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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.

Character error rate per language for Pikka Speech and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 on FLEURS audio.
LanguagePikka SpeechElevenLabs Scribe v2Difference
Afrikaans2.8%1.5%+1.3 pts
Amharic3.9%10.7%-6.8 pts
Arabic4.1%5.2%-1.1 pts
Armenian12.3%12.5%-0.2 pts
Assamese8.5%8.2%+0.3 pts
Asturian7.6%4.2%+3.4 pts
Azerbaijani0.9%0.9%0.0 pts
Belarusian2.2%2.2%0.0 pts
Bengali0.9%3.3%-2.4 pts
Bulgarian0.4%1.0%-0.6 pts
Burmese9.9%8.7%+1.2 pts
Cantonese39.6%22.7%+16.9 pts
Catalan2.2%2.7%-0.5 pts
Cebuano9.8%4.5%+5.3 pts
Chinese4.9%7.6%-2.7 pts
Croatian0.4%2.4%-2.0 pts
Czech6.0%3.1%+2.9 pts
Danish1.8%1.2%+0.6 pts
Dutch1.8%0.6%+1.2 pts
English3.1%2.2%+0.9 pts
Estonian0.5%1.7%-1.2 pts
Finnish0.3%0.2%+0.1 pts
French3.9%0.7%+3.2 pts
Galician1.1%1.6%-0.5 pts
Georgian4.1%2.6%+1.5 pts
German5.1%0.4%+4.7 pts
Greek2.4%1.7%+0.7 pts
Gujarati3.4%6.9%-3.5 pts
Hausa5.9%6.6%-0.7 pts
Hindi1.7%4.4%-2.7 pts
Hungarian4.0%3.2%+0.8 pts
Icelandic10.9%9.1%+1.8 pts
Indonesian1.1%1.1%0.0 pts
Irish22.8%18.6%+4.2 pts
Italian0.3%0.7%-0.4 pts
Japanese1.8%1.1%+0.7 pts
Javanese3.1%2.4%+0.7 pts
Kannada1.6%7.3%-5.7 pts
Kazakh0.9%2.9%-2.0 pts
Khmer9.6%7.1%+2.5 pts
Korean2.2%1.3%+0.9 pts
Kyrgyz5.6%6.5%-0.9 pts
Lao17.6%7.4%+10.2 pts
Latvian2.4%2.7%-0.3 pts
Lithuanian2.1%5.3%-3.2 pts
Luxembourgish35.5%6.1%+29.4 pts
Macedonian1.0%0.3%+0.7 pts
Malay2.2%2.2%0.0 pts
Malayalam1.2%7.4%-6.2 pts
Maltese12.0%2.3%+9.7 pts
Marathi3.7%6.5%-2.8 pts
Mongolian5.2%7.3%-2.1 pts
Nepali0.0%7.0%-7.0 pts
Northern Sotho13.2%6.4%+6.8 pts
Norwegian0.7%3.4%-2.7 pts
Odia7.8%6.8%+1.0 pts
Persian1.9%4.4%-2.5 pts
Polish1.6%1.9%-0.3 pts
Portuguese1.0%3.4%-2.4 pts
Romanian2.9%1.1%+1.8 pts
Russian0.2%1.2%-1.0 pts
Serbian15.1%30.0%-14.9 pts
Sindhi4.2%5.3%-1.1 pts
Slovak1.2%1.2%0.0 pts
Slovenian2.0%1.7%+0.3 pts
Spanish1.2%0.5%+0.7 pts
Swahili1.9%1.1%+0.8 pts
Swedish4.5%2.4%+2.1 pts
Tagalog2.3%3.1%-0.8 pts
Tajik2.9%2.4%+0.5 pts
Tamil16.8%18.3%-1.5 pts
Telugu1.4%6.3%-4.9 pts
Thai4.0%4.6%-0.6 pts
Ukrainian1.2%2.6%-1.4 pts
Urdu4.7%14.7%-10.0 pts
Uzbek7.7%7.0%+0.7 pts
Vietnamese1.1%1.6%-0.5 pts
Welsh5.7%4.8%+0.9 pts
Xhosa49.0%6.5%+42.5 pts
he6.7%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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