Question: What does Rev provide?
Rev provide the Online audio transcription, video captions and document translation services.
Question: What type of transcription they provide?
They provide transcription like immigration, business, legal, academic and personal needs.
Question: How much they charge?
Rev charges $1 per minute of audio. For example, a 30 minute clip costs $30.00. Timestamps and verbatim are options that cost $0.25 per minute each.
Question: How long will it take?
Audio files under 30 minutes long with good quality audio are typically delivered within 12 hours.
Question: Do they provide timestamps?
Yes, $0.25 per minute.
Question: What type of file format they accept?
We accept audio and video recordings in MP3, MP4, WMV, AIF, M4A, MOV, AVI, VOB, AMR, WMA, OGG, AAC, and WAV.
Question: What is endpoint for sandbox API?
https://api-sandbox.rev.com
Question: What is endpoint for Rev API?
https://www.rev.com
Question: What is documentation URL of API?
https://www.rev.com/api
Question: How to send order online for audio/video transcription?
Step 1
- Upload a source file to be used in an order via i.e. /api/v1/inputs
- Curl Example
curl -X POST
https://api-sandbox.rev.com/api/v1/inputs
-H 'authorization: AUTHORIZATION_STRING_HERE'
-H 'cache-control: no-cache'
-H 'content-type: application/json'
-H 'postman-token: d6eee4bb-84ef-d54b-d15d-9ac9b3230fc2'
-d '{
"url": "https://useastpacificgeorama.blob.core.windows.net/useastpacifiddc/GM-qE2zq-1078-5525_720p.mp4"
}'
Response Headers
Location – URI identifying the newly uploaded media. This URI can be used to identify this media when submitting an order.
Step 2
- Now order online i.e. /api/v1/orders
- Curl Example
curl -X POST
https://api-sandbox.rev.com/api/v1/orders
-H 'authorization: AUTHORIZATION_STRING_HERE'
-H 'cache-control: no-cache'
-H 'content-type: application/json'
-H 'postman-token: 10fa5ba8-3739-c3f2-ace9-b115f3bb6f96'
-d '{
"client_ref": "Georama-OvanTest",
"transcription_options": {
"inputs": [
{
"audio_length_seconds": 194,
"uri": "urn:rev:inputmedia:U3VwbG9hZHMvMjAxOC0wNC0xMy8wMzQzOTY1MC0yMDVhLTQwMDYtYWZmMC01MjI0ZTdkNTQ2MTUvR00tcUUyenEtMTA3OC01NTI1XzcyMHAubXA0"
}
],
"verbatim": true,
"timestamps": true
},
"notification": {
"url": "http://example.com/callback/url",
"level": "Detailed"
}
}'
Response Headers
Location – URI identifying the newly created order. This URI can be used to request details (such as status) of the order. Only present if a 201 response code is returned.
Question: How rev will communicate to us once order is completed?
Once rev, received the request.
When they just start they will notify to us through callback function.
When they just complete they will notify to us through callback function.
All data will be sent in POST method, and have following parameters.
(
[order_number] => TD0648810924
[client_ref] => arunkumartest
[status] => Complete
)
Question: How to GET order details online?
We can get the order details with API using orderId.
For Example.
curl -X GET https://api-sandbox.rev.com/api/v1/orders/TD0648810924 -H 'accept: application/json' -H 'authorization: AUTHORIZATION_STRING_HERE' -H 'cache-control: no-cache' -H 'postman-token: aad7ead8-0b44-19b1-0f19-2b5baa4a2e6a'Response Body
{
"order_number": "TD0648810924",
"client_ref": "OvanTest",
"price": 4.86,
"status": "Complete",
"priority": "Normal",
"non_standard_tat_guarantee": false,
"transcription": {
"verbatim": true,
"timestamps": true,
"total_length": 3,
"total_length_seconds": 194
},
"comments": [
{
"by": "Georama I.",
"timestamp": "2018-04-13T11:57:14.97Z"
},
{
"timestamp": "2018-04-13T12:02:46.997Z",
"text": "Order delivered"
}
],
"attachments": [
{
"kind": "media",
"name": "GM-qE2zq-1078-5525_720p.mp4",
"id": "5HYQOsWDAwAAAAAA",
"audio_length_seconds": 194,
"links": [
{
"rel": "content",
"href": "https://api-sandbox.rev.com/api/v1/attachments/5HYQO2s2WDAwAAAAAA/content"
}
]
},
{
"kind": "transcript",
"name": "sample_transcription.docx",
"id": "5HYQOsqDAwAAAAAA",
"links": [
{
"rel": "content",
"href": "https://api-sandbox.rev.com/api/v1/attachments/5HYQO2sqDA2wAAAAAA/content",
"content-type": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document"
}
]
}
]
}
Question: How to get transcriptions?
curl -X GET https://api-sandbox.rev.com/api/v1/attachments/5HYQO2s2WDAwAAAAAA/content -H 'accept: application/rev-transcription' -H 'authorization: AUTHORIZATION_STRING_HERE' -H 'cache-control: no-cache' -H 'postman-token: 4376e40d-9e6e-1e5a-e937-6337b9e1ade2'
Response
{"speakers":[{"id":1,"name":"Adam","icon":null,"color":null,"colorCoordinates":null,"note":null},{"id":2,"name":"Mike","icon":null,"color":null,"colorCoordinates":null,"note":null}],"monologues":[{"id":1,"speaker":1,"spans":[{"type":0,"value":"This is a sample first line"}],"startTime":null},{"id":2,"speaker":2,"spans":[{"type":0,"value":"This is a sample second line"}],"startTime":null}],"segments":[],"versionNumber":0,"offsetSeconds":0,"id":50,"name":"test.txt","metadata":{}}
