Transcribe audio

ElevenLabs Scribe

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

Addresses

REST API: https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/speech-to-text5
MCP server: Local only: uvx elevenlabs-mcp13
OpenAPI spec: https://api.elevenlabs.io/openapi.json17
Docs for agents: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/llms.txt15
Status page: https://status.elevenlabs.io16

Install

What	Command
Python SDK	`pip install elevenlabs`
JavaScript SDK	`npm install @elevenlabs/elevenlabs-js`
Realtime client SDK (browser)	`npm install @elevenlabs/client`
CLI (macOS)	`brew install elevenlabs/tap/elevenlabs`
CLI (npm)	`npm install -g @elevenlabs/cli`
MCP server (local)	`uvx elevenlabs-mcp` with `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY` set
Agent skill	`npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill speech-to-text`

Source3Speech to text quickstart

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