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elevenlabs Speech to Text API

Endpoints for converting audio into text transcriptions with support for multiple languages and audio formats.

elevenlabs Speech to Text API is one of 22 APIs that elevenlabs publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Speech to Text. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an AsyncAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.elevenlabs.io.

2 operations 2 paths 6 schemas 2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.elevenlabs.io
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

elevenlabs Speech to Text API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as xi-api-key (apiKeyAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiKeyAuth — ElevenLabs API key passed in the xi-api-key header for authentication.

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Speech to Text 2

Endpoints for converting audio into text transcriptions with support for multiple languages and audio formats.

POST
/v1/speech-to-text
Convert speech to text
convertSpeechToText body → 200400401422
POST
/v1/speech-to-text/async
Convert speech to text asynchronously
convertSpeechToTextAsync body → 200400401422

Schemas 6

The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SpeechToTextRequest (5 properties), TranscriptionResponse (5 properties), TranscriptionWord (4 properties), SpeechToTextAsyncRequest (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TranscriptionResponse
object
5 properties
SpeechToTextRequest
object
5 properties 1 required
SpeechToTextAsyncRequest
object
4 properties 1 required
AudioEvent
object
3 properties
AsyncTranscriptionResponse
object
2 properties
TranscriptionWord
object
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

elevenlabs-speech-to-text-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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