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ElevenLabs announces ElevenHacks #10 winners
ElevenLabs has announced the winners of its ElevenHacks #10 hackathon, where developers competed to build voice-enabled applications using the ElevenLabs Speech Engine. The top prize went to Oneblink, a Chrome extension that leverages on-device Gemini Nano and ElevenLabs text-to-speech to assist blind users, leading a group of winners who split nearly $8,000 in prizes.
// ANALYSIS
Voice hackathons are shifting from novelty soundboards to functional utility apps, highlighting how developers are increasingly combining local on-device models with high-quality cloud speech synthesis.
- –The first-place winner, Oneblink, demonstrates a highly viable hybrid architecture by combining fast on-device Gemini Nano inference with rich cloud-based text-to-speech.
- –Accessibility and education continue to be the strongest organic use cases for advanced voice APIs, as demonstrated by the top three projects.
- –Integrations with low-latency LLM engines like Groq highlight the growing developer demand for real-time, conversational voice experiences.
// TAGS
elevenlabshackathonspeechspeech-engineaccessibility
DISCOVERED
1h ago
2026-06-03
PUBLISHED
1h ago
2026-06-03
RELEVANCE
6/ 10
AUTHOR
ElevenLabsDevs