Create transcription

Request

Authorization

Provide your bearer token in the

Authorization

header when making requests to protected resources.

Example:

Authorization: Bearer ********************

Header Params

Content-Type

string

required

Example:

multipart/form-data

Accept

string

required

Example:

application/json

Authorization

string

optional

Example:

Bearer {{YOUR_API_KEY}}

Body Params multipart/form-data

file

required

The audio file object (not file name) to transcribe, in one of these formats: mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, or webm.

model

string

required

ID of the model to use. Only whisper-1 is currently available.

Example:

whisper-1

prompt

string

optional

An optional text to guide the model's style or continue a previous audio segment. The prompt should match the audio language.

Example:

eiusmod nulla

response_format

string

optional

The format of the transcript output, in one of these options: json, text, srt, verbose_json, or vtt.

Example:

json

temperature

number

optional

The sampling temperature, between 0 and 1. Higher values like 0.8 will make the output more random, while lower values like 0.2 will make it more focused and deterministic. If set to 0, the model will use log probability to automatically increase the temperature until certain thresholds are hit.

Example:

0

language

string

optional

The language of the input audio. Supplying the input language in ISO-639-1 format will improve accuracy and latency.

Request samples

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

Go

PHP

Python

HTTP

C

C#

Objective-C

Ruby

OCaml

Dart

R

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
--form 'file=@""' \
--form 'model="whisper-1"'

Responses

🟢200OK

application/json

Body

text

string

required

Example

{
  "text": "Imagine the wildest idea that you've ever had, and you're curious about how it might scale to something that's a 100, a 1,000 times bigger. This is a place where you can get to do that."
}