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Show HN: Scribe v2 Realtime – new SOTA real-time speech to text model

https://elevenlabs.io/realtime-speech-to-text

Luke from ElevenLabs here. We just released Scribe Realtime v2, our new real-time Speech to Text model.We rebuilt it from the ground up around a new architecture that uses predictive transcription – it anticipates the next likely word before it’s spoken. That makes it both fast (around 150 ms latency) and highly accurate.Scribe v2 Realtime outperforms every low latency transcription model...

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I used this last week and it's excellent - feels like the same increase in productivity increase from when I first used Cursor.

Are you thinking of doing a hosted version so I can have my team collab on it?

And I found I could open lots of PRs at once but they often need to be dependent on each other - and then I want to make a change to the first one. How are you thinking of better managing that flow?

Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:08PM (#44195803)
Can you choose a voice that's native in that language in the voice library: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?language=es
Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:47PM (#44195626)
It should work well for the logged in voices here: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?language=ro

We are in the process of updated the homepage voices for the new languages

Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:41PM (#44195585)
Can you try with this voice? https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?voiceId=xTZlmU8dKXdy...

Voice selection matters more for this model

Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:25PM (#44195461)
Which language isn't good and I'll get that fixed asap?
Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:25PM (#44195452)
There's lots of great german voices here which should be better: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library/collections/SHEPnUB9...

The voice selection matters a lot for this research preview

Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:23PM (#44195437)
If you'd like it to sound like a french person speaking french this voice works great: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?voiceId=xTZlmU8dKXdy...

Or if you want a french person speaking english with a french accent use that voice with "[French accent]" before it

Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:22PM (#44195430)
If you edit the text so that laugh makes sense in the context it should be much more natural like this one: https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/1930689782331412811
Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @03:49PM (#44195173)
can you try with a Romanian voice?
Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @03:49PM (#44195169)
If you're trying to make an audiobook about an Alabaman visiting Paris this might be quite useful... But in seriousness try it with this voice: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?voiceId=rbFGGoDXFHtV...
Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @03:44PM (#44195114)
> The result with OpenAI feels much less predictable and of lower production quality than ElevenLabs

Thank you Ian! Credit to our research team for making this possible

For the prosidy, if you choose an expressive voice the prosidy should be larger

Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @03:43PM (#44195095)
We have lots of great British voices in our voice library! Or if you want to hear an american trying to do a british accent add "[British accent]" at the start of the generation
Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @03:38PM (#44195049)
Can you try with a voice that was trained on that language? This research preview is more variable based on the voice chosen
Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @03:14PM (#44194851)
It's a research preview for now but it should work well in 70+ languages. Voices make a big difference, can you try with a few Russian IVCs?
Re:Text to Bark from ElevenLabs [video] on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @05:12PM (#43551409)
One day I hope this can be made for real
Re:Text to Bark – AI model for communicating with dogs on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:30AM (#43545094)
Here at ElevenLabs, we introduced the world's first ultra-realistic Text to Speech model, and recently launched the world's most accurate Speech to Text model, Scribe.

But we're not stopping there.

Today, we're taking one small step for man, and one giant leap for man's best friend.

Introducing Text to Bark, the world's first AI-powered TTS model for dogs.

To use it, just fetch the ElevenLabsClient and then use the model_id Canine v1.

We built it by fine tuning Llama to work with dogs, not just llamas

Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server on Monday March 31, 2025 @11:18AM (#43536036)
Yep!
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:45AM (#43534353)
For most people, their life isn't stored in neat Notion database.

Instead, if you have calendar + email + their main messaging apps (e.g. WhatsApp) you cover the majority of it. It's messy and unstructured — but luckily LLMs are great at that

Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:41AM (#43534305)
It saves the messages in a local SQLite database on load — so querying shouldn't be an issue as it doesn't contact the WhatsApp server. For sending, this does use the API however and needs more caution
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:38AM (#43534270)
whatsmeow is in Go. Potentially I could have used a gopy instead and done it all in python (or just done it all in Go)
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:36AM (#43534257)
Mainly that I'm more familiar with Python — you're correct however that MCP Go would be a good way to go if I do a bigger refactor

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

https://github.com/lharries/whatsapp-mcp

Hi HN – I built an open-source, self-hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for WhatsApp: https://github.com/lharries/whatsapp-mcpIt connects to your personal WhatsApp account via the WhatsApp Web multi-device API (using whatsmeow from the Beeper team), and doesn't rely on third-party APIs. All messages are stored locally in SQLite. Nothing is sent to the cloud unless you explicitly allow...

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