# ElevenLabs says it can detect its own voices, does that help with other tools?

Source: https://global100.org/forum/q/elevenlabs-says-it-can-detect-its-own-voices-does-that-help-with-other/
Site: Global 100 Forum, category AI voice and audio
Published: 2026-11-12. Updated: 2026-11-13. Replies: 1.

## Question by Jules, 2026-11-12

podcaster here. i came across ElevenLabs' AI speech classifier, where you upload a clip and it tells you the probability it was made with their tech. i tried it on a couple of my own episodes and it said not AI, which is nice to see.

but now i am wondering what that actually tells me. if someone cloned my voice with a different tool, or a self-hosted open model, would a classifier built by one company catch it? and if it says "not detected" on a clip, can i treat that as "real person"?

i do a lot of audio and i would like to be able to give listeners (and my mum, who gets scam calls) a simple answer to "how do i know this is really me". is a vendor detector part of that answer, or is it more of a marketing thing?

## Reply 1 by Sam Whitlock, 2026-11-13

Vendor-owned detection is the easy case: the company knows its own model and its own artefacts, and can in principle design the output to carry a mark. Detecting audio from systems you have never seen is the hard case, and that is the one your listeners care about. Different problems, and success on the first says little about the second.

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