experimental_streamTranscribe

Streams a transcript from live raw audio using a transcription model with streaming support.

import { experimental_streamTranscribe as streamTranscribe } from 'ai';
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';

const result = streamTranscribe({
  model: openai.transcription('gpt-realtime-whisper'),
  audio: audioStream, // ReadableStream<Uint8Array | string>
  inputAudioFormat: { type: 'audio/pcm', rate: 24000 },
});

for await (const part of result.fullStream) {
  if (part.type === 'transcript-delta') {
    process.stdout.write(part.delta);
  }
}

console.log(await result.text);

Import

import { experimental_streamTranscribe as streamTranscribe } from "ai"

API Signature

Parameters

• model (TranscriptionModelV4): The transcription model to use. The model must support streaming (doStream). String model IDs resolve through the global provider (AI Gateway by default), which supports streaming transcription for supported models (e.g. openai/gpt-realtime-whisper, xai/grok-stt): experimental_streamTranscribe({ model: 'openai/gpt-realtime-whisper', ... }).
• audio (ReadableStream<Uint8Array | string>): Raw audio chunks to transcribe. Uint8Array chunks contain raw audio bytes; string chunks contain base64-encoded raw audio bytes.
• inputAudioFormat ({ type: string; rate?: number }): The input audio format for the raw audio chunks, e.g. { type: "audio/pcm", rate: 24000 }. Supported types are provider-specific (e.g. audio/pcm, audio/pcmu, audio/pcma).
• providerOptions? (Record<string, JSONObject>): Additional provider-specific options.
• abortSignal? (AbortSignal): An optional abort signal to cancel the call.
• headers? (Record<string, string>): Additional HTTP/WebSocket headers, if supported by the provider.
• includeRawChunks? (boolean): When true, the provider includes raw provider chunks in the stream as raw parts.
• telemetry? (TelemetryOptions): Telemetry configuration. Experimental lifecycle callbacks use experimental_onStreamTranscriptionStart and experimental_onStreamTranscriptionEnd. The end event is emitted after the audio stream is consumed and includes the final input byte length.

Returns

• fullStream (AsyncIterableStream<TranscriptionStreamPart>): A single-consumer live stream of transcription parts: transcript-delta, transcript-partial, transcript-final, raw, and error. Access it once, before any result promise, when both stream parts and final results are needed. Accessing a result promise first consumes the stream internally and makes fullStream unavailable.
• text (Promise<string>): The complete transcribed text from the audio input.
• segments (Promise<Array<{ text: string; startSecond: number; endSecond: number }>>): Final transcript segments with timing information, if available.
• language (Promise<string | undefined>): The language of the transcript in ISO-639-1 format, if available.
• durationInSeconds (Promise<number | undefined>): The duration of the transcript in seconds, if available.
• warnings (Promise<Warning[]>): Warnings for the call, e.g. unsupported settings. Resolves when the provider emits the stream start.
• responses (Promise<Array<TranscriptionModelResponseMetadata>>): Response metadata (timestamp, model ID, headers).
• providerMetadata (Promise<Record<string, JSONObject>>): Additional provider-specific metadata.

Wire format (experimental)

Streaming transcription over WebSocket is serialized with the experimental transcription-stream envelope defined in @ai-sdk/provider-utils (experimental_parseTranscriptionStreamClientFrame, experimental_serializeTranscriptionStreamPart, experimental_parseTranscriptionStreamPart): the client sends one transcription-stream.start TEXT frame, audio as BINARY frames, and a transcription-stream.audio-done TEXT frame; each server TEXT frame is one JSON-serialized transcription stream part. AI Gateway implements the server side of this envelope.