ElevenLabs Speech to Text — model skill for captions & subtitles

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Transcribe audio and video with word timestamps, speaker labels and keyterms, ready for subtitles.

• Type: Model · Captions & subtitles
• Slug: elevenlabs-speech-to-text
• Status: live
• Publisher: ElevenLabs (vendor, verified)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/elevenlabs/skills/tree/main/speech-to-text
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw
• Requires: ElevenLabs API key (ELEVENLABS_API_KEY)
• Cost: Billed in ElevenLabs credits
• Adoption: 11,900 installs, 510 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

What it does

Transcribes audio and video with ElevenLabs Scribe v2, with word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, multichannel audio, keyterm prompting and language detection. It also covers real-time streaming from a server or a React client, including commit strategies and event types.

Use when

• Generating subtitles for a video
• Transcribing interviews or meetings
• Word timings for captions or lip-sync

Install

• Claude Code: npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill speech-to-text -a claude-code
• Codex: npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill speech-to-text -a codex
• Cursor: npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill speech-to-text -a cursor
• Gemini CLI: npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill speech-to-text -a gemini-cli
• OpenClaw: npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill speech-to-text -a openclaw

Models it drives: scribe_v2

Used for

• Animated captions on your video: TikTok-style subtitles burned into an existing video: word highlight, pop words, or designed editorial captions.
• Lyric video: Lyrics synced to the song: the sung line big and highlighted, karaoke-style, over art or a shader.

More captions & subtitles skills

• 3D Camera Captions: Captions that live in 3D around a talking head: the camera flies through the words, heroes pass behind the speaker.
• Remotion Captions: Transcribe speech and burn in animated captions with Remotion, or import an existing SRT file.
• ElevenLabs Speech to Text (inference.sh): Transcribe audio with ElevenLabs Scribe, speaker diarization and forced alignment, via inference.sh.
• Speech to Text: Transcribe audio with ElevenLabs Scribe v2 or Whisper V3 Large, with timestamps and speaker labels.
• Pretext Text Metrics: Measure and fit text without the DOM using pretext: auto-fit sizes, know line breaks before render, canvas/WebGL text.
• Chinese Font Selector: Pick Chinese fonts by license tier first (OFL, vendor-free, avoid), then by scene and mood, with Latin pairings.

Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg (skill + hosted MCP)
• Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y
• Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp
• API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt