Transcribe
by Sift Web Tools in AI models & inference
Speech to text from an audio or video file URL (up to 5 minutes), with timestamps, SRT or VTT. Transcribes speech in an audio or video file (mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, webm and more; up to 80 MB and 5 minutes) with OpenAI Whisper running on our own servers. Auto-detects the language (99 languages). Returns text with segment timestamps, or ready-made SRT or VTT subtitles.
https://sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/v1/transcribe- Price
- $0.02
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 94.1%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 195 ms
- 315 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/v1/transcribe
Each call costs $0.02 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.
GET https://sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/v1/transcribe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud%2Fsamples%2Fspeech.mp3Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
format | string | No | json, text, srt or vtt (default json) |
language | string | No | Two-letter language code, e.g. en (default auto-detect) |
url | string | Yes | Audio or video file URL |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"duration_s": 4.1,
"language": "en",
"segments": [
{
"end": 3.2,
"start": 0,
"text": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
}
],
"text": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/v1/transcribe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud%2Fsamples%2Fspeech.mp3'
# 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 - 'https://sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/v1/transcribe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud%2Fsamples%2Fspeech.mp3' \
| 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 $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
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 $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud%2Fv1%2Ftranscribe
const res = await pay("https://sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/v1/transcribe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud%2Fsamples%2Fspeech.mp3");
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 $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/v1/transcribe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud%2Fsamples%2Fspeech.mp3")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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