[drag0s]

English sounds really great, congrats! other languages I've tried doesn't sound that good, you can hear a strong english accent

[8f2ab37a-ed6c]

With Italian, it starts reading the text with an absolutely comical American accent, but then about 10-20 words in it gradually snaps into a natural Italian pronunciation and it sounds fantastic from that point on. Not sure what's going on behind the scenes, but it sounds like it starts with an en-us baseline and then somehow zones in on the one you specified. Using Alice.

[agos]

the Italian example with mixed languages is especially bad: the Italian, German Japanese and Arabic all have very very heavy english accents.

The "dramatic movie scene" ends up being comical

I tried Greek and it started speaking nonsense in english

this needs a lot more work to be sold

[dustincoates]

The French one sounded like an Alabaman who took a semester of college French.

But the English sounds really good.

[lharries]

If you're trying to make an audiobook about an Alabaman visiting Paris this might be quite useful... But in seriousness try it with this voice: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?voiceId=rbFGGoDXFHtV...

[dustincoates]

I'll give it a check. I was playing the sample on the v3 page.

[pu_pe]

For Portuguese, interestingly enough one of the voices (Liam) has a Spanish accent. Also, the language flag is from Portugal, but the style is clearly Brazilian Portuguese.

[lharries]

Can you try with a voice that was trained on that language? This research preview is more variable based on the voice chosen

[poly2it]

Swedish is just wholly American.

[k__]

German sounds okay.

[lharries]

There's lots of great german voices here which should be better: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library/collections/SHEPnUB9...

The voice selection matters a lot for this research preview

[torginus]

Not a native speaker by any stretch, but all the voices sounded like 'intercom announcer' or 'phone assistant' to me. Not natural in the slightest.

[shafyy]

I tried German in the preview box there, and it had a very strong English accent.

[k__]

I listened to a story about dragons.

It sounded okay. Only in the middle somewhere, the loudness seemed to change drastically.