Releasesby IbisTranscription on OpenRouter
GA3 months agoUnverifiedAdded Sep 24, 2026
OpenRouter has introduced an audio transcription API at /api/v1/audio/transcriptions, supporting base64 audio input and returning JSON text.
Topics: LLMs
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