Transcribe audio | EmpirioLabs AI Docs

Whisper / Deepgram / Parakeet. Accepts either a multipart file upload OR a JSON body with file_url. Long files (over 5 minutes) auto-route to the async job system; the response includes a job_id instead of inline text.

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Pass your EmpirioLabs API key as a bearer token. The Anthropic-style x-api-key header is also accepted on every endpoint.

Request

This endpoint expects a multipart form containing a file.

modelstringRequired

filefileRequired

response_formatenumOptionalDefaults to json

Allowed values:

timestamp_granularitiesstringOptional

languagestringOptional

translatebooleanOptionalDefaults to false

Response

Transcript (or job_id for long files).

object

JobAcceptedobject

$	curl -X POST https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
>	-H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>	-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
>	-F model="openai-whisper-1" \
>	-F file=@string

1	{
2	"text": "string",
3	"language": "string",
4	"duration": 1.1,
5	"segments": [
6	{}
7	]
8	}