How your transcript knows where each word is spoken

ElevenLabs introduced Cue, a forced alignment model that places every character in an audio file on a precise timeline, powering its Scribe speech-to-text family and available through a Forced Alignment API. ElevenLabs says Cue was more accurate than every aligner it tested across all 29 benchmark languages, handles recordings of any length in a single pass, and aligns an hour of audio in under a second. It also aligned songs in English, French, Spanish and German in one pass, placing 92.7% of words within 0.3 seconds of the label.