Mastering Audio Transcription With Gemini APIs: A Developer's Guide

Gemini models are multimodal AI capable of processing various data types, including audio. Their audio transcription feature allows conversion of spoken words into text. This capability is useful for developing transcription services, video subtitles, and voice applications. The guide will demonstrate audio transcription using different Gemini APIs. Gemini supports WAV, MP3, AIFF, AAC, OGG, and FLAC audio formats. Three primary APIs for this task are generateContent, streamGenerateContent, and BidiGenerateContent (LiveAPI). The generateContent API is a standard endpoint returning a single, complete response. streamGenerateContent utilizes server-sent events for delivering partial responses as they are generated. This makes streamGenerateContent ideal for interactive applications like chatbots.