AI Content Localization for Creators

ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers

Hacker News · tkgally · Posted October 11, 2023 · Reviewed September 1, 2026

“Aside from some pacing problems, the voice and intonation sound quite good to me. But anyone listening to the translation alone would find it hard to follow, as the tool seems to have mistranscribed some of my English and mistranslated some of the rest.”

This is the rarest witness in the corpus: a creator who ran the tool on a video he made himself, in a target language he reads, so he could check the output instead of admiring it. He is the reason to read the entry above with suspicion. Its promise is that voice survives localization; he reports that the voice was the part that worked and the meaning was the part that broke. Three reservations, and none of them are small. He is trying a product announcement, not asking for a tool, so nothing here is a purchase. This is a comment inside that thread rather than a post of his own, and the link above lands on the comment. And it is by three years the oldest thread in this corpus, aimed at a tool that has shipped continuously since, so his result should be assumed stale until someone repeats it. The one reply he drew disputes him, and blames his own fast delivery rather than the transcription.