ElevenLabs STT plugin guide

Available in

Python

Overview

This plugin allows you to use ElevenLabs as an STT provider for your voice agents.

LiveKit Inference

ElevenLabs STT is also available in LiveKit Inference, with billing and integration handled automatically. See the docs for more information.

Quick reference

This section includes a basic usage example and some reference material. For links to more detailed documentation, see Additional resources.

Installation

Install the plugin from PyPI:

uv add "livekit-agents[elevenlabs]~=1.2"

Authentication

The ElevenLabs plugin requires an ElevenLabs API key.

Set ELEVEN_API_KEY in your .env file.

Usage

Use ElevenLabs STT in an AgentSession or as a standalone transcription service. For example, you can use this STT in the Voice AI quickstart.

from livekit.plugins import elevenlabs

session = AgentSession(
   stt=elevenlabs.STT(
      model="scribe_v2_realtime",
   ),
   # ... llm, tts, etc.
)

Parameters

This section describes some of the available parameters. See the plugin reference links in the Additional resources section for more details.

modelstringOptionalDefault: scribe_v2_realtime

The ElevenLabs model to use for speech recognition.

Additional resources

The following resources provide more information about using ElevenLabs with LiveKit Agents.

Python package

Reference GitHub PyPI

ElevenLabs docs

ElevenLabs' full docs site.

Voice AI quickstart

Get started with LiveKit Agents and ElevenLabs.

ElevenLabs TTS

Guide to the ElevenLabs TTS plugin with LiveKit Agents.