# API Setup - Audio

### Base Instance

This instance is the exact same as the text instance. Mindplug requires you to perform audio transcription on the client side and does not handle it server side. To perform transcription, the easiest method is to use Whisper from OpenAI. It takes in an audio file and returns a text string of all the audio content.

The steps for creating an audio transcription from audio files are outlined in the subpage.

{% code title="src/mindplugAPI.ts" overflow="wrap" lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
// Axios instance with mindplug auth
import axios from 'axios';

const mindplug = axios.create({
    baseURL: "https://connect.mindplug.io/api",
    headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": "Bearer <MINDPLUG_KEY>"
    }
});

 export default mindplug; 
```

{% endcode %}


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