ElevenLabs Extends Free Voice Restoration to Music Creation, Adds NYU Langone and Wounded Warrior Project Partners
ElevenLabs announces its '1 Million Voices' program now offers free ElevenMusic access to artists with voice loss, adding two major US institutional partners.
AI audio company ElevenLabs announced on November 12, 2026, that it is expanding its '1 Million Voices' impact program from basic voice restoration to music creation. Starting immediately, individuals living with permanent voice loss can access ElevenMusic for free to compose and release music using singing voices recreated from old recordings. The initiative is part of a $1 billion in-kind commitment by ElevenLabs to restore the voices of one million people worldwide.
The update also introduces two new US-based institutional partners: NYU Langone Health and the Wounded Warrior Project. Through NYU Langone’s Rusk Rehabilitation center, patients with conditions such as ALS, head and neck cancer, or stroke can directly access personalized digital voice creation services. Simultaneously, ElevenLabs will collaborate with the Wounded Warrior Project to explore how voice AI technology can help veterans maintain communication independence and access support resources.
At the New York Summit on November 11, two beneficiaries—Greg Kellner, an educator who lost his singing voice to brain cancer, and Abdi Omar, a rap artist who never had a spoken voice due to cerebral palsy—demonstrated new tracks created using ElevenMusic. This move marks a further extension of AI voice technology in assistive applications, shifting from meeting basic communication needs to supporting creative self-expression.