ElevenLabs Scribe
ElevenLabs' speech-to-text model — high-accuracy transcription with speaker labels and timestamps.
What is ElevenLabs Scribe?
ElevenLabs Scribe is ElevenLabs' transcription model, the speech-to-text counterpart to the company's well-known voice generation tools. It handles speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and 90+ languages, aimed at anyone who needs accurate transcripts rather than synthetic voices.
ElevenLabs built its name on realistic voice generation, and Scribe is a separate, dedicated product for the reverse problem: turning audio into accurate, structured text. Speaker diarization and word-level timestamps make it useful for podcast editing, captioning, and meeting transcripts, not just a plain speech-to-text dump.
Key features
- Speaker diarization (who said what)
- Word-level timestamps
- 90+ language support
- High accuracy on accented and overlapping speech
- API access alongside ElevenLabs' voice generation tools
Pros
- Accuracy holds up well on accented speech and multi-speaker audio
- Word-level timestamps make it genuinely useful for captioning and editing
- One account covers both transcription and ElevenLabs' voice generation tools
Cons
- Free tier minutes run out fast on longer recordings
- Less established track record than dedicated transcription specialists like Deepgram
- Diarization can still mislabel speakers in noisy, crosstalk-heavy audio
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