ElevenLabs introduces Cue, a forced alignment model

ElevenLabs research introduced Cue, a forced alignment model: the step that turns a transcript into timestamps, used for subtitles, dubbing and clickable transcripts. It places every character on the audio timeline.

ElevenLabs' claims (its own benchmark, not independently verified):

• Cue handles recordings of any length in a single pass, where it says most open-source aligners are built for short, clean clips in a limited set of languages.
• On real-world audio it was more accurate than every open-source aligner ElevenLabs tested, in all 29 languages of its benchmark.
• It aligns an hour of audio in about half a second on one GPU.

Cue already powers every Speech to Text transcription on ElevenLabs and is available on its own through the Forced Alignment API.