Cohere Transcriptions API
The transcriptions API from Cohere — 1 operation(s) for transcriptions.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Cohere Transcriptions API
version: 1.0.0
servers:
- url: https://api.cohere.com
description: production
tags:
- name: transcriptions
paths:
/v2/audio/transcriptions:
post:
operationId: transcriptions_create
summary: Create a transcription
description: Transcribe an audio file.
tags:
- transcriptions
responses:
'200':
description: A successful response.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/audio_transcriptions_create_Response_200'
'400':
description: "This error is returned when the request is not well formed. This could be because:\n - JSON is invalid\n - The request is missing required fields\n - The request contains an invalid combination of fields\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestBadRequestError'
'401':
description: "This error indicates that the operation attempted to be performed is not allowed. This could be because:\n - The api token is invalid\n - The user does not have the necessary permissions\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestUnauthorizedError'
'403':
description: "This error indicates that the operation attempted to be performed is not allowed. This could be because:\n - The api token is invalid\n - The user does not have the necessary permissions\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestForbiddenError'
'404':
description: "This error is returned when a resource is not found. This could be because:\n - The endpoint does not exist\n - The resource does not exist eg model id, dataset id\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestNotFoundError'
'422':
description: "This error is returned when the request is not well formed. This could be because:\n - JSON is invalid\n - The request is missing required fields\n - The request contains an invalid combination of fields\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestUnprocessableEntityError'
'429':
description: Too many requests
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestTooManyRequestsError'
'498':
description: 'This error is returned when a request or response contains a deny-listed token.
'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestInvalidTokenError'
'499':
description: 'This error is returned when a request is cancelled by the user.
'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestClientClosedRequestError'
'500':
description: 'This error is returned when an uncategorised internal server error occurs.
'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestInternalServerError'
'501':
description: 'This error is returned when the requested feature is not implemented.
'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestNotImplementedError'
'503':
description: "This error is returned when the service is unavailable. This could be due to:\n - Too many users trying to access the service at the same time\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestServiceUnavailableError'
'504':
description: "This error is returned when a request to the server times out. This could be due to:\n - An internal services taking too long to respond\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Create-transcriptionRequestGatewayTimeoutError'
requestBody:
content:
multipart/form-data:
schema:
type: object
properties:
model:
type: string
description: ID of the model to use.
language:
type: string
description: The language of the input audio, supplied in [ISO-639-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes) format.
temperature:
type: number
format: double
description: The sampling temperature, between 0 and 1. Higher values like 0.8 make the output more random, while lower values like 0.2 make it more focused and deterministic.
file:
type: string
format: binary
description: The audio file object to transcribe. Supported file extensions are flac, mp3, mpeg, mpga, ogg, and wav.
required:
- model
- language
- file
security:
- bearerAuth: []
components:
schemas:
Create-transcriptionRequestUnauthorizedError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestUnauthorizedError
Create-transcriptionRequestNotFoundError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestNotFoundError
Create-transcriptionRequestUnprocessableEntityError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestUnprocessableEntityError
Create-transcriptionRequestForbiddenError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestForbiddenError
Create-transcriptionRequestInternalServerError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestInternalServerError
Create-transcriptionRequestGatewayTimeoutError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestGatewayTimeoutError
Create-transcriptionRequestTooManyRequestsError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestTooManyRequestsError
Create-transcriptionRequestBadRequestError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestBadRequestError
Create-transcriptionRequestClientClosedRequestError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestClientClosedRequestError
Create-transcriptionRequestNotImplementedError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestNotImplementedError
Create-transcriptionRequestServiceUnavailableError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestServiceUnavailableError
Create-transcriptionRequestInvalidTokenError:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
id:
type: string
title: Create-transcriptionRequestInvalidTokenError
audio_transcriptions_create_Response_200:
type: object
properties:
text:
type: string
description: The transcribed text.
required:
- text
title: audio_transcriptions_create_Response_200
securitySchemes:
bearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer