Aims to support nonprofits, educators, and frontline institutions by offering free access to ElevenLabs’ tools
New Delhi, 18 February 2026 – ElevenLabs, the global leader in AI-driven voice and audio technology, today announced the expansion of its Impact Program into India and the launch of its Impact Program × Professors initiative globally, reinforcing its commitment to inclusive, multilingual voice AI across education, healthcare, accessibility, and cultural expression. The announcement marks a deepened, long-term investment in India’s rapidly evolving AI ecosystem. The launch was announced by Mati Staniszewski, CEO and Co-founder, ElevenLabs at IIT Delhi during an event of the India AI Impact Summit along with Kanishka Narayan, MP, UK Minister for AI and Online Safety.
India, home to 22 officially recognized languages and thousands of dialects, represents one of the world’s most linguistically diverse digital ecosystems. The launch aligns with the India AI Impact Summit’s vision of advancing inclusive and responsible AI innovation across its thematic focus areas, particularly those focused on education, public service delivery, accessibility, and human-centred AI deployment. The ElevenLabs Impact Program, which already supports hundreds of nonprofits worldwide, will now expand its footprint in India by enabling voice-first access to information, learning, and care across languages and communities.
Mati Staniszewski, Co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, said, “India’s scale and linguistic diversity make it one of the most important places in the world to build voice AI that truly serves everyone. The conversations at the India AI Impact Summit reinforce a shared vision of inclusive, human-centred AI that operates at population scale. As voice becomes the most natural interface for technology, it must work across languages, abilities, and access constraints — not only in commercial settings. Through the launch of our Impact Program in India, we are putting powerful voice tools in the hands of educators, nonprofits, and frontline institutions to help more people communicate, learn, and access critical information in the languages they speak.”
A Global Commitment to Empowering One Million Voices
The ElevenLabs Impact Program has partnered with more than 450 nonprofits across over 38 countries, providing free access to its voice technology to advance accessibility, education, healthcare, voice preservation, and cultural expression. The program’s long-term goal is to enable one million voices worldwide to communicate, learn, and create without barriers.
In India, participating organizations will be able to leverage ElevenLabs’ technology to:
- Help individuals experiencing speech loss restore or recreate their personal voice identity
- Deliver expressive, multilingual learning content in low-resource and multilingual classrooms
- Support inclusive storytelling and the preservation of regional languages
- Build accessible digital experiences for people with visual, speech, or literacy barriers
Launch of ElevenLabs × Professors Program
As part of this expansion, ElevenLabs is introducing its global ElevenLabs × Professors Program to India, supporting university educators experimenting with voice AI in real classrooms. The first phase of the program will include select faculty globally, enabling professors to integrate voice AI into teaching, multilingual content creation, accessibility tools, research, and creative coursework across disciplines. Participating faculty receive access to ElevenLabs’ Pro tier and become part of a growing international educator community exploring responsible AI innovation in academia. The program is now extending an open invitation to professors across Indian universities to collaborate.
Partnering with Ally to Strengthen Mental Health Training
As part of its expanded presence in India, ElevenLabs is partnering with Ally, an organization building open-source tools to support professionals across the mental health ecosystem. Ally uses ElevenLabs’ voice technology to power realistic, AI-enabled mental health training simulations for teachers, ASHA workers, and frontline caregivers. These voice-driven simulations are designed to help scale mental health capacity while preserving human empathy, oversight, and contextual sensitivity.
“India faces a significant shortage of trained mental health professionals, particularly in rural and underserved regions,” said Kriti Krishnan, Co-Founder, Ally. “By using ElevenLabs’ voice technology to create immersive training simulations, we can help equip frontline workers with a training aid that helps build practical skills in a scalable, cost-effective way — without compromising on empathy or human judgment.”
