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Speech-to-Text

Speech Transcription

Speech Transcription is a speech-to-text capability available through Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Groq on Aweb. Audio-to-text transcription with speaker diarization. Access it through a single unified API with automatic failover and intelligent routing.

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Best for

Highest quality

Deepgram, AssemblyAI

Premium tier

Most affordable

Groq

Economy tier

Contract

Max Latency10000ms

Providers (3)

ProviderScoreQualityPricing
Deepgram
80premiumstandard
AssemblyAIDEFAULT
95premiumstandard
Groq
88premiumeconomy

Quick start

Call Speech Transcription through Alfred — automatic provider selection, failover, and load balancing included.

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.alfred-ai.app/v1/execute \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ALFRED_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "capability": "stt.transcribe",
    "input": { "prompt": "Hello world" }
  }'

TypeScript

import { Alfred } from '@alfred/core';

const alfred = new Alfred({ apiKey: process.env.ALFRED_API_KEY });

// Alfred automatically selects the best provider
const result = await alfred.execute({
  capability: 'stt.transcribe',
  input: { prompt: 'Hello world' },
});

console.log(result.output);

Orchestration pipeline

import { Alfred } from '@alfred/core';

const alfred = new Alfred({ apiKey: process.env.ALFRED_API_KEY });

// Multi-step pipeline with automatic failover
const result = await alfred.orchestrate({
  steps: [
    { id: 'step1', capability: 'stt.transcribe', input: { prompt: 'Hello world' } },
    { id: 'step2', capability: 'llm.chat', dependsOn: ['step1'],
      input: { prompt: 'Summarize: $step1.output' } },
  ],
});
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