ElevenLabs' Scribe v3 tops speech recognition accuracy, but rivals are faster and half the price

The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-12

ElevenLabs released Scribe v3 and Scribe v3 Live, speech recognition models built to transcribe accurately through background noise and crosstalk. Benchmarks from Artificial Analysis show Scribe v3 narrowly beats OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft on accuracy. Scribe v3 Live additionally uses conversational context to keep voice agents from cutting callers off mid-sentence. The tradeoff: rivals like Microsoft and xAI run many times faster at roughly half the price.

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