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/
audio
/
transcriptions
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curl --request POST \
  --url https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "input_audio": {
    "data": "UklGRiQA...",
    "format": "wav"
  },
  "language": "en",
  "model": "openai/whisper-large-v3"
}
'
import requests

url = "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions"

payload = {
"input_audio": {
"data": "UklGRiQA...",
"format": "wav"
},
"language": "en",
"model": "openai/whisper-large-v3"
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
input_audio: {data: 'UklGRiQA...', format: 'wav'},
language: 'en',
model: 'openai/whisper-large-v3'
})
};

fetch('https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'input_audio' => [
'data' => 'UklGRiQA...',
'format' => 'wav'
],
'language' => 'en',
'model' => 'openai/whisper-large-v3'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions"

payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"input_audio\": {\n \"data\": \"UklGRiQA...\",\n \"format\": \"wav\"\n },\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"model\": \"openai/whisper-large-v3\"\n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"input_audio\": {\n \"data\": \"UklGRiQA...\",\n \"format\": \"wav\"\n },\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"model\": \"openai/whisper-large-v3\"\n}")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"input_audio\": {\n \"data\": \"UklGRiQA...\",\n \"format\": \"wav\"\n },\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"model\": \"openai/whisper-large-v3\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "text": "Hello, this is a test of OpenAI speech-to-text transcription.",
  "usage": {
    "cost": 0.000508,
    "input_tokens": 83,
    "output_tokens": 30,
    "seconds": 9.2,
    "total_tokens": 113
  }
}
{
"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 401,
"message": "Missing Authentication header"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 402,
"message": "Insufficient credits. Add more using https://openrouter.ai/credits"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 404,
"message": "Resource not found"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 429,
"message": "Rate limit exceeded"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
"message": "Internal Server Error"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 502,
"message": "Provider returned error"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 503,
"message": "Service temporarily unavailable"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 524,
"message": "Request timed out. Please try again later."
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 529,
"message": "Provider returned error"
}
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

API key as bearer token in Authorization header

Body

Speech-to-text request input. Accepts a JSON body with input_audio containing base64-encoded audio.

input_audio
object
required

Base64-encoded audio to transcribe

Example:
{ "data": "UklGRiQA...", "format": "wav" }
model
string
required

STT model identifier

Example:

"openai/whisper-large-v3"

language
string

ISO-639-1 language code (e.g., "en", "ja"). Auto-detected if omitted.

Example:

"en"

provider
object

Provider-specific passthrough configuration

temperature
number<double>

Sampling temperature for transcription

Example:

0

Response

Transcription result

STT response containing transcribed text and optional usage statistics

text
string
required

The transcribed text

Example:

"Hello, this is a test of OpenAI speech-to-text transcription. The weather is sunny today and the temperature is around 72 degrees."

usage
object

Aggregated usage statistics for the request

Example:
{
"cost": 0.000508,
"input_tokens": 83,
"output_tokens": 30,
"seconds": 9.2,
"total_tokens": 113
}