Built for voice agents that can't wait 600ms

ElevenLabs: Scribe v2 Realtime

elevenlabs/scribe-v2-realtime
active stt 1 provider
Playground

ElevenLabs' realtime/streaming speech-to-text model for live and agentic use cases, with ~150ms latency and partial + committed transcripts.

AuthorElevenLabs
Languages1 languages
Statusactive

Providers

Different providers can host the same model. Choose one provider when you need a fixed backend, or let routing select among them.

ProviderSlugPer hourLatencyiFor TTS, latency is measured as time to first byte of audio. For STT, latency is measured as time to first token.ModesUptime
ElevenLabs 3 params
elevenlabs
$0.39
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Streaming

Supported languages

1 languages
English en

Features

Speech to text

Transcribes spoken audio to text.

speech_to_text
Streaming

Real-time streaming transcription over WebSocket (~150ms latency).

streaming
Multilingual transcription

Supports over 90 languages.

multilingual_transcription
Word-level timestamps

Returns word-level timestamps for transcribed audio.

word_timestamps
Language detection

Automatically detects the spoken language.

language_detection

Code

Client
Mode
Language

ElevenLabs SDK streaming STT

Streams microphone or file audio through the ElevenLabs-compatible allmodels route.

import { ElevenLabsClient } from "elevenlabs";

const client = new ElevenLabsClient({
  apiKey: process.env.ALLMODELS_API_KEY,
  baseUrl: "https://api.allmodels.io/el"
});

const connection = await client.speechToText.realtime.connect({
  modelId: "elevenlabs/scribe-v2-realtime",
  languageCode: "en"
});

// Send audio frames to connection, then handle transcript events.