ElevenLabs Scribe outputs word-level timestamps and audio event tags natively

Key points

• Scribe returns tagged, timestamped word, spacing, and audio_event tokens in one API call, with no forced-alignment pass.
• Audio events such as laughter and applause are tagged when tag_audio_events is enabled, making reactions searchable for highlights.
• Multichannel transcription supports up to 5 channels, each transcribed independently with deterministic speaker IDs.
• Output exports to JSON, SRT, and VTT, and live WebSocket streams can include timestamps with include_timestamps=true.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams can build searchable archives, captions, and clips from one transcription call instead of a separate alignment pipeline.