AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Expressive Mode for ElevenAgents
AI voice agents that adapt tone, timing & emotion by context
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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The most expressive Text to Speech model ever
2025 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Research teams trust. Conversations customers love.
2025 · getperspective.ai · its alternatives →
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AI Chat-avatar▲696Conversational AI assistant always ready do the job for you
2025 · pitchavatar.com · its alternatives →
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Luke from ElevenLabs here. We just released Scribe Realtime v2, our new real-time Speech to Text model. We rebuilt it from the ground up around a new architecture that uses predictive transcription – it anticipates the next likely word before it’s spoken. That makes it both fast (around 150 ms latency) and highly accurate. Scribe v2 Realtime outperforms every low latency transcription model across 30 commonly used EU and Asian languages – 93.5% accuracy, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash (91.4%), GPT-4o MiniTranscribe (90.7%), and Deepgram Nova 3 (85%). It supports 90+ languages including…
2025 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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ElevenLabs UI▲514Hey hn, I put together a collection of audio and agent components for Next.js built on top of ShadCN. Hope you find this useful & let me know if there’s ant feedback a (GitHub repo will be open sourced tomorrow am)
2025 · ui.elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Octave TTS▲282Describe any AI voice and prompt its emotional delivery
2025 · hume.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, this is Lina, Andrew, and Sidney from Infinity AI (https://infinity.ai/). We've trained our own foundation video model focused on people. As far as we know, this is the first time someone has trained a video diffusion transformer that’s driven by audio input. This is cool because it allows for expressive, realistic-looking characters that actually speak. Here’s a blog with a bunch of examples: https://toinfinityai.github.io/v2-launch-page/ If you want to try it out, you can either (1) go to https://studio.infinity.ai/try-inf2, or (2)…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Chat Mode▲151You can now build text-only conversational agents
2025 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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The open-source framework for real-time AI voice
2025 · videosdk.live · its alternatives →
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Hume AI's new voice that truly understands emotion
2025 · hume.ai · its alternatives →
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A multimodal agent to create, share and rehearse scenarios
2025 · toughtongueai.com · its alternatives →
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Character AI▲393Building the next generation of conversational AI
2023 · character.ai · its alternatives →
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ElevenAgents▲12Build Smart Conversational AI Voice Agents with ElevenAgents
2025 · its alternatives →
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A dedicated entry point for talking-head video
Jun 2026 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Deploy pre-built voice and chat agents for support, sales
Apr 2026 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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