There's something horribly wrong with the Russian one. The first example "Jessica | Tell History", is British woman speaking British English transliterated from Russian. It's absolute murder of the Russian language and painful to listen to.

The second example "Jessica | Record a commercial" is perfect. Confidence restored.

The third example "Laura | Help a client" is back to glass in your ears. This time an American is speaking American English transliterated from Russian.

Yikes. You all need to fix this as it's a complete embarrassment. Either there's a bug in your configuration (I hope) or your evals from Russian are rotten to the core.

Romanian sounds awful too, like the TTSes from 15 years ago.

can you try with a Romanian voice?

I'm not sure what you mean. I chose Romanian from the language selector and tried Matilda, Alice and Laura. Laura actually sounds like an English TTS trying to pronounce Romanian.

Exactly the same thing with Bulgarian voices.

It should work well for the logged in voices here: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?language=ro

We are in the process of updated the homepage voices for the new languages

It does, indeed. Thanks for looking into it.

It's a research preview for now but it should work well in 70+ languages. Voices make a big difference, can you try with a few Russian IVCs?

Just two weeks ago we tried Russian on v2 for a quick kids medical education video.

About 1/4 prompt samples wouldn't work but instead did one of the following:

- Put a random long pause somewhere in the clip and play the other syllables at 10x speed with the remaining space left in the clip - Stop reading the prompt and start talking in literal simlish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4nfveKW5s - Screaming, as in full goat screaming. Not even our resident AI evangelists could defend that one.

I tried Italian and Greek and the examples range from "acceptable" to "lol wtf"