Real-time transcription just got a major upgrade. ElevenLabs’ Scribe v2 Realtime API brings blazing-fast, highly accurate live transcription to any application — letting developers stream audio in and get clean, structured text out with minimal latency. For anyone building voice-first products, this is a game changer.
What Is Scribe v2?
Scribe v2 is ElevenLabs’ next-generation speech recognition model, optimized for live, streaming workloads. Unlike batch transcription that waits for a file to finish uploading, Scribe v2 processes audio as it arrives — returning text in fractions of a second, ideal for conversational AI, live captioning, call monitoring, and real-time voice interfaces.
Why Realtime Matters
Latency is the difference between a voice app that feels magical and one that feels broken. With the Scribe v2 Realtime API, transcripts appear as users speak — powering natural back-and-forth interactions, instant captions on live streams, and responsive AI agents that feel truly conversational.
Built for Developers
- WebSocket streaming — simple audio-in, text-out pipeline
- Low latency — transcripts returned in near real time
- Partial & final results — show live interim text, then lock in final output
- Speaker diarization — know who’s speaking, even live
- Multilingual — handles the same broad language range as ElevenLabs’ batch transcription
What You Can Build
Live-captioned events, real-time meeting notes, voice-controlled interfaces, conversational AI agents that listen and respond, accessibility tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, live translation apps, call-center analytics, and interactive game NPCs — all of it gets dramatically easier with Scribe v2.
Start Streaming
If your product depends on fast, accurate, live transcription, Scribe v2 Realtime is the backbone you’ve been waiting for. Spin up the API and start building.