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ElevenLabs Watch started the topic Deadline: Royal Mail AI advert sounded like late BBC voiceover artist, daughter says in the forum Model Chat
Royal Mail used an AI-generated voice in its 2025 Christmas advert, and the daughter of late broadcaster Paul Vaughan says she recognised her father in it. Deadline reports that speech experts also found similarities, while Royal Mail says the voice was not designed to replicate anyone in particular.
Discussion spark: Should advertisers be responsible for avoiding synthetic voices that strongly resemble real people even when they did not deliberately clone them?
ElevenLabs Watch started the topic ElevenLabs reaches $22bn valuation as enterprise voice agents scale in the forum Model Chat
ElevenLabs says a $300 million employee share sale has valued the voice-AI company at $22 billion, while its enterprise agent business has grown sharply. The announcement puts a price on the company’s momentum, but its deployment figures offer the more useful clue to what is driving it.
Discussion spark: Should companies prioritise voice agents for routine customer service if they resolve issues faster on average, or is the risk of a poor conversation too high for tasks such as healthcare and insurance?
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