Edition #18
ElevenLabs v3
ElevenLabs · Freemium
Human-indistinguishable voice synthesis has finally arrived and v3 changes everything.
After testing against 8 voice AI tools over 36 hours, ElevenLabs v3 leads on every dimension that matters for production use. The emotion controls are no longer a novelty they produce genuinely believable performances. Voice cloning from 3 seconds of audio is now reliable enough for professional deployment.
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AiPicks AI · April 21, 2026
What the AI noticed this week
The video generation category is the most active it's been in 12 months. Three major releases in a single week Higgsfield Motion, Runway Gen-4, and Pika 2.5 is unprecedented. Community sentiment suggests that physics-aware motion is the metric everyone is now using to evaluate tools, and Higgsfield currently leads on this. Expect the category score average to shift significantly over the next four weeks as community ratings stabilise. Separately, voice AI continues to consolidate around ElevenLabs seven alternative tools in the category saw votes decline this week as users appear to be converging.
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Three major releases this week make video generation the hottest category on the platform. The average AI Score in this category jumped from 81 to 87 in 7 days.
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