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ElevenLabs

Voice tools: text read aloud, and speech turned into text

Started with synthetic voices and now runs speech-to-text as well. People who would rather talk than type dictate email, notes and prompts into it, then tidy the transcript afterwards. Pricing runs per minute of audio above a small free allowance. Names, jargon and strong accents are where it still trips.

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  • Lex FridmanDoes it

    AI researcher · Lex Fridman Podcast

    For dictation he puts the raw audio through ElevenLabs, which he calls probably the best speech-to-text model. Mistakes still come back, so the text then goes to a prompt holding a dictionary of names and terms he uses often.

    Source: Lex Fridman Podcast: DHH transcript

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