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Scribe v3 Live

ElevenLabs introduced Scribe v3 Live for real-time speech transcription, adding speaker diarization and context-aware turn detection. The company reports lower transcription error rates than Scribe v2 Realtime in its evaluations.

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Provider
ElevenLabs
Announcement date
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Generally available

What changed

ElevenLabs describes Scribe v3 Live as its low-latency real-time successor to Scribe v2 Realtime. It adds real-time speaker diarization and improved turn detection, plus multilingual mode for language switching mid-sentence. ElevenLabs reports reduced error rates against Scribe v2 Realtime in its evaluation; this is a provider-reported result, not an independent test.

Access and availability

Available through ElevenLabs Speech to Text API and ElevenAgents. The company says the API model ID can be switched from Scribe v2 Realtime.

Official access documentation

What you can build

Test it on live audio with interruptions and speaker changes, then check turn boundaries and speaker labels before using results in an automated workflow.

Limitations

The comparative accuracy and diarization results are ElevenLabs-reported evaluations and are not independent testing. The announcement does not specify regional access or API rate limits.

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