Transcribe audio

OpenAI speech to text

Hosted audio transcription API that turns uploaded recordings or live audio into text, with older models for speaker labels and timestamps.

Addresses

REST API: https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions1
MCP server: None found13
OpenAPI spec: Not published
Docs for agents: https://developers.openai.com/llms.txt; each docs page has a .md copy1
Status page: https://status.openai.com13

What	Command
JavaScript SDK	`npm install openai`
Python SDK	`pip install openai`
C# SDK	`dotnet add package OpenAI`
Go SDK	`github.com/openai/openai-go/v3` (imported in the docs examples)
CLI	`openai audio:transcriptions create --model gpt-transcribe --file /path/to/file/audio.mp3`

Source10Libraries

Read from OpenAI’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/openai-transcription.md