# ElevenLabs Multilingual V2

> ElevenLabs Multilingual V2 is available on Artifio.ai — a unified AI workspace with a single pay-as-you-go wallet.

- Canonical page: https://artifio.ai/models/elevenlabs-text-to-speech-multilingual-v2
- Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/elevenlabs-text-to-speech-multilingual-v2
- Modality: prompt to audio
- Model brand: ElevenLabs
- Pricing: from about $0.060 per 1,000 characters (exact cost shown in the workspace before you confirm; varies with selected options)
- Typical generation time: ~30s (catalogue estimate)
- Full pricing table: https://artifio.ai/pricing/models

## About ElevenLabs Multilingual V2

ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 is the speech-synthesis model ElevenLabs shipped on 22 August 2023, the same day the company took its platform out of beta. It generates speech in 29 languages and keeps a speaker's voice characteristics, including their original accent, when the same voice reads text in different languages, so a single synthetic or cloned voice can carry an entire localization project.

ElevenLabs' documentation describes it as an emotionally aware model with high contextual understanding and recommends it for work where quality matters more than speed. On artifio.ai it runs alongside 100+ other models in one workspace, pay-per-generation, no per-model subscription.

## Features

- Speech in 29 languages, including English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, German, Hindi, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian, Arabic, Tamil, Ukrainian, and Filipino.
- Accepts up to 10,000 characters per request, which comes to roughly 10 minutes of finished audio.
- Keeps a speaker's voice characteristics and original accent across all supported languages.
- Automatically identifies the written language of the input text, per the launch announcement.
- Cloned and synthetic voices carry over between languages, so one narrator can cover a full localization catalogue.

## What people use it for

- Audiobook narration, including indie authors producing their own audio editions.
- Game localization and voicing secondary characters across language markets.
- E-learning and corporate training content delivered in each audience's language.
- Accessibility narration for visually impaired readers.

## Reported strengths

- Voice and accent consistency across 29 languages, a capability few speech models offered at its release.
- Long-form capacity: the 10,000-character request ceiling suits book chapters and lesson scripts.
- ElevenLabs' documentation describes its output as natural speech with high emotional range and contextual understanding.

## Reported limitations

- Higher latency and higher cost per character than ElevenLabs' Flash models; the company steers real-time conversational applications to its faster lines.
- Covers 29 languages, well short of the 70+ that Eleven v3 handles.
- No inline audio tags and no multi-speaker dialogue mode; those are Eleven v3 features.

## Sources

1. ElevenLabs comes out of beta and releases Eleven Multilingual v2, a foundational AI speech model for nearly 30 languages (ElevenLabs): https://elevenlabs.io/blog/elevenlabs-comes-out-of-beta-and-releases-eleven-multilingual-v2-a-foundational-ai-speech-model-for-nearly-30-languages
2. Eleven Multilingual v2 (ElevenLabs): https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-multilingual-v2
3. Models (ElevenLabs Documentation): https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/models

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