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title: "How can I get speaker labels and timestamps from OpenAI audio transcription?"  
description: "How can I get speaker labels and timestamps from OpenAI audio transcription?"  
author: "Ruslan Galiev"  
published: 2026-10-22  
updated: 2026-10-22  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162841/how-can-i-get-speaker-labels-and-timestamps-from-openai-audio-transcription  
category: "Audio APIs"  
tags: ["OpenAI", "Audio APIs", "Speech-to-text"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How can I get speaker labels and timestamps from OpenAI audio transcription?

I’m building a feature that turns recorded interviews into searchable transcripts. A plain transcript is useful, but I also need to know who said each line and roughly when they said it.

What’s the best way to get **speaker labels and timestamps** from the OpenAI audio API? I’m especially curious whether diarization works reliably when speakers interrupt each other or have similar voices, and whether the output can be used directly for subtitle timing.


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