Often times, developers will need to expose their AssemblyAI API Key in their client applications when establishing connections with our real-time streaming transcription API. Now, developers can create a temporary API token that expires in a customizable amount of time (similar to an AWS S3 Temporary Authorization URL) that can safely be exposed in the client applications and front-ends.

This will allow developers to create short-lived API tokens designed to be used securely in the browser, along with authorization within the query string!

For example, authenticating in the query parameters with a temporary token would look like so:

wss://api.assemblyai.com/v2/realtime/ws?sample_rate=16000&token={TEMP_TOKEN}

For more information, you can view our Docs!