ElevenLabs' blog post says Scribe v3 reduces word error rate by 27% compared with Scribe v2 across 102 languages on FLEURS, and that results measured in different ways aren't directly comparable.

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ElevenLabs' API pricing page lists Scribe v3 speech to text at $0.20 per hour and Scribe v3 Live at $0.22 per hour, the same per-hour prices it lists for Scribe v2 ($0.20) and Scribe v2 Realtime ($0.22).

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ElevenLabs says Zero Retention Mode deletes audio and text as soon as a request completes, and that the models run in the US by default with isolated EU, India and Singapore environments for enterprise customers with data residency requirements.

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ElevenLabs says Scribe v3 Live is available in ElevenAgents, both models are available in ElevenAPI, and both are the default in the ElevenLabs app.

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ElevenLabs says Eneco, which supplies energy to more than 2 million homes and businesses in the Netherlands, tested Scribe v3 Live on its ElevenAgents voice agent, and that in real customer calls the agent recognized Dutch postcodes correctly on the first try 40% more often, and house numbers 15% more often.

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ElevenLabs says it measured multilingual accuracy on an internal version of the FLEURS benchmark, and built its own diarization dataset of real meetings, agent calls, and voice notes across 16 languages, which it says it will open-source soon.

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ElevenLabs says Scribe v3 Live uses the context of the conversation as well as the audio for turn detection, so a caller who pauses halfway through a number isn't cut off.

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ElevenLabs says Scribe v3 makes 17% fewer diarization errors than Scribe v2 on recordings with three or more speakers.

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ElevenLabs says Scribe v3 Live includes speaker diarization (labeling who said what) for the first time, and improved turn detection.

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ElevenLabs' blog post of November 10, 2026 introduces Scribe v3, for recorded audio, and Scribe v3 Live, the low-latency variant for realtime audio.

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