Audio Transcribe
by api.manylives.me in AI models & inference
Speech to text (Whisper large v3 turbo): send a public audio URL or base64 audio (mp3, wav, m4a, ogg, webm; up to about 10 minutes), get the transcript with detected language and timed segments.
https://api.manylives.me/paid/audio/transcribe- Price
- $0.01
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 480 ms
- 597 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 51 min ago, next any minute now
Reliability
How to call it
POST https://api.manylives.me/paid/audio/transcribe
Each call costs $0.01 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://api.manylives.me/paid/audio/transcribe
content-type: application/json
{
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/En-us-hello.ogg"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
audio_base64 | string | No | the audio, base64 (max ~700 KB in a request body; use url for larger files) |
language | string | No | optional language code, e.g. en |
url | string | No | public https:// link to the audio (or audio_base64) |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"duration_s": 3.4,
"language": "en",
"segments": [
{
"end": 3.4,
"start": 0,
"text": "Thanks for calling, the order shipped this morning."
}
],
"text": "Thanks for calling, the order shipped this morning."
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.01.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.manylives.me/paid/audio/transcribe' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/En-us-hello.ogg"}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.manylives.me/paid/audio/transcribe' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/En-us-hello.ogg"}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.manylives.me%2Fpaid%2Faudio%2Ftranscribe&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.manylives.me/paid/audio/transcribe", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/En-us-hello.ogg"
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://api.manylives.me/paid/audio/transcribe",
json={
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/En-us-hello.ogg",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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