Select the Region | AssemblyAI

The default region is US, with base URL api.assemblyai.com. For EU data residency requirements, you can use our base URL for EU at api.eu.assemblyai.com.

The base URL for EU is currently only available for Async transcription and LeMUR.

Region	Base URL
US (default)	`api.assemblyai.com`
EU	`api.eu.assemblyai.com`

To use the EU endpoint, set the base URL for your requests as api.eu.assemblyai.com.

1 import assemblyai as aai
2 
3 aai.settings.api_key = "<YOUR_API_KEY>"
4 aai.settings.base_url = "https://api.eu.assemblyai.com"
5 
6 # audio_file = "./local_file.mp3"
7 audio_file = "https://assembly.ai/wildfires.mp3"
8 
9 config = aai.TranscriptionConfig()
10 
11 transcript = aai.Transcriber(config=config).transcribe(audio_file)
12 
13 if transcript.status == "error":
14   raise RuntimeError(f"Transcription failed: {transcript.error}")
15 
16 print(transcript.text)