Skyrocket Adds ElevenLabs Voice to Plai Line

Toymake Skyrocket has partnered with speech company ElevenLabs to use ElevenLabs' text-to-speech and AI voice generation services in Skyrocket's new line of AI-powered toys, called PLAi.

The first item to launch from PLAi is " Poe, the AI Story Bear," a teddy bear that offers kids a one-of-a-kind story-creating and storytelling experience. Poe the AI Story Bear uses OpenAI's ChatGPT4o to create customized stories based on ideas that kids can input by selecting from colorful icons into the Poe AI Story Creator app. Once a story is created, Poe magically comes to life to read the story aloud.

ElevenLabs' AI speech software gives Poe a lifelike voice that is contextually aware, with vocal emotion and rich intonation. And, using ElevenLabs' multilingual audio capabilities, Poe can tell stories in more than 20 languages and engage with kids around the world.

"We are thrilled to work with ElevenLabs to bring to life Poe the AI Story Bear, and to also be our voice partner for all the products in our PLAi brand," said Nelo Lucich, co-founder and CEO of Skyrocket, in a statement. "We are on the brink of a disruptive and ground-breaking technology that enables amazing features and capabilities in products and services that were not conceivable even a year ago.  There are limitless opportunities to integrate these technologies into the world. We are excited to have the most cutting edge, realistic AI voice technology in the world powering our PLAi products and making Poe the AI Story Bear and other products in our PLAi brand extraordinary and lifelike."

"We are excited to see this new and innovative use of our AI voice technology," said Mati Staniszewski, CEO of ElevenLabs, in a statement "Our partnership with Skyrocket is helping further our mission of making content accessible in any language and voice, now for bedtime stories around the world."