ElevenLabs Scribe v2
Shares rank 20 of 25 speech recognition models by recommenders
Recommended for accuracy on non-English speech, including French dialogue and European languages. One mixed comment says its European-language support is only half decent.
Recommended for accuracy on non-English speech, including French dialogue and European languages. One mixed comment says its European-language support is only half decent.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Accurate for non-English languages
“Thus I keep sticking with Elvenlabs Scribe v2 at least it has half way decent support of European languages on this list.”
Comment from 21 Oct 2026 in “Voxtral 3” “I also found eleven labs gave me the best results when transcribing French dialog from a 60s television show.”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” “significantly more accurate for non-English languages”
Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Loreo – Bot-free, 8MB AI meeting transcriber using Scribe v2”
Other speech recognition models people recommend
The four most recommended other speech recognition models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Whisper | 164 | 53 | 76% | 12 | — | Approved |
| NVIDIA Parakeet | 144 | 27 | 84% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Mistral Voxtral | 69 | 27 | 72% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Moonshine open-weights STT models | 37 | 13 | 74% | 7 | — | Approved |
| ElevenLabs Scribe v2This page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Thus I keep sticking with Elvenlabs Scribe v2 at least it has half way decent support of European languages on this list.”
“it is exceptionally accurate for this”
“I also found eleven labs gave me the best results when transcribing French dialog from a 60s television show.”
“the best multiplatform, multi-language choice”
“significantly more accurate for non-English languages”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.