ElevenLabs Provider

The ElevenLabs provider contains language model support for the ElevenLabs transcription API.

Setup

The ElevenLabs provider is available in the @ai-sdk/elevenlabs module. You can install it with

pnpm
npm
yarn
pnpm add @ai-sdk/elevenlabs

Provider Instance

You can import the default provider instance elevenlabs from @ai-sdk/elevenlabs:

import { elevenlabs } from '@ai-sdk/elevenlabs';

If you need a customized setup, you can import createElevenLabs from @ai-sdk/elevenlabs and create a provider instance with your settings:

import { createElevenLabs } from '@ai-sdk/elevenlabs';
const elevenlabs = createElevenLabs({
// custom settings, e.g.
fetch: customFetch,
});

You can use the following optional settings to customize the ElevenLabs provider instance:

  • apiKey string

    API key that is being sent using the Authorization header. It defaults to the ELEVENLABS_API_KEY environment variable.

  • headers Record<string,string>

    Custom headers to include in the requests.

  • fetch (input: RequestInfo, init?: RequestInit) => Promise<Response>

    Custom fetch implementation. Defaults to the global fetch function. You can use it as a middleware to intercept requests, or to provide a custom fetch implementation for e.g. testing.

Transcription Models

You can create models that call the ElevenLabs transcription API using the .transcription() factory method.

The first argument is the model id e.g. scribe_v1.

const model = elevenlabs.transcription('scribe_v1');

You can also pass additional provider-specific options using the providerOptions argument. For example, supplying the input language in ISO-639-1 (e.g. en) format can sometimes improve transcription performance if known beforehand.

import { experimental_transcribe as transcribe } from 'ai';
import { elevenlabs } from '@ai-sdk/elevenlabs';
const result = await transcribe({
model: elevenlabs.transcription('scribe_v1'),
audio: new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3, 4]),
providerOptions: { elevenlabs: { languageCode: 'en' } },
});

The following provider options are available:

  • languageCode string

    An ISO-639-1 or ISO-639-3 language code corresponding to the language of the audio file. Can sometimes improve transcription performance if known beforehand. Defaults to null, in which case the language is predicted automatically.

  • tagAudioEvents boolean

    Whether to tag audio events like (laughter), (footsteps), etc. in the transcription. Defaults to true.

  • numSpeakers integer

    The maximum amount of speakers talking in the uploaded file. Can help with predicting who speaks when. The maximum amount of speakers that can be predicted is 32. Defaults to null, in which case the amount of speakers is set to the maximum value the model supports.

  • timestampsGranularity enum

    The granularity of the timestamps in the transcription. Defaults to 'word'. Allowed values: 'none', 'word', 'character'.

  • diarize boolean

    Whether to annotate which speaker is currently talking in the uploaded file. Defaults to true.

  • fileFormat enum

    The format of input audio. Defaults to 'other'. Allowed values: 'pcm_s16le_16', 'other'. For 'pcm_s16le_16', the input audio must be 16-bit PCM at a 16kHz sample rate, single channel (mono), and little-endian byte order. Latency will be lower than with passing an encoded waveform.

Model Capabilities

ModelTranscriptionDurationSegmentsLanguage
scribe_v1
scribe_v1_experimental