ElevenLabs has recreated Albert Einstein’s voice — built with the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CMG Worldwide — and turned it into an interactive “Einstein” AI agent. Students can ask questions and explore scientific ideas in real-time conversation, hearing answers in a voice modelled on how Einstein actually spoke. Alongside it, ElevenLabs is giving professors free access to bring voice AI into their classrooms, in English, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
It is turning a textbook figure into someone you can talk to. Instead of reading about Einstein, a student can interview him — learning through dialogue rather than pages. The signal: voice AI is reviving historical minds as conversational tutors, making “ask the expert” literal even when the expert died 70 years ago.
So…:
If learners could talk to the person behind your subject, what would they ask first?
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