Piotr Dąbkowski is the co-founder and CTO / research leader of ElevenLabs, the AI audio company building text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, speech-to-text, and conversational audio products. At ElevenLabs, he leads research and engineering teams developing advanced AI audio models. Before co-founding the company, Piotr worked on machine learning at Google and studied for an MPhil at the University of Cambridge, where he published AI research at NeurIPS. He co-founded ElevenLabs with fellow Polish founder Mati Staniszewski after seeing how poor dubbing limited access to global media.
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ElevenLabsPiotr DabkowskiPiotr is the cofounder of ElevenLabs, where he leads research and engineering teams developing the world’s most advanced AI audio models. Before ElevenLabs, Piotr worked on machine learning at Google and studied for an MPhil at the University of Cambridge, during which he published research into AI-based image detection at NeurIPS.
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Piotr combines deep machine-learning research experience with a founder insight rooted in multilingual media access: making content available in any language and voice. His background at Google and Cambridge, plus his leadership of ElevenLabs’ research and engineering teams, directly maps to the company’s frontier AI audio and voice-synthesis market.