# Transcribe a media file

Transcribes one video or audio URL and returns the text, per-segment and per-word timestamps, and the detected language. A creative with no speech returns an empty transcript with `has_audio: false` rather than an error.

- Platform: Media
- Request: `POST https://api.toolzerhub.com/v1/media/transcribe`
- Auth: `x-api-key` header
- Cost: 5 credits per successful request. Failed requests are not billed.
- Page: https://docs.toolzerhub.com/reference/media/media-transcribe

## Example request

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.toolzerhub.com/v1/media/transcribe" \
  -H "x-api-key: $TOOLZERHUB_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'
```

Success responses are wrapped as `{ "data": ... }`. Errors return `{ "error": { "code", "status", "message", "retryable", "details" } }`. See https://docs.toolzerhub.com/docs/responses-and-errors.