Transcribe audio

ElevenLabs Scribe

Speech-to-text API that turns audio and video files or live streams into transcripts with timestamps and speaker labels.

Your data

Data location: US by default; EU, India and Singapore on Enterprise11
Retention: Inputs and outputs of STT requests are logged by default; ZRM is Enterprise only10
Used for training: The privacy policy says personal information is used to train models; opt-out in account settings12
Zero data retention: Enterprise only, per request with enable_logging=false; covers /v1/speech-to-text/ endpoints10

Compliance

Certifications: SOC2; GDPR-aligned practices11
HIPAA: Business Associate Agreement available via sales; scribe_v2_medical is HIPAA-eligible with ZRM2

Read from ElevenLabs’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/elevenlabs-scribe.md