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Error using StringIO in audio transcription #243

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@leejarvis

Hello,

According to the documentation for OpenAI::Resources::Audio::Transcriptions#create, the file parameter accepts StringIO. However, I'm unable to get this to work (similarly, it says it also accepts a String, but I can't get that to work either).

Here's an example:

require "openai"

file = File.open(ARGV[0])
stringio = StringIO.new(File.binread(ARGV[0]), "rb")

client = OpenAI::Client.new
transcription = client.audio.transcriptions.create(model: "gpt-4o-transcribe", file: stringio)

puts transcription.text

It works OK for the file object, but not the stringio object, which raises the following error:

{:url=>"https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions", :status=>400, :body=>{:error=>{:message=>"Unsupported file format", :type=>"invalid_request_error", :param=>"file", :code=>"unsupported_value"}}} (OpenAI::Errors::BadRequestError)

Am I missing something or should this work?

The file I'm using is the wav sample here: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/pavanelisetty/sample-audio-files-for-speech-recognition

Thank you

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