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
How-to tutorials that use it
- How to cut a podcast into short video clips with AI: Find the best moments in a long video, cut them, reframe to 9:16 and burn captions.
- How to add animated captions to a video with AI: TikTok-style subtitles burned into an existing video: word highlight, pop words, or designed editorial captions.
- How to make a talking avatar video with AI: A person (from a headshot, or generated) speaks your script to camera with lip-sync, in any language.
- How to make an AI music video: A music video for your song: concept, a consistent lead character, shots cut on the beat, lip-sync on vocals.
- How to make a lyric video with AI: Lyrics synced to the song: the sung line big and highlighted, karaoke-style, over art or a shader.
- How to edit your own video footage with AI: Cut silences and flubs, reframe 16:9 to 9:16, add captions and b-roll to footage you shot.
- How to add voiceover and music to a video with AI: A professional voiceover and a fitting music bed added to your video or screen recording.
- How to make AI b-roll for your video: Cutaway footage for every mention in a voiceover or interview: generated clips, collage or stock-style shots, cut in on time.
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
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- 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 - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - 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