From 4655ac8e5c7d6840a36ad4e9651734689fed6fcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "rosetta-livekit-bot[bot]"
 <282703043+rosetta-livekit-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:47:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat(elevenlabs): add noVerbatim STT option

---
 .changeset/elevenlabs-no-verbatim.md |  5 +++++
 plugins/elevenlabs/src/stt.ts        | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/elevenlabs-no-verbatim.md

diff --git a/.changeset/elevenlabs-no-verbatim.md b/.changeset/elevenlabs-no-verbatim.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..391df6d38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/elevenlabs-no-verbatim.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@livekit/agents-plugin-elevenlabs': minor
+---
+
+Add ElevenLabs STT `noVerbatim` option.
diff --git a/plugins/elevenlabs/src/stt.ts b/plugins/elevenlabs/src/stt.ts
index d179752de..8ce15b35c 100644
--- a/plugins/elevenlabs/src/stt.ts
+++ b/plugins/elevenlabs/src/stt.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export interface STTOptions {
   httpSession?: STTHTTPSession;
   modelId?: ElevenLabsSTTModels | string;
   keyterms?: string[];
+  noVerbatim?: boolean;
 }
 
 interface ResolvedSTTOptions {
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ interface ResolvedSTTOptions {
   sampleRate: STTRealtimeSampleRates;
   serverVad?: VADOptions | null;
   keyterms?: string[];
+  noVerbatim: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface STTRecognizeOptions {
@@ -234,6 +236,7 @@ export class STT extends stt.STT {
       includeTimestamps,
       modelId,
       keyterms: opts.keyterms,
+      noVerbatim: opts.noVerbatim ?? false,
     };
     this.#session = opts.httpSession ?? {};
   }
@@ -347,6 +350,9 @@ export class STT extends stt.STT {
         form.append('keyterms', keyterm);
       }
     }
+    if (this.#opts.noVerbatim) {
+      form.append('no_verbatim', 'true');
+    }
 
     try {
       const fetchFn = this.#session.fetch ?? fetch;
@@ -428,6 +434,7 @@ export class STT extends stt.STT {
     tagAudioEvents?: boolean;
     serverVad?: VADOptions | null;
     keyterms?: string[];
+    noVerbatim?: boolean;
   }): void {
     if (opts.tagAudioEvents !== undefined) {
       this.#opts.tagAudioEvents = opts.tagAudioEvents;
@@ -441,10 +448,14 @@ export class STT extends stt.STT {
       this.#opts.keyterms = opts.keyterms;
     }
 
+    if (opts.noVerbatim !== undefined) {
+      this.#opts.noVerbatim = opts.noVerbatim;
+    }
+
     for (const ref of this.#streams) {
       const stream = ref.deref();
       if (stream) {
-        stream.updateOptions({ serverVad: opts.serverVad });
+        stream.updateOptions({ serverVad: opts.serverVad, noVerbatim: opts.noVerbatim });
       } else {
         this.#streams.delete(ref);
       }
@@ -494,13 +505,19 @@ export class SpeechStream extends stt.SpeechStream {
     );
   }
 
-  updateOptions(opts: { serverVad?: VADOptions | null }): void {
+  updateOptions(opts: { serverVad?: VADOptions | null; noVerbatim?: boolean }): void {
     if (opts.serverVad !== undefined) {
       this.#opts.serverVad = opts.serverVad;
       if (!this.#reconnectEvent.done) {
         this.#reconnectEvent.resolve();
       }
     }
+    if (opts.noVerbatim !== undefined) {
+      this.#opts.noVerbatim = opts.noVerbatim;
+      if (!this.#reconnectEvent.done) {
+        this.#reconnectEvent.resolve();
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   #onAudioDurationReport(duration: number): void {
@@ -688,6 +705,10 @@ export class SpeechStream extends stt.SpeechStream {
       params.push('include_timestamps=true');
     }
 
+    if (this.#opts.noVerbatim) {
+      params.push('no_verbatim=true');
+    }
+
     const baseURL = this.#opts.baseURL.replace('https://', 'wss://').replace('http://', 'ws://');
     const wsUrl = `${baseURL}/speech-to-text/realtime?${params.join('&')}`;
     const headers = { [AUTHORIZATION_HEADER]: this.#opts.apiKey };