GoTranscript Transcription API

Name: GoTranscript Transcription API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecAI/MLSpeechapiKey10 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Submit audio and video files to GoTranscript for human or AI transcription, captioning, subtitling, translation, and forced alignment, and look up order status by ID.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the GoTranscript Transcription API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the GoTranscript Transcription API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with GoTranscript Transcription API.

Submit a file URL for human-graded transcription with speaker labels and timestamps

Order AI transcription for fast turnaround at lower cost than human jobs

Generate captions or subtitles in multiple supported languages from a media file

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View OpenAPI Document

The GoTranscript Transcription API submits audio and video files for human-graded transcription, AI transcription, proofreading, translation, captioning, subtitling, and forced alignment. Orders are placed by POSTing job parameters to dedicated endpoints (such as /transcriptions, /ai-transcriptions, and /captions) and results are returned via callback URLs. The API also exposes language enumeration and order lookup endpoints so clients can validate input options and check job state. Authentication uses an API token passed as the api_token query parameter.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use GoTranscript Transcription API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Podcast Transcription Pipeline

Each new podcast episode is published to a storage URL and a transcription job is opened automatically. POST /transcriptions submits the file and the result is delivered to a callback URL once the human or AI transcript is ready. Turnaround depends on tier — minutes for AI, hours to days for human-graded — but the API surface is the same.

Submit https://example.com/episode-42.mp3 for human transcription with English source and request the result at callback URL https://example.com/callbacks/gotranscript.

Video Captioning at Scale

Marketing teams generate burned-in or sidecar captions for video libraries by POSTing each video to /captions or /subtitles. The API accepts the source language and target output format, and returns the deliverable to the callback URL. Useful for pushing accessibility coverage across hundreds of clips without manual upload.

Submit a captioning job for https://example.com/clip.mp4 with English source language and request SRT output to a callback URL.

Multilingual Transcript Translation

Once an English transcript is in hand, /translations creates a target-language version without re-transcribing the audio. This is faster and cheaper than transcribing again from the original file in each language. Common pairing: AI transcription first to get the source text, then human-quality translation for the target language.

Translate transcription order 555 from English into Spanish and return the order ID for the translation job.

AI Agent Transcription Service

An AI agent built on Jentic accepts a URL or file and decides — based on the user's latency and quality requirements — whether to call AI or human transcription. The agent searches Jentic for 'transcribe an audio file', loads the appropriate GoTranscript operation schema, and submits the order without exposing the api_token.

Use Jentic to search 'transcribe an audio file' and submit https://example.com/call.mp3 for AI transcription with English source language.

Key Endpoints

10 endpoints — the gotranscript transcription api submits audio and video files for human-graded transcription, ai transcription, proofreading, translation, captioning, subtitling, and forced alignment.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/transcriptions

Submit a human-graded transcription order

POST

/ai-transcriptions

Submit an AI transcription order

POST

/captions

Generate captions for a media file

POST

/subtitles

Generate subtitles for a media file

POST

/translations

Translate an existing transcription

POST

/forced-alignment

Run forced alignment between audio and a transcript

GET

/orders

List all orders on the account

GET

/orders/{orderId}

Look up a single order by ID

POST

/transcriptions

Submit a human-graded transcription order

POST

/ai-transcriptions

Submit an AI transcription order

POST

/captions

Generate captions for a media file

POST

/subtitles

Generate subtitles for a media file

POST

/translations

Translate an existing transcription

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

GoTranscript api_token query secrets are stored encrypted in Jentic's vault. Jentic injects the token into the request URL at execution time, so the secret never appears in the agent's prompt or logs.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'transcribe an audio file' or 'caption a video') and Jentic returns the right GoTranscript operation with its input schema, so the agent picks AI vs human routes by parameter rather than by URL choice.

Time to first call

Direct GoTranscript integration: 1-2 days for callback handling, retry, and order polling. Through Jentic: under 1 hour to a working transcription submission and order lookup.

FAQs

Specific to using GoTranscript Transcription API through Jentic.

What authentication does the GoTranscript Transcription API use?

The GoTranscript API uses an API key passed as the api_token query parameter on each request. When called through Jentic, the api_token is stored encrypted in Jentic's vault and is appended to outgoing requests at execution time so the agent never embeds it in code.

Can I order both AI transcription and human transcription with the GoTranscript API?

Yes. POST /ai-transcriptions submits AI-only jobs for fast, lower-cost output and POST /transcriptions submits human-graded jobs. POST /transcription-proofreading submits an AI draft for human review when you want both speed and accuracy.

What are the rate limits for the GoTranscript Transcription API?

Specific rate limits are not declared in the OpenAPI spec. Order submission is typically modest in volume per account, so a small number of concurrent submissions is expected to be safe. Honor HTTP 429 responses with exponential backoff.

How do I submit a transcription job through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'transcribe an audio file', load the POST /transcriptions operation, and execute with the file URL, source language, and callback URL in the request body. With pip install jentic, the call is a three-step search, load, execute flow.

How do I check the status of a GoTranscript order?

GET /orders/{orderId} returns the state of a single order along with deliverable metadata once the job completes. GET /orders lists orders on the account so an agent can poll for completed jobs without holding individual order IDs.

Does the GoTranscript API deliver results synchronously or by callback?

Results are delivered asynchronously via the callback URL provided in the submission. The POST endpoint returns an order ID immediately, and the deliverable is sent to the callback once transcription, translation, captioning, or alignment completes.

GoTranscript Transcription API

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Capabilities

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Use Cases

Key Endpoints

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