ElevenLabs Speech to Text (inference.sh) — model skill for captions & subtitles
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Transcribe audio with ElevenLabs Scribe, speaker diarization and forced alignment, via inference.sh.
- Type: Model · Captions & subtitles
- Slug:
inference-sh-elevenlabs-stt - Status: live
- Publisher: inference.sh (vendor, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/inference-sh/skills/tree/main/tools/audio/elevenlabs-stt
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Requires: inference.sh account, belt CLI (
belt login) - Cost: Billed by inference.sh
- Adoption: 6 installs, 781 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Runs ElevenLabs speech-to-text through inference.sh with Scribe v1 and v2 (90+ languages). Beyond transcription it does speaker diarization, audio event tagging, word-level timestamps, forced alignment and subtitle generation, which also suits lip-sync timing and karaoke.
Use when
- Subtitles with word timings
- Aligning a known script to audio
- Karaoke or lip-sync timing
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill elevenlabs-stt -a claude-code - Codex:
npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill elevenlabs-stt -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill elevenlabs-stt -a cursor - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill elevenlabs-stt -a gemini-cli
Models it drives: scribe_v2, scribe_v1
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/inference-sh-elevenlabs-stt.mp4 — From ElevenLabs' Scribe v2 launch video: a spoken exchange transcribed word by word into chat bubbles ('It's [email protected]', '1-800-404-9825', 'Thanks John. Everything looks to be in order.') (credit: ElevenLabs (Scribe v2 Realtime launch video), https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-scribe-v2-realtime)
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: Transcribe audio and video with word timestamps, speaker labels and keyterms, ready for subtitles.
- 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