SPEECH TO TEXT

Transcribe speech to text with the world’s most accurate ASR model

Achieve industry-leading transcription accuracy in 99 languages with Scribe, featuring character-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and audio-event tagging—all delivered in a structured API response for seamless integration

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Every word, perfectly captured

Scribe listens to every nuance, capturing each word with unmatched precision. Delivering audio transcription in 99 languages—with character-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and audio-event tagging—it returns structured results for seamless integration

Powerful Audio to Text features for your app

Transform your audio into flawless text with Scribe, the world's most advanced ASR (automatic speech recognition) model with the simplest speech to text API integration

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Industry-leading accuracy

Achieve precision like never before—Scribe delivers the industry's lowest word error rate for perfectly accurate transcription

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Smart speaker diarization

In any conversation, even the busiest ones, Scribe intuitively distinguishes and labels every speaker for clear, organized transcripts

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Precise word-level timestamps

Capture the exact moment each word is spoken. Scribe’s detailed timestamps enable seamless subtitle syncing and interactive audio experiences

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Dynamic audio tagging

From laughter to footsteps, Scribe’s transcription model tags every sound event, enriching your transcripts with the full context of your audio

99 Languages supported

Global language support

Break language barriers with support for 99 languages—Scribe unlocks AI transcription capabilities for languages previously out of reach

Developers

Integrate ElevenLabs Scribe

Seamlessly integrate the world’s most accurate speech to text model, into your application. Get started with our developer-friendly examples that showcase features like diarization, character-level timestamps, and audio-event tagging for flawless transcriptions

FLEURS Benchmark Performance

Scribe's performance is state of the art on the FLEURS benchmark

Common Voice Benchmark Performance

Scribe's performance is state of the art on the Common Voice benchmark

Benchmarks

The world's most accurate ASR model, supporting over 99 languages

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Benchmarked against other ASR models, Scribe delivers over 98% transcription accuracy in major languages while dramatically reducing errors in traditionally underserved ones—such as Serbian, Cantonese and Malayalam

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Frequently asked questions

Excellent Accuracy (≤ 5% Word Error Rate - WER)
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Malay, Malayalam, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

High Accuracy (>5% to ≤10% WER)
Bengali, Belarusian, Bosnian, Cantonese, Estonian, Filipino, Gujarati, Hungarian, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Persian, Slovenian, Tamil, Telugu

Good (>10% to ≤25% WER)
Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Burmese, Cebuano, Croatian, Georgian, Hausa, Hebrew, Icelandic, Javanese, Kabuverdianu, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lingala, Maltese, Mongolian, Māori, Occitan, Punjabi, Sindhi, Swahili, Tajik, Thai, Urdu, Uzbek, Welsh

Moderate (>25% to ≤50% WER)
Amharic, Chichewa, Fulah, Ganda, Igbo, Irish, Khmer, Kurdish, Lao, Luxembourgish, Luo, Northern Sotho, Pashto, Shona, Somali, Umbundu, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

Speech-to-text (STT) is a technology that converts spoken language into written text using automatic speech recognition (ASR). It processes audio signals, identifies speech patterns, and transcribes them into text with high accuracy. ElevenLabs' AI-powered speech-to-text software is designed to transcribe audio and video content with human-like precision, making it ideal for voice-to-text conversion, audio transcription, and real-time speech recognition. Speech-to-text technology is used in: ✔ Audio-to-text transcription for podcasts, meetings, and interviews. ✔ Captions and subtitles in video content. ✔ Voice-to-text software for hands-free typing and accessibility tools. ElevenLabs ASR offers fast, reliable, and highly accurate speech-to-text conversion for multiple languages and accents.

ElevenLabs provides video transcription to convert spoken dialogue into text format, making it easy to create subtitles, captions, and searchable transcripts. Steps to transcribe video to text: 1. Upload your video file to ElevenLabs ASR 2. Speech recognition technology processes the audio 3. A transcript is generated automatically, with timestamps 4. Download the text file or export subtitles for editing. This AI-powered video transcription model helps content creators, businesses, and educators quickly convert video speech into accurate text for accessibility and content repurposing.

Scribe currently works well for use-cases where the input audio is available upfront. A low-latency, real-time version will be released soon.

Starting from $0.40 per hour of transcribed audio, falling well below this at scale with Enterprise plans.

Recent Speech to Text Guides & How To's

Research
Introducing IIscribe V1, the world's most accurate speech-to-text model.

Meet Scribe

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