Measured 2026-09-17 on FLEURS
Pikka Speech vs ElevenLabs Scribe v2: which is more accurate?
Across 80 languages, Pikka Speech records a median character error rate of 2.9% against ElevenLabs Scribe v2’s 3.2% on the same audio — lower is better. Pikka Speech wins or ties 43 of 80.
Per language
Character error rate, language by language
Lower is better. Difference is Pikka Speech minus ElevenLabs Scribe v2; a negative value means Pikka Speech is ahead.
| Language | Pikka Speech | ElevenLabs Scribe v2 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | 2.8% | 1.5% | +1.3 pts |
| Amharic | 3.9% | 10.7% | -6.8 pts |
| Arabic | 4.1% | 5.2% | -1.1 pts |
| Armenian | 12.3% | 12.5% | -0.2 pts |
| Assamese | 8.5% | 8.2% | +0.3 pts |
| Asturian | 7.6% | 4.2% | +3.4 pts |
| Azerbaijani | 0.9% | 0.9% | 0.0 pts |
| Belarusian | 2.2% | 2.2% | 0.0 pts |
| Bengali | 0.9% | 3.3% | -2.4 pts |
| Bulgarian | 0.4% | 1.0% | -0.6 pts |
| Burmese | 9.9% | 8.7% | +1.2 pts |
| Cantonese | 39.6% | 22.7% | +16.9 pts |
| Catalan | 2.2% | 2.7% | -0.5 pts |
| Cebuano | 9.8% | 4.5% | +5.3 pts |
| Chinese | 4.9% | 7.6% | -2.7 pts |
| Croatian | 0.4% | 2.4% | -2.0 pts |
| Czech | 6.0% | 3.1% | +2.9 pts |
| Danish | 1.8% | 1.2% | +0.6 pts |
| Dutch | 1.8% | 0.6% | +1.2 pts |
| English | 3.1% | 2.2% | +0.9 pts |
| Estonian | 0.5% | 1.7% | -1.2 pts |
| Finnish | 0.3% | 0.2% | +0.1 pts |
| French | 3.9% | 0.7% | +3.2 pts |
| Galician | 1.1% | 1.6% | -0.5 pts |
| Georgian | 4.1% | 2.6% | +1.5 pts |
| German | 5.1% | 0.4% | +4.7 pts |
| Greek | 2.4% | 1.7% | +0.7 pts |
| Gujarati | 3.4% | 6.9% | -3.5 pts |
| Hausa | 5.9% | 6.6% | -0.7 pts |
| Hindi | 1.7% | 4.4% | -2.7 pts |
| Hungarian | 4.0% | 3.2% | +0.8 pts |
| Icelandic | 10.9% | 9.1% | +1.8 pts |
| Indonesian | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0.0 pts |
| Irish | 22.8% | 18.6% | +4.2 pts |
| Italian | 0.3% | 0.7% | -0.4 pts |
| Japanese | 1.8% | 1.1% | +0.7 pts |
| Javanese | 3.1% | 2.4% | +0.7 pts |
| Kannada | 1.6% | 7.3% | -5.7 pts |
| Kazakh | 0.9% | 2.9% | -2.0 pts |
| Khmer | 9.6% | 7.1% | +2.5 pts |
| Korean | 2.2% | 1.3% | +0.9 pts |
| Kyrgyz | 5.6% | 6.5% | -0.9 pts |
| Lao | 17.6% | 7.4% | +10.2 pts |
| Latvian | 2.4% | 2.7% | -0.3 pts |
| Lithuanian | 2.1% | 5.3% | -3.2 pts |
| Luxembourgish | 35.5% | 6.1% | +29.4 pts |
| Macedonian | 1.0% | 0.3% | +0.7 pts |
| Malay | 2.2% | 2.2% | 0.0 pts |
| Malayalam | 1.2% | 7.4% | -6.2 pts |
| Maltese | 12.0% | 2.3% | +9.7 pts |
| Marathi | 3.7% | 6.5% | -2.8 pts |
| Mongolian | 5.2% | 7.3% | -2.1 pts |
| Nepali | 0.0% | 7.0% | -7.0 pts |
| Northern Sotho | 13.2% | 6.4% | +6.8 pts |
| Norwegian | 0.7% | 3.4% | -2.7 pts |
| Odia | 7.8% | 6.8% | +1.0 pts |
| Persian | 1.9% | 4.4% | -2.5 pts |
| Polish | 1.6% | 1.9% | -0.3 pts |
| Portuguese | 1.0% | 3.4% | -2.4 pts |
| Romanian | 2.9% | 1.1% | +1.8 pts |
| Russian | 0.2% | 1.2% | -1.0 pts |
| Serbian | 15.1% | 30.0% | -14.9 pts |
| Sindhi | 4.2% | 5.3% | -1.1 pts |
| Slovak | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.0 pts |
| Slovenian | 2.0% | 1.7% | +0.3 pts |
| Spanish | 1.2% | 0.5% | +0.7 pts |
| Swahili | 1.9% | 1.1% | +0.8 pts |
| Swedish | 4.5% | 2.4% | +2.1 pts |
| Tagalog | 2.3% | 3.1% | -0.8 pts |
| Tajik | 2.9% | 2.4% | +0.5 pts |
| Tamil | 16.8% | 18.3% | -1.5 pts |
| Telugu | 1.4% | 6.3% | -4.9 pts |
| Thai | 4.0% | 4.6% | -0.6 pts |
| Ukrainian | 1.2% | 2.6% | -1.4 pts |
| Urdu | 4.7% | 14.7% | -10.0 pts |
| Uzbek | 7.7% | 7.0% | +0.7 pts |
| Vietnamese | 1.1% | 1.6% | -0.5 pts |
| Welsh | 5.7% | 4.8% | +0.9 pts |
| Xhosa | 49.0% | 6.5% | +42.5 pts |
| he | 6.7% | 8.8% | -2.1 pts |
Both sides
Where ElevenLabs Scribe v2 leads
37 of 80 languages, listed in full — the benchmark publishes its losses, not only its wins.
- Xhosa: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 6.5% vs Pikka Speech 49.0%
- Luxembourgish: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 6.1% vs Pikka Speech 35.5%
- Cantonese: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 22.7% vs Pikka Speech 39.6%
- Lao: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 7.4% vs Pikka Speech 17.6%
- Maltese: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 2.3% vs Pikka Speech 12.0%
- Northern Sotho: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 6.4% vs Pikka Speech 13.2%
- Cebuano: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 4.5% vs Pikka Speech 9.8%
- German: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 0.4% vs Pikka Speech 5.1%
- Irish: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 18.6% vs Pikka Speech 22.8%
- Asturian: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 4.2% vs Pikka Speech 7.6%
- French: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 0.7% vs Pikka Speech 3.9%
- Czech: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 3.1% vs Pikka Speech 6.0%
- Khmer: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 7.1% vs Pikka Speech 9.6%
- Swedish: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 2.4% vs Pikka Speech 4.5%
- Icelandic: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 9.1% vs Pikka Speech 10.9%
- Romanian: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 1.1% vs Pikka Speech 2.9%
- Georgian: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 2.6% vs Pikka Speech 4.1%
- Afrikaans: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 1.5% vs Pikka Speech 2.8%
- Burmese: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 8.7% vs Pikka Speech 9.9%
- Dutch: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 0.6% vs Pikka Speech 1.8%
- Odia: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 6.8% vs Pikka Speech 7.8%
- English: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 2.2% vs Pikka Speech 3.1%
- Korean: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 1.3% vs Pikka Speech 2.2%
- Welsh: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 4.8% vs Pikka Speech 5.7%
- Hungarian: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 3.2% vs Pikka Speech 4.0%
- Swahili: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 1.1% vs Pikka Speech 1.9%
- Greek: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 1.7% vs Pikka Speech 2.4%
- Japanese: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 1.1% vs Pikka Speech 1.8%
- Javanese: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 2.4% vs Pikka Speech 3.1%
- Macedonian: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 0.3% vs Pikka Speech 1.0%
- Spanish: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 0.5% vs Pikka Speech 1.2%
- Uzbek: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 7.0% vs Pikka Speech 7.7%
- Danish: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 1.2% vs Pikka Speech 1.8%
- Tajik: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 2.4% vs Pikka Speech 2.9%
- Assamese: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 8.2% vs Pikka Speech 8.5%
- Slovenian: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 1.7% vs Pikka Speech 2.0%
- Finnish: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 0.2% vs Pikka Speech 0.3%
FAQ
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 vs Pikka Speech
How is Pikka Speech compared against ElevenLabs Scribe v2?
Both engines transcribed the same FLEURS audio — 10 utterances per language — through their own production interfaces, and results are scored as character error rate (CER) after normalising case and punctuation. Lower is better. Full per-language detail is on the speech accuracy page.
Where does ElevenLabs Scribe v2 win?
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 records a lower error rate on 37 of the 80 languages compared — Xhosa (6.5% vs 49.0%), Luxembourgish (6.1% vs 35.5%), Cantonese (22.7% vs 39.6%), Lao (7.4% vs 17.6%), Maltese (2.3% vs 12.0%). Those rows are published in full on this page.
What does a difference in character error rate mean in practice?
CER is the share of characters an engine gets wrong: 3% means roughly three characters in every hundred differ from what was actually said. In live captions and interpretation, those errors concentrate in names, brands and technical terms — which is why the measured difference matters most on event audio.
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