audio.transcribe()

On-demand Transcription

Submit any public audio URL and get back a fully speaker-diarised, timestamped transcript in seconds. Ideal for agents that need to reason over specific recordings not yet in the Sonar index.

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02 — audio.transcribe()

Segment streaming for agents

Consume utterances as JSON events with optional word-level timestamps. Pipe the stream straight into your tool layer or buffer segments for summarisation — same schema whether the source is a podcast feed or a one-off courtroom archive.

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Sonar Transcribe PROCESSING
AI + a16z podcast artwork
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-a16z/id1740178076
AI + a16z · weekly podcast · word-level timestamps
Sonar transcribe API transcript streaming 
{  "type": "transcript.segment.created",  "audio_url": "podcasts.apple.com/.../ai-a16z",  "entry": {    "speaker_name": "Martin",    "timestamp": "00:04.120",    "confidence": 0.97,    "verbatim_utterance": "AI apps are becoming systems, not just prompts."  },  "format": "json",  "word_timestamps": true}