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Ryan Morrison
@ryanmorrison.bsky.social
Growth @ ElevenLabs. I write content and tell stories. Prev AI Editor for Tom’s Guide, also BBC, Daily Mail, New Statesman and Tech Monitor. ryanm@elevenlabs.io
My new Game - Mars Commander - is now live on the App Store. An idle clicker that put you in charge of a Mars Colony. apps.apple.com/us/app/mars-...
March 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I've been at @elevenlabs.io nearly two months now. I still keep typing ElvenLabs instead of ElevenLabs. So I made this.

A year ago character animation like this, even just simple lip synching wasn't really possible in any realistic way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-oa...
March 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Reposted by Ryan Morrison
Voice speed controls are now available in ElevenLabs TTS, Studio, Conversational AI, and our API.

Pacing completely changes the delivery of spoken word.

You can now control pace down to the word level, giving you more control over the expressiveness of your dialogue.
March 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
What is reality?
March 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
To see how easy it is to work with I created a simple transcriber app using Scribe. Only works with mp3, you need an API key and max duration 3 mins.
February 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reposted by Ryan Morrison
Introducing Scribe — the most accurate Speech to Text model.

It has the highest accuracy on benchmarks, making it the leading model for English, Spanish, Italian, and many more. With support for 99 languages, speaker diarization, character-level timestamps, and non-speech events such as laughing.
February 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I deleted Grammarly from Chrome. It is very useful as a writing aid but its constant interruptions to my workflow make it needier than Duolingo and more annoying than Clippy. The trade-off between benefit and annoyance is no longer worth it.
February 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by Ryan Morrison
Happy Valentine's Day 🫶

Send special voice notes to your loved ones.

Built with lovable.dev 💛 @supabase.com 💚 and @elevenlabsio.bsky.social 🖤
February 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We’ve raised a $180M Series C to give every AI agent a voice.

The past year has been about building the foundations of AI audio - now we’re focused on making speech the standard for how we interact with technology.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPj...
ElevenLabs - Text to Speech, Dubbing, Sound Effects and more
YouTube video by ElevenLabs
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is an amazing use of AI voice technology. ThisGen.ai uses @elevenlabsio.bsky.social voice technology to train emergency dispatchers on a range of scenarios elevenlabs.io/blog/ai-voic...
ElevenLabs AI voices helping train 911 dispatchers | ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs AI voices are helping ThisGen.ai train 911 emergency dispatchers to handle a range of calls and scenarios.
elevenlabs.io
January 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Reposted by Ryan Morrison
We’ve done a complete re-write of our /docs

Key improvements include:
- Conversational AI agent to guide you through the docs
- Quickstart guides for each model
- Best practices for prompting the models
- Interactive API playground

Making it much quicker to get started building with ElevenLabs
January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Career change news!

On my way into the office for my first day with ElevenLabs to help tell the AI voice lab’s story.
January 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Every time I see the words 'government' and 'action plan' attached to anything my instinct says 'nothing is going to happen'.

When a government launches an action plan it tends to be a way of saying "we don't know what to do about this".

Or maybe I'm just cynical.
January 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In my latest verses, I put Grok up against MetaAI in a 7-round face-off. I used the same categories I've used in previous tests. It wasn't a test of Llama, but rather of the Meta dot AI service versus Grok in X.

Grok won in every category. www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-put-gro...
I put Grok vs MetaAI in a 7-round face-off — here's the winner
The social side of AI chatbots
www.tomsguide.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A bit of a departure from AI. My debut (albeit self published) novel is now out on Amazon. amzn.to/40nxoX2

Called Dust Born, it is a super powered sci-fi story about a space dust cloud that forever changed humanity.
Dust Born: The Rise of the Gifted Generation
Dust Born: The Rise of the Gifted Generation eBook : Morrison, Ryan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.to
January 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Wish I had more than just my iPhone with me last night. Venus and the moon were spectacular
January 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I think the difference between Elon Musk and other billionaires is that he’s blatant and public about his manipulation attempts.
January 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I am trying to get my brain to fire the writing synapse. I don't mean a quick post on Bluesky, but the one that lets me string multiple sentences together for a story.

My usual tricks aren't working.
December 31, 2024 at 1:36 PM
I built an AI stand-up comedian. You give it a prompt and it generates a standup routine, voices using ElevenLabs Flash v2. Takes under a minute.

I gave it a face with Hedra although that isn't part of the app — yet. Details, GitHub: ryanmorrison.uk/creating-an-... youtu.be/Ar1NKg5a2-E
AI Comedian — Brits in Space
YouTube video by Adventures in AI Land
youtu.be
December 29, 2024 at 3:40 PM
That wonderful time between Christmas and New Year
December 27, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Work continues on my AI comedian app. I'll have a downloadable version and Github repo in the next day or two (as I've got some time off work).

Here is one of the routines. Voice is ElevenLabs and lip-sync is Hedra with an Ideogram image. youtu.be/OlQhjHTZicc
December 23, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Here is v1 of Dial-a-Comedian. Your own personal standup powered by ElevenLabs new Flash v2 and Groq running Meta Llama 3.3 70b.

Comedian jobs are safe.
youtu.be/8Sjo3WJIaOY
Dial-a-Comedian (simple coding project)
YouTube video by Adventures in AI Land
youtu.be
December 21, 2024 at 9:57 AM
If you want to try your hand at making AI video but didn't want to splash out on a subscription — one of the most inventive, Pika 2.0 is free until Monday.

Put yourself in the action. www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-...
Pika 2 AI video generator is completely free for the next 5 days — here’s how to try it
Burn those servers
www.tomsguide.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Call ChatGPT, or send a message from WhatsApp if you're not in the US. Dial: 1-800-CHATGPT
www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/c...
ChatGPT comes to WhatsApp — here's how to message the AI chatbot for free
This is big
www.tomsguide.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:05 PM
I've created a new AI Art section for my personal website where I'm going to share curated projects.

ryanmorrison.uk/ai-art/
December 18, 2024 at 5:36 PM