Perplexity launches AI voice assistant using ElevenLabs

Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine that delivers a single, comprehensive answer instead of a list of links. With their new AI assistant, Perplexity now goes beyond search to take actions on your behalf — drafting emails, setting reminders, and booking reservations.

And Perplexity isn’t just improving our search results, they’re also fundamentally rethinking how we search. Users can now search, ask follow-up questions, and receive answers completely hands-free from ElevenLabs voices. 

When driving, cooking, walking, or when your hands are otherwise occupied, having an AI voice assistant is essential. Even when your hands are free, voice makes asking follow-up questions, clarifications, and refinements feel conversational rather than transactional.

For complex topics, hearing information spoken can improve comprehension compared to reading text, especially when you're multitasking or on the move.

Perplexity uses ElevenLabs to power their AI voice assistant

Booking restaurant reservations while on the go in a new city

When exploring a new city, you want to be appreciating your surroundings, not looking through a list of restaurant options.

Scheduling meetings and drafting emails on your behalf

You can talk three times faster than you can type - or better yet, you can let Perplexity do the typing for you.

Finding recipe alternatives while cooking

When you’re making a new recipe and need advice on substitutions, it’s better to ask aloud than typing with messy hands. 

Perplexity is leveraging our expansive voice library to give users the ability to find a voice they like - with specially selected options for each language and regional accent. Three of the most popular today are Liam, Daniel, and Matilda — though you may find them by different names in the app.

Building voice-first assistants

We believe Perplexity's voice assistant represents the next frontier in human-computer interaction, where technology understands, responds, and acts through natural conversation. 

As voice-first AI becomes the expected standard, developers now have unprecedented opportunities to build their own intelligent assistants using ElevenLabs' Text to Speech and Conversational AI. Tools that once required specialized expertise are now accessible, enabling anyone to create AI companions with natural-sounding voices.