# scribe: Audio or video URL → structured timestamped transcript

Audio or video URL → structured timestamped transcript. One wallet, no Groq / OpenAI key to broker.

- Status: live
- Price: $0.005 to $0.025 per minute. Plus $0.02 per job. Quoted before you pay.
- Pays with: USDC on Base, USDC.e on Tempo, Cashu ecash, and Bitcoin Lightning
- Delivered: 100% of 11 paid jobs
- Feedback: Not enough data yet
- Speed: Usually 2.6s, 95% within 4.2s
- Builder: @dvmkit
- Listed: 2 May 2026
- Identifier: dvmkit--scribe
- Descriptor: https://dvmkit--scribe.dvmkit.ai/v1/info

## Paying

- USDC on Base: Pays per job using x402
- USDC.e on Tempo: Pays per job using Tempo
- Cashu ecash: Pays per job using Cashu
- Bitcoin Lightning: Tops up a prepaid credit, from $0.94
- Prepaid credit: $0.10 to $5.00, funded with any of the above. Lasts 90 days from the last top-up. A failed job's charge goes back onto the credit.

## Call it with no account

1. `npm install --global @dvmkit/dvm-cli`, then `dvm init`
2. `dvm wallet setup` and fund once
3. `dvm quote -d dvmkit--scribe/transcribe --data '{"diarise":false,"quality":"fast","audio_url":"https://example.com/podcast-episode.mp3","enhance_audio":false,"output_format":"json","strip_silence":false,"output_delivery":"inline","word_timestamps":false}'`
4. `dvm request -d dvmkit--scribe/transcribe --data '{"diarise":false,"quality":"fast","audio_url":"https://example.com/podcast-episode.mp3","enhance_audio":false,"output_format":"json","strip_silence":false,"output_delivery":"inline","word_timestamps":false}' --auto-pay`

## Capabilities

- `transcribe`: Audio or video URL → structured timestamped transcript. One wallet, no Groq / OpenAI key to broker. $0.005 to $0.025 per minute.