Create a transcription

POST/v2/audio/transcriptionsCreate a transcription

Transcribe an audio file.

Request body

required

multipart/form-data

object

filestring · binaryrequired

The audio file object to transcribe. Supported file extensions are flac, mp3, mpeg, mpga, ogg, and wav.

languagestringrequired

The language of the input audio, supplied in [ISO-639-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes) format.

modelstringrequired

ID of the model to use.

temperaturenumber

The sampling temperature, between 0 and 1. Higher values like 0.8 make the output more random, while lower values like 0.2 make it more focused and deterministic.

Example request

{
  "file": "binary",
  "language": "string",
  "model": "string",
  "temperature": 0
}

Responses

object

textstringrequired

The transcribed text.

Example response

{
  "text": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

object

idstring

messagestring

Example response

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

Examples

curl -X POST 'https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"file":"binary","language":"string","model":"string","temperature":0}'

const response = await fetch('https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"file":"binary","language":"string","model":"string","temperature":0}),
});
const data = await response.json();

const response = await fetch('https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: "{\"file\":\"binary\",\"language\":\"string\",\"model\":\"string\",\"temperature\":0}" });
console.log(await response.json());

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "POST",
    "https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions",
    headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
    data='{"file":"binary","language":"string","model":"string","temperature":0}',
)
print(response.json())

package main

import (
	"context"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"file":"binary","language":"string","model":"string","temperature":0}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "POST", "https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions", body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
}

<?php
$request = curl_init("https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "{\"file\":\"binary\",\"language\":\"string\",\"model\":\"string\",\"temperature\":0}");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']);
$response = curl_exec($request);
curl_close($request);

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions"))
    .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"file\":\"binary\",\"language\":\"string\",\"model\":\"string\",\"temperature\":0}"))
    .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

require 'net/http'

uri = URI("https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions")
request = Net::HTTPGenericRequest.new("POST", true, true, uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"file\":\"binary\",\"language\":\"string\",\"model\":\"string\",\"temperature\":0}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://api.cohere.com/v2/audio/transcriptions");
request.Content = new StringContent("{\"file\":\"binary\",\"language\":\"string\",\"model\":\"string\",\"temperature\":0}", Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);

{
  "text": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "id": "string",
  "message": "string"
}

Search documentation

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/finetuning

/models

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/batches

Operations

Create a transcription

Request body

Responses

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