ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski on the company's origin story, which starts with the poorly-dubbed Polish movies he grew up watching: "I was at Palantir, so I was helping build optimization models and bringing them to the customers. And my co-founder was at Google, and he did a lot of the text models for knowledge graphs." "He's the smartest person I know for developing a lot of the research work, and I was happily on that intersection of building the product and bringing that to the customers." "When we started, that was the whole goal, can we combine research and product deployment under one hood?" "We started with audio. The actual trigger point comes from where you're from, from Poland. If you watch a movie in Polish... you have one voice narrating the whole movie. All the emotional intonation disappears." "Everybody in Poland grows up with it. One person dubbing. And then in 2021, we experienced this still happening... The quality is poor. It's a pretty terrible experience." "In the future, that experience will be completely different. You will have original voice, original emotions, original intonation." "Just a week ago, we released finally a model that is able to do that extremely well and finally bring the content from one language to another." @mati w/ @davidsenra(a16z)