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On October 28, 2026, ElevenLabs released the forced alignment model Cue, which can pinpoint the exact time point for every character in audio and has already been used in the Scribe speech-to-text model family. According to the ElevenLabs blog, Cue covers more than 90 benchmark languages, can process recordings of any length in a single pass, and takes about half a second to align one hour of audio on production GPUs; on benchmarks across 29 languages, its accuracy is higher than that of all alignment tools tested by ElevenLabs. The model is also available separately through the Forced Alignment API. There is currently no information on further developments.
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ElevenLabs Releases Forced Alignment Model Cue, Supporting Character-Level Audio Timestamps
ElevenLabs has released the forced alignment model Cue, which can pinpoint the exact time point for each character in audio and has already been used in the Scribe speech-to-text model family. Cue covers more than 90 benchmark languages, processes recordings of any length in a single pass, and takes about half a second to align 1 hour of audio on production GPUs; on benchmarks across 29 languages, its accuracy is higher than all alignment tools tested by ElevenLabs. The model is also available separately through the Forced Alignment API.