---
title: "Create an AssemblyAI transcript"
method: POST
path: "/api/assemblyai/v2/transcript"
tags: ["multimodal"]
---

# Create an AssemblyAI transcript

`POST /api/assemblyai/v2/transcript`

Create an AssemblyAI transcript through Respan. Authorization contains the bare Respan API key for native AssemblyAI SDK compatibility; X-Assemblyai-Api-Key contains the AssemblyAI provider key.

## Headers

- `Authorization` string, required
- `X-Assemblyai-Api-Key` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `audio_url` string, uri, required

## Response `200`

Transcript job created.

- object

## Other responses

- `400` — Invalid request or missing AssemblyAI key.
- `401` — Invalid Respan API key.
- `402` — Insufficient credits.
- `424` — AssemblyAI failed.
- `429` — Rate limit exceeded.

## Changes

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- **2026-07-31** `c26d550029f8` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/keywordsai/apis/api-reference/changes/api/assemblyai/v2/transcript/post.md)

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