Left gets fewer words wrong. Lower has the final text ready sooner.
ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live is ahead of Deepgram Flux Multilingual on all five metrics.
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Lower is better on every measure. Too close to call means the likely ranges overlap. For costs, see our breakdown of Deepgram pricing.
ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live is more accurate on both datasets. On the 1,000 public Pipecat clips, Deepgram Flux Multilingual scores 4.81% and ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live 1.89%, so ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live makes fewer errors by 2.92 points. On the 300 licensed Ocular turns, Deepgram Flux Multilingual scores 4.96% and ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live 1.81%, so ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live makes fewer errors by 3.15 points. Word error rate counts incorrect, missing, and extra words, so lower is better.
ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live is more accurate on both datasets. On the 1,000 public Pipecat clips, Deepgram Flux Multilingual scores 4.81% and ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live 1.89%, so ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live makes fewer errors by 2.92 points. On the 300 licensed Ocular turns, Deepgram Flux Multilingual scores 4.96% and ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live 1.81%, so ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live makes fewer errors by 3.15 points. Word error rate counts incorrect, missing, and extra words, so lower is better.
No. ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live finishes the transcript 108ms sooner. Deepgram Flux Multilingual has the final transcript 793ms after the speaker stops and ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live 685ms, at the median. Both are measured on the same 206 streamed turns.
ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live is the stronger pick for voice agents: it makes fewer errors on real conversations and finishes the transcript 108ms sooner. A voice agent cannot reply until the final transcript arrives, and the Ocular recordings are real conversations.
Yes, both return partial text before the speaker stops. Deepgram Flux Multilingual shows first text after 4.53% and ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live after 2.05%, at the median, so ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live is 2.48 points lower.
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