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How You Deliver Words Matters More Than What AI Says | Alex Holt
Nov 12, 2026
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ElevenLabs Field CTO Alex Holt breaks down their major Eleven Eleven Summit launches, including the new Interaction Engine, agent orchestration, and the NVIDIA Nemotron partnership. He explains why voice delivery is the hardest bottleneck in enterprise AI and forecasts that voice agents will replace traditional IVR by the end of next year. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS: X | https://twitter.com/MTSlive YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763 Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@mts.now – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs - AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. https://neon.com/mts Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX , the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. https://arena.ai/ AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Clickhouse - The real-time database that keeps up with all of it. https://clickhouse.com/ – Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:09) ElevenLabs Summit Major Product Announcements (02:23) Orchestrating Multi-Agent Enterprise Workflows (04:57) Closing the Enterprise Deployment Gap (07:08) Why Voice Agents Are So Hard (10:25) Building the Technical Interaction Engine (11:25) When Voice Agents Become the Norm (15:05) Transforming Healthcare With Scribe V3 – Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear.