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! 🔨
Thor 雷神
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DX at Google DeepMind | GitHub ⭐️ | @hackerhousetaiwan.fyi | Formerly ElevenLabs, Supabase, Stripe, Google, SAP • my views
This is just the start, plenty of more tutorials coming soon! What's your biggest challenge with building and deploying agents? Let me know! 👇
We're launching a comprehensive video series of Agent Tutorials that will take you from beginner to expert in building, deploying, customizing, and testing conversational AI agents with ElevenLabs.
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:
After six absolutely life-changing years in #Singapore, I have moved to #NYC! 🗽🇺🇸 Happy belated birthday, Singapore! This is not goodbye, this is a see you soon! 👋
Thanks @deeplearningai.bsky.social for featuring us in the recent Voice Agents course! It’s a great overview of the many complexities involved in building production-ready agents. That’s exactly why we built the @elevenlabs.io Agents platform! go.thor.bio/deeplearning...
Building AI Voice Agents for Production
Build responsive, scalable, and human-like AI voice applications.
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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:
With demand for #DevRel at an all-time high, I often get questions from folks who are new to the role. While I love mentoring 1:1, it doesn’t scale well. So I decided to spill all my secrets on a recent episode of the #Voxgig podcast with @rjrodger.bsky.social. go.thor.bio/secrets
Fireside chat with Thorsten Schaeff - Developer Experience at ElevenLabs
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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...
Agents as Code - Conversational AI CLI
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来週、東京で開催される @revenuecat.com の Vibe Coding Catfe に参加できることを、とても楽しみにしています。 来週火曜日は、@elevenlabs.io の会話型AIワークショップと #Shipaton 2025 のキックオフパーティーにもぜひご参加ください。 会場でお会いしましょう!
It's the final day of hackathon.dev and inspiration finally hit ⚡️ Presenting GeoGuesser AI, the #voice powered location guessing game 🗺️✨ Built with @elevenlabs.io and Google Maps street view, vibe coded by @bolt.new!
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
Singapore Global Network Spotlight | Thor Schaeff
Welcome to Member Spotlight, where we shine a light on the inspiring people who make our community vibrant and unique. This time, meet Thorsten Schaeff—a German-born software engineer now based in Sin...
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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
How we code has changed drastically in just the last year, which also means we need to adapt our developer experience to work for both humans and machines! Join me at nyc.devrelcon.dev where I'll be sharing my learnings from my time at stripe.com , @supabase.com, and @elevenlabs.io!
You can now generate infinite voices with local accents using @elevenlabs.io Voice Design v3! 🤯 I used this prompt to generate a German Oma 👵 "An older woman with a thick German accent. She is sweet and sarcastic." And she's hilarious! 🤣 Try it now! 👇
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 11ai
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Honored to be part of the incredible panel of judges for the World's Largest Hackathon ✨ Excited to see all the amazing submissions for the @elevenlabs.io #Voice #AI Challenge! 🔥 Don’t forget to check out: → Prompting Guide → Conversational Voice Design Tips #worldslargesthackathon @bolt.new
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...
Connect ElevenLabs AI Agents with Powerful Tools & Automate via Voice
Enhance Your AI with 11 Labs Voice Agent Tools: A Step-by-Step GuideIn this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll show you how to integrate essential tools like Googl...
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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! 🤓👇
We're hosting the unofficial Stripe Sessions After-Party with @sourcegraph.com and @planetscale.com. Join us on May 8th for pizza, drinks, and lightning talks on building with AI. See you there. go.thor.bio/ai-builders-...
Did you know that open.gov.sg in #Singapore organises a yearly community hackathon, inviting folks to participate in building tech for the public good? The next community hackathon is happening in June! Check out this recap from 2024👇 go.thor.bio/ogp-bfg-24
Build for Good 2024 Accelerator Recap
From Oct to Nov 2024, we ran our second Build for Good accelerator with 5 winning teams that emerged from the hackathon phase, in collaboration with the Sing...
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🗣️ 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-...
How to build universal app voice agents with Expo & ElevenLabs
The future of cross-platform voice agents is rapidly evolving toward smarter, more human-like interactions. Build your own with Expo and ElevenLabs.
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