Blind test of 32 ElevenLabs Voice Library voices for audiobooks (125 paid listeners, 1,122 judgments): "professional" voices no better than instant clones, popularity predicts nothing, louder voices win

We needed a defensible way to pick narrator voices from the Voice Library (5,000+ English narration voices, no quality signal), so we ran a paid blind test. Setup: 32 voices stratified across gender, age, accent, tier (professional vs instant clone) and usage; the same 30-second first-person nonfic…

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1. 2026-11-11 21:40 · r/artificial
   Blind test of 32 ElevenLabs Voice Library voices for audiobooks (125 paid listeners, 1,122 judgments): "professional" voices no better than instant clones, popularity predicts nothing, louder voices win