openclip-transcription

Upload the file with create_upload, PUT the raw bytes to the returned upload_url, then call transcribe with the upload id. Poll get_tool_job_status every 5 to 10 seconds until the job completes and returns JSON, SRT, and VTT output URLs.

Run the transcribe tool on your uploaded video and wait for the job to complete. The completed job returns permanent CDN output URLs, one per format, so you can hand the user the srt URL directly as a ready subtitle file.

Yes, the transcribe tool labels who is speaking by default through the diarize parameter. Turn it off for single-speaker audio to keep the output clean, or leave it on to group JSON segments by speaker.

Yes, pass the language parameter to transcribe, for example language="nl" for Dutch. Omitting it triggers auto-detection, but setting it explicitly prevents misdetection on short or noisy clips.

transcribe is the free tool that works on any freshly uploaded file. get_transcript reads transcripts from videos that already went through the paid clipping pipeline and supports start_ms and end_ms windows at sentence or word level.

Transcription is asynchronous and never returns text synchronously. The transcribe call returns a tool_job id, and you must poll get_tool_job_status until it reaches completed, failed, or returns an error.