ElevenLabs Partners With Greece to Power Public Services and Preserve Dialects

May 28, 2026

ElevenLabs, an AI platform for voice synthesis and conversational agents, signed a strategic partnership with Greece to deploy voice AI across the public sector. The agreement focuses on making 2,200 government services accessible via natural language, enhancing digital tourism infrastructure, and archiving endangered regional dialects like Cretan.

This move signals the industrialization of voice agents for sovereign use cases. While ElevenLabs already serves Greek enterprises like Alpha Bank, this national-scale deployment follows Anthropic's Australian AI infrastructure partnership in establishing AI labs as public infrastructure consultants. Greece aims to increase accessibility for the diaspora and digitally marginalized citizens.

These capabilities will roll out through the national digital portal and travel platforms over the coming months. For developers, this validates using the ElevenLabs Speech Engine launch for high-stakes, multilingual orchestration in regulated environments. The project will initially focus on linguistic preservation before expanding to maritime and wellness tourism.

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@ElevenLabs13h ago

We’re partnering with the Government of Greece to reimagine public services. Today, we signed an MOU with @PrimeministerGR and @papastergiougr to use voice AI to improve public services, promote tourism, and preserve Greek linguistic heritage. https://t.co/BSpCIHUftw

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ElevenLabs and the Government of Greece signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate voice AI into national infrastructure. The strategic partnership focuses on three main pillars: improving digital public services, supporting the country's tourism marketing and infrastructure, and using AI to preserve rich linguistic heritage and local regional dialects.

The technology will be integrated into the gov.gr digital portal and government call centers. By using voice AI, the government aims to make over 2,200 digital services more accessible through natural language. This initiative specifically targets the Greek diaspora and citizens who find it challenging to navigate traditional internet interfaces.

ElevenLabs is collaborating with the Athena Research Center to archive and preserve regional dialects that are currently spoken by only a few hundred people in isolated communities. The project will begin with the Cretan dialect before expanding to other regional variations to ensure Greece's linguistic heritage is digitally maintained.

The partnership explores using voice AI to expand the reach of the official Visitgreece.gr travel portal. ElevenLabs will provide distinctive AI voices to supercharge marketing campaigns and power new digital platforms dedicated to specific sectors, including wellness, maritime, gastronomic, and mountain tourism to attract a broader global audience.

Discussions regarding the first projects for each pillar are currently underway following meetings between ElevenLabs and various Greek ministries. While specific implementation details will be developed over the coming months, the partnership is already active, and several large Greek enterprises are already using ElevenLabs for customer support and media automation.