ElevenLabs' Realtime v1 Max answers 98.8% of spoken reasoning questions
ElevenLabs launched Eleven Realtime, speech-to-speech models where each model is a complete voice agent, replacing a chain of speech recognition, an LLM and text to speech. v1 Max answered 98.8% of spoken Big Bench Audio questions and started speaking in 0.57 seconds on average; v1 Mini scored 75.9%. On tool-use tasks Max completed 87.1% against 60.3% for Mini. Its API follows OpenAI's Realtime API, so switching means changing an endpoint and model name.