Mati Staniszewski
Co-founder and CEO, ElevenLabs
Polish engineer and former Palantir deployment strategist who co-founded ElevenLabs, whose speech models are widely used for narration, dubbing, and reading tools.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues synthetic speech mainly serves reading access, dubbing, and audiobooks, not novelty voice cloning.
- Supports voice-consent checks and detection tooling as a condition of releasing cloning features.
- Says dubbing removes language as a barrier to information, and treats that as the core use case.
Accomplishments
- Co-founded ElevenLabs in 2022 with school friend Piotr Dąbkowski, after working as a Palantir deployment strategist.
- ElevenLabs speech models are widely used for narration, audiobooks, and screen-reading tools.
- Shipped the AI Dubbing product and a speech classifier for detecting ElevenLabs-generated audio.
Papers & key writings
Company research and safety notes are published on the ElevenLabs blog rather than under his own name.
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