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Automate AssemblyAI

Get speaker-labelled transcripts of calls, interviews and podcasts from AssemblyAI, and hear about each finished transcript without refreshing a dashboard. Jobs run in the background on AssemblyAI's side, and ClickRuntime picks up the result when it's ready. Describe it to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a webhook link for AssemblyAI. When a transcript completes, fetch it and email me the summary and a link; if it errors, email me the error instead.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in AssemblyAI

Text of who said what in your recordings, plus a note with the summary each time a transcript finishes or fails. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happens

Get an email when a transcript is ready

Each time AssemblyAI finishes a job you get its summary and a link, or the error if it failed.

See how it works
The moment it happens

Transcribe a recording with speaker labels

Send a link to an interview or call and get back the text, split by speaker, by email.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with AssemblyAI, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

See how to build your own

Build your own

Build any AssemblyAI automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what AssemblyAI should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Transcribe each new podcast episode with AssemblyAI and have AI pick three quotes and write chapter titles with timestamps.

For each new recording in a Dropbox folder, transcribe it with AssemblyAI and save the transcript to Google Docs.

When a new Zoom meeting recording is ready, transcribe it with AssemblyAI, add the summary to the HubSpot contact and post the action items in Slack.

Beyond chat

Have AssemblyAI work when you're not in the chat

Connecting AssemblyAI to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect AssemblyAI

You connect AssemblyAI with an API key from your own AssemblyAI dashboard. EU accounts use a key made for the EU region.

AssemblyAI

AI / Speech-to-text

  1. Sign in to AssemblyAI and open API Keys in your dashboard.
  2. Copy an existing key or create a new one. For EU data processing, use a key generated for the EU region.
  3. Note that AssemblyAI takes the raw key in the authorization header, with no Bearer prefix.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret. If it's an EU key, say so when you set up the automation.

Good to know

AssemblyAI limits that affect automations

  • Transcription is asynchronous. A job is submitted first and the text is fetched once AssemblyAI marks it complete.
  • Audio is given to AssemblyAI as a URL, so the recording must be publicly reachable.
  • EU keys only work against AssemblyAI's EU host, and uploads and transcripts must use the same project's key.

FAQ

Questions about automating AssemblyAI

What can ClickRuntime access in AssemblyAI?
What your API key can: submitting audio for transcription and reading the transcripts in that key's project.
Can it tell speakers apart?
Yes. The transcription automation asks AssemblyAI for speaker labels, so the email shows who said what.
How does it know a transcript is finished?
You give AssemblyAI a webhook link from ClickRuntime. When a transcript completes or errors, AssemblyAI calls it and the automation fetches the result straight away.
I'm on the EU region. Does that work?
Yes. Use a key created for the EU region; the automation then talks to AssemblyAI's EU host instead of the default one.
Do I need an AI key as well?
No. Transcription runs on your AssemblyAI key. Extra summarising or rewriting uses the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan.
Is this a AssemblyAI connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with AssemblyAI data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change AssemblyAI while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each AssemblyAI event.

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