Speechmatics ASR REST API

Overview 3.6.0

The Speechmatics Automatic Speech Recognition REST API is used to submit ASR jobs and receive the results. The supported job types are transcription of audio files, and alignment of audio files with existing transcripts to add word or line timings.

Version information

Version: 1.1.0

Contact information

Contact Email: support@speechmatics.com

License information

Terms of service : https://www.speechmatics.com/terms-and-conditions/

URI scheme

BasePath : /v1 Schemes : HTTP

Paths

The base URL http://${APPLIANCE_HOST}:8082/v1/user/1/ is used for REST Speech API requests. If you are using the secure Speech API, the base URL is: https://${APPLIANCE_HOST}/v1/user/1/. The user ID component can be any positive integer; by convention we use 1 for all requests.

/jobs

Requests without a job ID component are used to create a new job, or to return a list of all submitted jobs.

POST

Summary: Create a new job.

Parameters

Name	Located in	Description	Required	Schema
config	formData	JSON containing a JobConfig model indicating the type and parameters for the recognition job.	Yes	string
data_file	formData	The data file to be processed. Alternatively the data file can be fetched from a url specified in JobConfig.	No	file

Responses

Code	Description	Schema
201	OK	CreateJobResponse
400	Bad request	ErrorResponse
401	Unauthorized	ErrorResponse
403	Forbidden	ErrorResponse
500	Internal Server Error	ErrorResponse

GET

Summary: List all jobs.

Responses

Code	Description	Schema
200	OK	RetrieveJobsResponse
401	Unauthorized	ErrorResponse
500	Internal Server Error	ErrorResponse

/jobs/{jobid}

Requests with a job ID component are used to view the status, transcript or audio data for a job, or remove a given job from the system.

GET

Summary: Get job details, including progress and any error reports.

Parameters

Name	Located in	Description	Required	Schema
jobid	path	ID of the job.	Yes	string

Responses

Code	Description	Schema
200	OK	RetrieveJobResponse
401	Unauthorized	ErrorResponse
404	Not found	ErrorResponse
500	Internal Server Error	ErrorResponse

DELETE

Summary: Delete a job and remove all associated resources.

Parameters

Name	Located in	Description	Required	Schema
jobid	path	ID of the job to delete.	Yes	string

Responses

Code	Description	Schema
200	The job that was deleted.	DeleteJobResponse
401	Unauthorized	ErrorResponse
404	Not found	ErrorResponse
500	Internal Server Error	ErrorResponse

/jobs/{jobid}/data

GET

Summary: Get the data file used as input to a job.

Parameters

Name	Located in	Description	Required	Schema
jobid	path	ID of the job.	Yes	string

Responses

Code	Description	Schema
200	OK	file
401	Unauthorized	ErrorResponse
404	Not found	ErrorResponse
500	Internal Server Error	ErrorResponse

/jobs/{jobid}/transcript

GET

Summary: Get the transcript for a transcription job.

Parameters

Name	Located in	Description	Required	Schema
jobid	path	ID of the job.	Yes	string
format	query	The transcripton format (by default the json-v2 format is returned).	No	string

Responses

Code	Description	Schema
200	OK	RetrieveTranscriptResponse
401	Unauthorized	ErrorResponse
404	Not found	ErrorResponse
500	Internal Server Error	ErrorResponse

Models

ErrorResponse

Name	Type	Description	Required
code	integer	The HTTP status code.	Yes
error	string	The error message.	Yes
detail	string	The details of the error.	No

TranscriptionConfig

Name	Type	Description	Required
language	string	Language model to process the audio input, normally specified as an ISO language code	Yes
additional_vocab	[object]	List of custom words or phrases that should be recognized. Alternative pronunciations can be specified to aid recognition.	No
punctuation_overrides	[object]	Control punctuation settings.	No
diarization	string	Specify whether speaker or channel labels are added to the transcript. The default is none.	No
channel_diarization_labels	[string]	Transcript labels to use when using collating separate input channels.	No

For the diarization parameter, the following values are valid:

Value	Description
none	no speaker or channel labels are added.
speaker	speaker attribution is performed based on acoustic matching; all input channels are mixed into a single stream for processing.
channel	multiple input channels are processed individually and collated into a single transcript.
speaker_change	the output indicates when the speaker in the audio changes. No speaker attribution is performed. This is a faster method than speaker. The reported speaker changes may not agree with speaker.
channel_and_speaker_change	both channel and speaker_change are switched on. The speaker change is indicated if more than one speaker are recorded in one channel.

OutputConfig

If you want the transcription output to be in the SubRip Title (SRT) format, and you want to alter the default parameters Speechmatics provides you must provide the output_confiog within the config object

output_config

Name	Type	Description	Required
srt_overrides	object	Parameters to override the default parameters for SubRip (srt) subtitle format. - max_line_length: sets maximum count of characters per subtitle line including white space (default: 37). -max_lines: sets maximum number of lines per subtitle segment (default: 2).	No

JobConfig

JSON object that contains various groups of job configuration parameters. Based on the value of type, a type-specific object such as transcription_config is required to be present to specify all configuration settings or parameters needed to process the job inputs as expected.

Name	Type	Description	Required
type	string		Yes
transcription_config	TranscriptionConfig		Yes

CreateJobResponse

In the job response you will see balance and cost values returned, but these are not used by the appliance; they are only maintained for backwards compatibility with the legacy V1 SaaS, and should be ignored by clients.

Name	Type	Description	Required
id	string	The unique ID assigned to the job. Keep a record of this for later retrieval of your completed job.	Yes
balance	integer	Not used	No
cost	integer	Not used	No

JobDetails

Name	Type	Description	Required
created_at	dateTime	The UTC date time the job was created.	Yes
data_name	string	Name of the data file submitted for job.	Yes
duration	integer	The file duration (in seconds). May be missing for fetch URL jobs.	No
id	string	The unique id assigned to the job.	Yes
status	string	The status of the job. running - The job is actively running. done - The job completed successfully. rejected - The job was accepted at first, but later could not be processed by the transcriber. deleted - The user deleted the job. * expired - The system deleted the job. Usually because the job was in the done state for a very long time.	Yes
config	JobConfig		Yes

RetrieveJobsResponse

Name	Type	Description	Required
jobs	[JobDetails]		Yes

RetrieveJobResponse

Name	Type	Description	Required
job	JobDetails		Yes

DeleteJobResponse

Name	Type	Description	Required
job	JobDetails		Yes

JobInfo

Summary information about an ASR job, to support identification and tracking.

Name	Type	Description	Required
created_at	dateTime	The UTC date time the job was created.	Yes
data_name	string	Name of data file submitted for job.	Yes
duration	integer	The data file audio duration (in seconds).	Yes
id	string	The unique id assigned to the job.	Yes

RecognitionMetadata

Summary information about the output from an ASR job, comprising the job type and configuration parameters used when generating the output.

Name	Type	Description	Required
created_at	dateTime	The UTC date time the transcription output was created.	Yes
type	string		Yes
transcription_config	TranscriptionConfig		No

RecognitionDisplay

Name	Type	Description	Required
direction	string		Yes

RecognitionAlternative

List of possible job output item values, ordered by likelihood.

Name	Type	Description	Required
content	string		Yes
confidence	float		Yes
language	string		Yes
display	RecognitionDisplay		No
speaker	string		No

RecognitionResult

An ASR job output item. The primary item types are word and punctuation. Other item types may be present, for example to provide semantic information of different forms.

Name	Type	Description	Required
channel	string		No
start_time	float		Yes
end_time	float		Yes
type	string	New types of items may appear without being requested; unrecognized item types can be ignored.	Yes
alternatives	[RecognitionAlternative]		Yes

RetrieveTranscriptResponse

Name	Type	Description	Required
format	string	Speechmatics JSON transcript format version number.	Yes
job	JobInfo		Yes
metadata	RecognitionMetadata		Yes
results	[RecognitionResult]		Yes