Thor 雷神

I’ve joined Google DeepMind to help developers build their wildest dreams with Gemini ✨ Eleven years ago I interned with the Maps for Work team in London. Excited to be back in the Google family working with amazing people on incredible dev tooling. Time to build! 🔨

This is just the start, plenty of more tutorials coming soon! What's your biggest challenge with building and deploying agents? Let me know! 👇

Last week @bolt.new brought the World's Largest Hackathon winners to New York to see their apps featured in Times Square. We invited @serg.tech, the Voice AI Challenge winner, to our office to share their experience adding a conversational cooking agent into their app.

Introducing the ElevenLabs Kotlin SDK Add conversational agents to your Android apps in minutes. Demo and docs links below:

Introducing the ElevenLabs React Native SDK Build cross-platform conversational AI agents for iOS and Android in minutes. WebRTC and first-class @expo.dev support built in. Docs links below:

Introducing the ElevenLabs Swift SDK 2.0 & Voice UI Starter Kit Add Conversational AI to your visionOS, macOS, and iOS apps in minutes. Built with: • ElevenLabs Swift SDK 2.0 (powered by WebRTC) • SwiftUI + drop-in Xcode template / components Docs and repo links below:

We’ve built a new CLI for managing conversational agents as code. It brings version control, programmability, and deeper integration into your existing workflows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNOq...

Thank you singaporeglobalnetwork.gov.sg for the Spotlight feature! 🫶 Incredibly grateful to be able to call Singapore home for almost six years now, and be part of this awesome international community. 🇸🇬♥️ go.thor.bio/sgn

Did you know you can use your iPhone as a wireless webcam?! 📹 I’ve been travelling a lot lately and been looking to level up my on-the-road video production quality. Paired with a compact tripod and LED light this setup is pretty neat! 👍

DX meets Vibe Coding! ✅ @thorweb.dev Schaeff (Developer Experience, ElevenLabs) takes DevRelCon into the future with “DX for Humans and Machines: Redefining Developer Experience in the Age of Vibe Coding.” #DevRelCon #DevRel #DX #AI #VibeCoding #ElevenLabs

Introducing 11ai - the AI personal assistant that's voice-first and supports MCP. This is an experiment to show the potential of Conversational AI: 1. Plan your day and add your tasks to Notion 2. Use Perplexity to research a customer 3. Search and create Linear issues youtu.be/HOg8jPLTwLI

Introducing Eleven v3 (alpha) - the most expressive Text to Speech model ever. Supporting 70+ languages, multi-speaker dialogue, and audio tags such as [excited], [sighs], [laughing], and [whispers]. Now in public alpha and 80% off in June.

still thinking what to build in the @elevenlabs.io & @expo.dev meetup next friday in taipei. would try to be as much fun as possible. if you are around taipei next week, join us with the legendary @thorweb.dev

Give wind.surf a voice using the ElevenLabs MCP server. @asjes.dev walks you through configuring and using our MCP server inside Windsurf.

Need an easy way to build and deploy custom tools for your conversational AI agents? @buildship.com just launched buildship.tools, a platform that helps you do exactly that. E.g. connect your agent to Linear to generate conversational changelogs. go.thor.bio/buildship-to...

Is this what they call an MCP Surfer?! 🏄

“Text to bark” canine model. Very serious #AI research conducted by @thorweb.dev at @elevenlabs.io

Introducing the open-source Next.js Audio Starter Kit Add Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Sound Effects and Conversational AI to your product in minutes. Built with: • ElevenLabs SDK • Next.js + shadcn/ui • Tailwind CSS v4 Repo link below:

Had an awesome time sharing about @elevenlabs.io with the AI builder community in Kuala Lumpur, #Malaysia this week 🇲🇾🔥 Huge thanks to GDG KL and AI Tinkerers KL for having me! Incredibly inspiring to hear what everyone is working on! 🚀 Hope to be back soon!

Who's in town for #Stripe #Sessions? Join us on May 8th to nerd out about AI audio! 🤓👇

🗣️ Build a voice agent that works everywhere — iOS, Android, and web — with realistic voices and native functionality. Start with 𝝠 Expo + @elevenlabs.io and create a conversational UI that feels seamless across platforms. ✍️ Blog from @thorweb.dev: expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

Transcribe audio with ElevenLabs.

The team at @elevenlabs.io is growing! Are you in San Francisco and want to help #developers build the most engaging #AI #audio experiences? We want to hear from you! go.thor.bio/eleven-devre...

I'll be giving a workshop on building #Conversational AI agents at scale using @elevenlabs.io at apidays.global #Singapore next week! Want to join? Use my code "IKNOWTHORSTENSCHAEFF" at checkout for a complimentary ticket! Register here 👇 go.thor.bio/apidays-sg-t...

It's my newsletter's EIGHTH year anniversary! ❤️ 🚀 8️⃣ Come join in for giveaways and coupons (and jokes and useful links and practice coding questions and mooore)! cassidoo.co/newsletter/

Meet KUBI, the conversational robot barista and receptionist at secondspace.dev. As the first point of contact for members, KUBI plays a key role in creating a warm and engaging experience. That's why Second Space chose Conversational AI — to add a unique, friendly touch.

Twilio just launched ElevenLabs voices in ConversationRelay. Now developers can easily combine expressive, human-like voices with Twilio's CPaaS platform to launch voice agents at scale. Start building with ElevenLabs and ConversationRelay today: elevenlabs.io/blog/twilio-...