Audio

Learn how to turn audio into text or text into audio.source

Related guide: Speech to textsource

Create speech

post https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech

Generates audio from the input text.source

Request body

One of the available TTS models: tts-1 or tts-1-hdsource

The text to generate audio for. The maximum length is 4096 characters.source

The voice to use when generating the audio. Supported voices are alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, and shimmer. Previews of the voices are available in the Text to speech guide.source

The format to audio in. Supported formats are mp3, opus, aac, flac, wav, and pcm.source

The speed of the generated audio. Select a value from 0.25 to 4.0. 1.0 is the default.source

Returns

The audio file content.source

Example request
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curl https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "tts-1",
    "input": "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.",
    "voice": "alloy"
  }' \
  --output speech.mp3

Create transcription

post https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions

Transcribes audio into the input language.source

Request body

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

ID of the model to use. Only whisper-1 (which is powered by our open source Whisper V2 model) is currently available.source

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

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

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

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.source

The timestamp granularities to populate for this transcription. response_format must be set verbose_json to use timestamp granularities. Either or both of these options are supported: word, or segment. Note: There is no additional latency for segment timestamps, but generating word timestamps incurs additional latency.source

Example request
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curl https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
  -F file="@/path/to/file/audio.mp3" \
  -F model="whisper-1"
Response
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{
  "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."
}

Create translation

post https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/translations

Translates audio into English.source

Request body

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

ID of the model to use. Only whisper-1 (which is powered by our open source Whisper V2 model) is currently available.source

An optional text to guide the model's style or continue a previous audio segment. The prompt should be in English.source

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

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.source

Returns

The translated text.source

Example request
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curl https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/translations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
  -F file="@/path/to/file/german.m4a" \
  -F model="whisper-1"
Response
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{
  "text": "Hello, my name is Wolfgang and I come from Germany. Where are you heading today?"
}

The transcription object (JSON)

Represents a transcription response returned by model, based on the provided input.source

The transcribed text.source

OBJECT The transcription object (JSON)
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{
  "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."
}

The transcription object (Verbose JSON)

Represents a verbose json transcription response returned by model, based on the provided input.source

The language of the input audio.source

The duration of the input audio.source

The transcribed text.source

Extracted words and their corresponding timestamps.source

Segments of the transcribed text and their corresponding details.source

OBJECT The transcription object (Verbose JSON)
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{
  "task": "transcribe",
  "language": "english",
  "duration": 8.470000267028809,
  "text": "The beach was a popular spot on a hot summer day. People were swimming in the ocean, building sandcastles, and playing beach volleyball.",
  "segments": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "seek": 0,
      "start": 0.0,
      "end": 3.319999933242798,
      "text": " The beach was a popular spot on a hot summer day.",
      "tokens": [
        50364, 440, 7534, 390, 257, 3743, 4008, 322, 257, 2368, 4266, 786, 13, 50530
      ],
      "temperature": 0.0,
      "avg_logprob": -0.2860786020755768,
      "compression_ratio": 1.2363636493682861,
      "no_speech_prob": 0.00985979475080967
    },
    ...
  ]
}