What is Scribe
Scribe is a high-precision ElevenLabs speech-to-textspeech-to-textmodel launched by ElevenLabs, designed for multilingual and complex audio environments. It supports 99 languages, with transcription accuracy reaching 96.7% for English and 98.7% for Italian, and also performs excellently on low-resource languages. Scribe can distinguish up to 32 speakers, detect non-verbal events such as laughter and sound effects, and provide structured JSON output including word-level timestamps and speaker annotations.
Scribe's Main Features
- Multilingual Support: Scribe supports high-precision transcription in 99 languages, performing excellently in English (96.7% accuracy) and Italian (98.7% accuracy).
- Deep Learning and Audio Understanding: Scribe has the ability to understand audio content. It can detect non-verbal events (such as laughter, sound effects, music, and background noise), and analyze long audio content in complex environments.
- Speaker Distinction and Audio Event Annotation: Scribe can identify and isolate up to 32 different speakers in the same audio file, providing word-by-word timestamps to ensure the accuracy of subtitles or documents.
- Word-by-Word Timestamps: Provides word-level timestamps, facilitating subtitle synchronization or audio editing.
- Structured Output: Outputs transcription results in JSON format, making it convenient for developers to integrate into various applications.
- High-Precision Transcription: In multiple industry benchmark tests, Scribe's word error rate is lower than Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, OpenAI Whisper v3, and Deepgram Nova-3.
Scribe's Official Website Address
- Official Website Address：ElevenLabs
How to Use Scribe
- Use Scribe through the ElevenLabs official platform
- Register an Account: Visit the ElevenLabs official website, click "Sign Up" or "Start Free Trial", fill in the information, and verify your email.
- Upload Files and Generate Transcriptions: After logging in, enter Scribe's transcription interface. Upload audio or video files, and Scribe will automatically transcribe them. After transcription is complete, users can view, edit, and download the generated text.
- Integrate Scribe through the API
- Obtain API Documentation: Developers can obtain Scribe's API documentation through the ElevenLabs official website.
- Integrate into Projects: Using Scribe's Speech to Text API, developers can send audio files to ElevenLabs' servers and receive structured JSON-format transcription results.
Scribe's Application Scenarios
- Meeting Minutes: Scribe can accurately transcribe speech content in meetings into text, supports multilingual and multi-speaker distinction, and can generate detailed meeting minutes.
- Subtitle Generation: Scribe can generate high-precision subtitles for movies, TV series, and video content, supports multiple languages, and is suitable for international content that requires multilingual subtitles.
- Content Creation: Scribe can be used to transcribe podcasts, audiobooks, song lyrics, etc., helping creators quickly generate text content and improve creation efficiency.
- Customer Service: In customer support scenarios, Scribe can transcribe conversations between customers and customer service representatives, helping quickly generate tickets or record issues, and improving service efficiency.
- Education: Scribe can transcribe lectures and course content into text, making it convenient for students to review and study, and is suitable for multilingual teaching environments.