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Zapier Integration with AssemblyAI

Zapier is a workflow automation tool that lets you integrate various services together without requiring coding knowledge. You can use the AssemblyAI app for Zapier to transcribe audio inside your Zaps. With Zapier, you can transcribe audio and video files from different services, and output the transcript to other services.

Quickstart​

  1. 1

    In your Zap editor, add an action, search for AssemblyAI and select the AssemblyAI app.

    Change action Zapier screen, with AssemblyAI in search box.

  2. 2

    Next, configure the action. In the App & event tab, select Get Transcript for the Event dropdown, then click Continue.

    App & event Zapier tab with Event field set to "Get Transcript".

  3. 3

    Then, in the Account tab, click Sign in which will open a separate window. In the window, enter your AssemblyAI API key in API Key field, and click Yes, Continue to AssemblyAI. Back in the Zap editor, click Continue.

    Account Zapier tab where you are prompted to Connect AssemblyAI with a Sign in button.

  4. 4

    In the Action tab, enter the URL of the audio or video file you want to transcribe in the Audio URL field. The URL has to be publicly accessible. Click Continue.

    Action Zapier tab where you are prompted to enter the Audio URL to transcribe using AssemblyAI.

  5. 5

    Finally, you can test the action. The transcription may take some time, so the initial test data will be mostly unpopulated. Once the action completes, you can use all the fields returned by the action in subsequent steps. Due to Zapier's limitations, you can't test subsequent actions with the unpopulated fields.

    Test Zapier tab where you can see the output of the AssemblyAI Get Transcript action.

Additional resources​

You can learn more about using Zapier with AssemblyAI in these resources:

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