to listen to books, papers, and articles such as "Relativity: The Special and the General Theory"; it will also appear in an Einstein AI Agent built with ElevenLabs Agents, where users can ask questions in real time, explore scientific concepts, and engage with Einstein's ideas conversationally. The article also explains that these experiences support multiple languages, including English, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. Overall, this is not a single model or technical paper but a product and impact program in which ElevenLabs pushes its voice generation, voice agents, and Iconic Voices product lines into education, research, and content accessibility scenarios.