> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gladia.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Getting started

> Setup your Gladia account and start using the most reliable state-of-the-art Speech-To-Text API

<Steps titleSize="h2">
  <Step title="Setup account">
    ### Signing Up

    You will first need to create your account. Sign-up to [app.gladia.io](https://app.gladia.io/?utm_campaign=197609689-Website\&utm_source=documentation\&utm_content=sign-up). You can sign-up through Google
    and more sign-up methods will be available in the near feature.

    ### Get your API key

    Now that you signed up, login to app.gladia.io and go to the [API keys section](https://app.gladia.io/apikeys). We should have already
    created a default key for you. You can use this one or create your own.

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      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/gladia-95/dCtyYcUded_eabB9/assets/images/account-api-keys.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=dCtyYcUded_eabB9&q=85&s=1f2e37c25940ef956aa7476fdeba6ce8" width="2574" height="1030" data-path="assets/images/account-api-keys.png" />
    </Frame>

    <Tip>Gladia offers 10 Hours of free audio transcription per month if you want to test the service!</Tip>

    With your API key, you're now ready to use Gladia APIs.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start building with Gladia!">
    ### With our SDK / API

    Want to build your integration yourself ? Use our SDK or our API directly:

    <CardGroup cols={2}>
      <Card title="Transcribe live audio " icon="microphone-lines" href="/chapters/live-stt/quickstart">
        Quickstart with Real-Time transcription using Gladia.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Transcribe pre-recorded audio" icon="volume" href="/chapters/pre-recorded-stt/quickstart">
        Quickstart with Asynchronous transcription using Gladia.
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>

    ### With one of our partners

    If you want to build fast with Gladia, you can use one of our integration partners:

    <CardGroup cols={4}>
      <Card title="SDK" href="/chapters/integrations/sdk" arrow={false} horizontal={true} icon="gear-code">
        For built-in best practices
      </Card>

      <Card title="Pipecat" href="/chapters/integrations/pipecat" arrow={false} horizontal={true} icon="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/169612734?v=4">
        Framework for building voice AI agents
      </Card>

      <Card title="Livekit" arrow={false} horizontal={true} href="/chapters/integrations/livekit" icon="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D560BAQG70ZzfnXTBEQ/company-logo_200_200/company-logo_200_200/0/1715881752220/livekitco_logo?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=jYL_xNjGmSp54-mLXbuRcaUEUEZjkw7tMROhT_ckxB8">
        For real-time voice infrastructure
      </Card>

      <Card title="Vapi" arrow={false} horizontal={true} href="https://docs.vapi.ai/api-reference/assistants/create#request.body.transcriber.GladiaTranscriber" icon="https://prototyprio.gumlet.io/strapi/fc116b3e3ca6d86f7a6b366597a6da47png?w=3840&q=70&format=auto&compress=true&dpr=1">
        Platform for hosted voice AI agents
      </Card>

      <Card title="Recall" href="/chapters/integrations/recall" icon="https://cdn-b.saashub.com/images/app/service_logos/229/0tara8zfwrk0/large.png?1673278863">
        For meeting recorder / agents
      </Card>

      <Card title="Meeting Baas" href="/chapters/integrations/meeting-baas" icon="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/141436269?s=280&v=4">
        For meeting recorder / agents
      </Card>

      <Card title="Twilio" href="/chapters/integrations/twilio" icon="https://cdn.worldvectorlogo.com/logos/twilio.svg">
        To use Gladia with telephony
      </Card>

      <Card title="VideoSDK" href="/chapters/integrations/videosdk" arrow={false} icon="https://www.videosdk.live/blog/favicon/android-icon-192x192.png">
        For adding video/audio calls to your app
      </Card>

      <Card title="Composio" href="/chapters/integrations/composio" arrow={false} horizontal={true} icon="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/128464815?v=4">
        For connecting agents to external tools
      </Card>

      <Card title="Zapier" href="/chapters/integrations/zapier" arrow={false} horizontal={true} icon="https://cdn.worldvectorlogo.com/logos/zapier.svg">
        For no-code automation
      </Card>

      <Card title="Make" href="/chapters/integrations/make" arrow={false} horizontal={true} icon="https://parsio.io/_nuxt/image/021a3d.png">
        For no-code automation
      </Card>

      <Card title="n8n" href="/chapters/integrations/n8n" arrow={false} horizontal={true} icon="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45487711?v=4">
        For workflow automation
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Next steps

Now that you tested Gladia's basic transcription, you might want to extract data, enhance, translate or format your audio
transcriptions.

On top of its **Speech-to-text API**, Gladia provides a whole set of tools that you might want
to use for your particular use cases like:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Pre-recorded transcription features" icon="file-arrow-up" href="/chapters/pre-recorded-stt/features" arrow={false} horizontal={true} />

  <Card title="Realtime transcription features" icon="bolt" href="/chapters/live-stt/features" arrow={false} horizontal={true} />

  <Card title="Code samples" icon="file-code" href="https://github.com/gladiaio/gladia-samples" arrow={true} horizontal={true} />

  <Card title="API Reference" icon="code" href="/api-reference" arrow={false} horizontal={true} />
</CardGroup>