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baghdasaryana··on Why Voice Startups Should Ditch ElevenLabs Before It Ditches Them
You can’t get a cryptographic guarantee, but you can look at three concrete signals:

Incentives.

    ElevenLabs has VC-scale funding and a “own the whole voice stack” narrative to justify it. Moving up into agents grows their TAM. Async is tiny, margin-driven infra. If they jump into end-user agents they’d start competing with (and losing) their own customers. Wrong game theory.
Portability.

    Their SDK is just a thin SSML/gRPC wrapper. It swaps out for Coqui / Azure / local models by changing an ENV var and rebuilding a Docker image. No proprietary DSL, no special voice-clone formats. Easy exits keep vendors honest.
Track record & roadmap.

    ElevenLabs is already shipping agent UIs. Async’s public roadmap stops at “more voices + lower latency.” If they suddenly pivot up-stack, the diff will be obvious months in advance and you can unplug.
TL;DR: nobody’s bullet-proof, but Async’s incentives and architecture make rug-pulling a lot less rational—and a lot easier to escape from—than betting everything on ElevenLabs. Keep an abstraction layer and always have a second TTS plugged in; problem solved.
baghdasaryana··on Zoosp: The Chrome Extension for Sports Fans
Zoosp covers only football matches right now. However, support for wide range of sports and events, including basketball, baseball, tennis and more would be added in the upcoming release. All the professional leagues as well as some amateur leagues are covered.