Getting started

Setup your Gladia account and start using the most reliable state-of-the-art Speech-To-Text API

1. Setup account

   Signing Up

   You will first need to create your account. Sign-up to app.gladia.io. You can sign-up through Google and more sign-up methods will be available in the near feature.

   Get your API key

   Now that you signed up, login to app.gladia.io and go to the API keys section. We should have already created a default key for you. You can use this one or create your own.

   

   Gladia offers 10 Hours of free audio transcription per month if you want to test the service!

   With your API key, you’re now ready to use Gladia APIs.

2. Start building with Gladia!

   With our SDK / API

   Want to build your integration yourself ? Use our SDK or our API directly:

   Transcribe live audio

   Quickstart with Real-Time transcription using Gladia.

   Transcribe pre-recorded audio

   Quickstart with Asynchronous transcription using Gladia.

   With one of our partners

   If you want to build fast with Gladia, you can use one of our integration partners:

   SDK

   For built-in best practices

   

   Pipecat

   For vocal/AI agents

   

   Livekit

   For vocal/AI agents

   

   Vapi

   For vocal/AI agents

   

   Recall

   For meeting recorder / agents

   

   Meeting Baas

   For meeting recorder / agents

   

   Twilio

   To use Gladia with telephony

Next steps

Now that you tested Gladia’s basic transcription, you might want to extract data, enhance, translate or format your audio transcriptions.

On top of its Speech-to-text API, Gladia provides a whole set of tools that you might want to use for your particular use cases like:

Pre-recorded transcription features

Realtime transcription features

Code samples

API Reference