How to use a meeting transcription API: Real-time and batch with Scribe v2

Manually taking meeting notes is tedious and error-prone, especially when a meeting runs longer than an hour.

• This wastes time and distracts attendees from the discussion.
• Even with an audio recording, tagging specific conversations to individual speakers is challenging.
• A meeting transcription API lets you turn live or recorded meetings into time-stamped, speaker-labeled text inside your product.
• You send audio in and get a structured transcript back, without having to build a speech model yourself.
• This article explains how a meeting transcription API works, compares real-time and batch transcription, and shows how to build with Eleven Scribe v2 and Eleven Scribe v2 Realtime .
• Summary A meeting transcription API converts meeting audio into transcripts with timestamps and speaker labels .
• Real-time transcription offers low latency in-meeting captioning, while batch transcription processes audio recordings after the meeting ends.
• Meeting transcription accuracy depends on audio quality, speakers’ voice patterns, and the underlying voice model.
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