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Formzed has joined the ElevenLabs Grants program
ElevenLabs now gives Formzed's AI interviewer its voice and turns spoken answers into text as people talk, and every study can pick a female or male interviewer.
Formzed team
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We're glad to share that Formzed has been accepted into the ElevenLabs Grants program for startups. ElevenLabs makes some of the most natural AI voices available, and from today they speak for Formzed's AI interviewer and listen to the people it talks to. Here is what changes in your voice interviews, and what stays the same.
What changes in a voice interview
AI Research interviews can run as a voice conversation or a video call, where the interviewer asks each question out loud and the participant answers by speaking. Both halves of that conversation now run on ElevenLabs.
- The interviewer's questions are spoken by ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, a voice model built for real-time conversation, so a question starts playing moments after it's written.
- Spoken answers are turned into text by ElevenLabs Scribe as the participant talks. The words appear on screen while they speak, and the interviewer reads them when they pause.
- Follow-up questions, summaries and the study report still come from Claude, as before.
Pick the interviewer's voice
When you set up a study, the Interview section now has an Interviewer voice choice: female or male. Click either one to hear it say “Welcome to Formzed” before you decide. You can change it later in the study's settings, and studies made before today keep the female voice.
Where the audio goes
The participant's microphone audio streams from their browser straight to ElevenLabs to be turned into text, and Formzed keeps the text. Voice conversations are never recorded; video calls are recorded only when you turn recording on, and participants are told before they start.
ElevenLabs is listed with our other subprocessors on the security page, and model training on our data is switched off in our ElevenLabs account.
If ElevenLabs is ever unavailable, interviews carry on with Deepgram's voices and transcription, so a study never stops halfway.
Thank you to the ElevenLabs team for backing Formzed. If you run customer interviews, try a voice conversation study and listen to the interviewer for yourself.