Speech to Text

A guide on how to transcribe audio with ElevenLabs

Text to Speech product feature

Overview

With speech to text, you can transcribe spoken audio into text with state art accuracy. With automatic language detection, you can transcribe audio in a multitude of languages.

Guide

1

Upload audio

In the ElevenLabs dashboard, navigate to the Speech to Text page and click the “Transcribe files” button. From the modal, you can upload an audio or video file to transcribe.

Speech to Text upload

2

Select options

Select the primary language of the audio and the maximum number of speakers. If you don’t know either, you can leave the defaults which will attempt to detect the language and number of speakers automatically.

Finally choose whether you wish to tag audio events like laughter or applause, then click the “Transcribe” button.

3

View results

Click on the name of the audio file you uploaded in the center pane to view the results. You can click on a word to start a playback of the audio at that point.

Click the “Export” button in the top right to download the results in a variety of formats.

FAQ

Supported languages

The Scribe v1 model supports 99 languages, including:

Afrikaans (afr), Amharic (amh), Arabic (ara), Armenian (hye), Assamese (asm), Asturian (ast), Azerbaijani (aze), Belarusian (bel), Bengali (ben), Bosnian (bos), Bulgarian (bul), Burmese (mya), Cantonese (yue), Catalan (cat), Cebuano (ceb), Chichewa (nya), Croatian (hrv), Czech (ces), Danish (dan), Dutch (nld), English (eng), Estonian (est), Filipino (fil), Finnish (fin), French (fra), Fulah (ful), Galician (glg), Ganda (lug), Georgian (kat), German (deu), Greek (ell), Gujarati (guj), Hausa (hau), Hebrew (heb), Hindi (hin), Hungarian (hun), Icelandic (isl), Igbo (ibo), Indonesian (ind), Irish (gle), Italian (ita), Japanese (jpn), Javanese (jav), Kabuverdianu (kea), Kannada (kan), Kazakh (kaz), Khmer (khm), Korean (kor), Kurdish (kur), Kyrgyz (kir), Lao (lao), Latvian (lav), Lingala (lin), Lithuanian (lit), Luo (luo), Luxembourgish (ltz), Macedonian (mkd), Malay (msa), Malayalam (mal), Maltese (mlt), Mandarin Chinese (cmn), Māori (mri), Marathi (mar), Mongolian (mon), Nepali (nep), Northern Sotho (nso), Norwegian (nor), Occitan (oci), Odia (ori), Pashto (pus), Persian (fas), Polish (pol), Portuguese (por), Punjabi (pan), Romanian (ron), Russian (rus), Serbian (srp), Shona (sna), Sindhi (snd), Slovak (slk), Slovenian (slv), Somali (som), Spanish (spa), Swahili (swa), Swedish (swe), Tamil (tam), Tajik (tgk), Telugu (tel), Thai (tha), Turkish (tur), Ukrainian (ukr), Umbundu (umb), Urdu (urd), Uzbek (uzb), Vietnamese (vie), Welsh (cym), Wolof (wol), Xhosa (xho) and Zulu (zul).

Yes, the tool supports uploading both audio and video files. The maximum file size for either is 1GB.

Renaming speakers

Yes, you can rename speakers by clicking the “edit” button next to the “Speakers” label.

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