Harvey + Elevenlabs Partner For Legal AI Audio

Harvey, the legal AI productivity platform, has partnered with ElevenLabs, one of the world’s leading audio AI companies. The first phase of the deal will allow Harvey to ‘deliver answers audibly in almost any language or dialect’ to its users. Future developments will introduce ‘multi-lingual voice translation, voice mode, spoken trial simulations, and tone customization’. (As illustrated above, via GPT-5, of course.)

Although the multiple language capabilities will be very useful, AL is guessing that voice mode, i.e. interacting primarily via one’s own voice, will be the one that lawyers really enjoy the most. After all, who doesn’t want to order an AI to ‘mark-up that contract!’.

The company stated that ‘powered by ElevenLabs’ Text to Speech and Speech to Text, Harvey will make legal knowledge more accessible and human across jurisdictions and cultures’. And given Harvey’s goal to operate around the world – and it’s making good progress there already – such a capability will be useful.

Commenting on the move, Winston Weinberg, CEO at Harvey, said: ‘This partnership makes legal AI more global, accessible, and human. We’re ensuring every lawyer can engage with Harvey in their own language and context.’

Mati Staniszewski, CEO of ElevenLabs, added: ‘Our mission has always been to break down language barriers. By bringing Harvey’s legal intelligence to voice, in dozens of dialects and accents, we are helping transform how law is experienced globally.’

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Harvey will be at Legal Innovators New York next week on Nov 19 and 20

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Is this a big deal? Well, first it underlines Harvey’s willingness to form partnerships wherever it helps. We’ve had the LexisNexis legal research deal and also an alliance with Blue Owl to help support work in the alternative asset management area, for example. No doubt there will be many more such partnerships.

More broadly, does this deal give Harvey an advantage? As noted, they want to be truly global and now have clients from New York to London, and from Mumbai to Sydney, so having this multi-lingual, voice capability makes sense and supports that goal.

Also as noted, once they roll-out a truly interactive voice capability – (and how that will work remains to be seen, so too the expected date) – it could prove to be very popular.

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Note: if you’d like to know more about Harvey and many other pioneering legal tech companies, then come along to Legal Innovators New York next week on Nov 19 and 20. 

The event is over two days, Day One: law firms, and Day Two: inhouse – and you are very welcome to take part in both to hear the latest insights about our increasingly AI-driven legal world and network with some of the most innovative law firms, ALSPs, tech companies, and corporates in America and beyond.

If you’d like to take the speedy boarding route to Legal Innovators New York, on Nov 19 and 20, then please sign up here – which is free to attend for those at law firms and inhouse.

See you there!