Speech-to-Text API Guide

Overview

The Audio API provides two main endpoints:

📝 transcriptions: Audio to text

🔄 translations: Audio to English translation

Supported Formats

📁 File Size: Maximum 25 MB

🎵 Supported Formats: mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpg, m4a, wav, webm

How to use

1. Transcription

Convert audio to original language text

2. Translation

Convert audio in any language to English text.

3. Timestamp function

4. Processing Large Files

Use PyDub to split files larger than 25MB:

Optimization Suggestions

Tips for Using Prompts

🔍 Used to correct specific word recognition

📜 Maintain contextual coherence

✍️ Control punctuation output

🗣️ Retain filler words

📝 Control output text style (e.g., Simplified/Traditional Chinese)

Supported Languages

Supports 98 languages, including:

Major Asian languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.

European languages: English, French, German, etc.

Other regional languages: Arabic, Hindi, etc.

Note: Only languages with a Word Error Rate (WER) below 50% are listed. Other languages are supported, but the quality may be lower.

Using Python to convert speech to text

Speech-to-Text API Guide#

Overview#

Supported Formats#

How to use#

1. Transcription#

2. Translation#

3. Timestamp function#

4. Processing Large Files#

Optimization Suggestions#

Tips for Using Prompts#

Supported Languages#