Venice Transcription (/audio/transcriptions)

Venice Transcription (/audio/transcriptions)

POST /api/v1/audio/transcriptions takes an audio file and returns text. It's OpenAI-compatible with multipart/form-data — the OpenAI SDK's audio.transcriptions.create() works unchanged.

Use when

• You need STT (speech-to-text) for voice notes, meetings, podcasts, short audio.
• You need word/segment timestamps for subtitles or chapters.
• You want to pick between Venice-hosted Parakeet, Whisper-family models, ElevenLabs Scribe, or xAI STT.

For video, there is no transcription endpoint any more — POST /video/transcriptions is retired and returns 410. Extract the audio track and send it here, or ask a video-capable chat model via venice-chat.

Minimal request

curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@./meeting.m4a" \
  -F "model=nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3" \
  -F "response_format=json" \
  -F "timestamps=false"

{ "text": "Alright everyone, let's kick off the meeting...", "duration": 184.2 }

With timestamps=true, the JSON also carries a timestamps object (see below).

Request (multipart/form-data)

Only the fields below are read; anything else in the form is ignored.