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title: "Can the OpenAI audio API label different speakers in a two-person recording?"  
description: "Can the OpenAI audio API label different speakers in a two-person recording?"  
author: "Ruslan Galiev"  
published: 2026-10-23  
updated: 2026-10-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162888/can-the-openai-audio-api-label-different-speakers-in-a-two-person-recording  
category: "Audio APIs"  
tags: ["OpenAI", "Audio API", "Speech-to-text"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Can the OpenAI audio API label different speakers in a two-person recording?

I’m looking at transcribing a recorded interview where both people speak naturally and sometimes interrupt each other. Can the OpenAI audio API return useful **speaker labels** as well as the transcript, or would I need a separate diarization step?

If you’ve tried this with real recordings, I’d be interested in how it handles short interjections and speakers with similar voices.


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