API cheat sheet

curl -X POST https://users.rime.ai/v1/rime-tts \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: audio/mpeg' \
  --output hello.mp3 \
  -d '{"text": "Hello from Rime.", "speaker": "astra", "modelId": "coda"}'

import asyncio, base64, json, os
import websockets  # pip install websockets

async def main():
    url = "wss://users-ws.rime.ai/ws3?speaker=astra&modelId=coda&audioFormat=mp3"
    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['RIME_API_KEY']}"}
    async with websockets.connect(url, additional_headers=headers) as ws:
        await ws.send(json.dumps({"text": "Hello from Rime over WebSockets."}))
        await ws.send(json.dumps({"operation": "eos"}))  # synthesize what's buffered, then close
        audio = b""
        async for raw in ws:
            event = json.loads(raw)
            if event["type"] == "chunk":
                audio += base64.b64decode(event["data"])
            elif event["type"] == "timestamps":
                print("words:", event["word_timestamps"]["words"])
            elif event["type"] == "done":
                break
    with open("output.mp3", "wb") as f:
        f.write(audio)
    print(f"saved {len(audio)} bytes to output.mp3")

asyncio.run(main())

# Voice names, keyed by modelId then ISO 639-2 language code
curl https://users.rime.ai/data/voices/all-v2.json

# Full metadata per voice (gender, age, dialect, language, flagship flag, …)
curl https://users.rime.ai/data/voices/voice_details.json

curl -X POST https://users.rime.ai/oov \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"text": "hello kubectl blorbify"}'
# → ["kubectl","blorbify"]

curl -X POST https://optimize.rime.ai/textnorm \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"text": "Call 1-800-444-4141 on 3/4/2026"}'
# → {"normalized":"Call one, eight hundred, four four four, four one four one on march fourth twenty twenty six"}