> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.maxapi.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Audio & music

> Browse speech, transcription, sound effect, and music APIs.

Audio APIs may return a synchronous binary stream or an asynchronous music task. Check the documented response media type before parsing the body.

## Endpoint categories

| Use case                   | Common endpoint                                      | Response                         |
| -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| Speech to text             | `POST /v1/audio/transcriptions`, `POST /fish/v1/asr` | JSON text and timestamp segments |
| Audio translation          | `POST /v1/audio/translations`                        | JSON text                        |
| Text to speech             | `POST /v1/audio/speech`, `POST /fish/v1/tts`         | Binary audio stream              |
| Sound effects and lip sync | `/ent/v2/text2audio`, `/ent/v2/lip-sync`             | Asynchronous task                |
| Music and lyrics           | `/suno/*`                                            | Task ID, track, or lyric data    |

<Info>
  A TTS response is not JSON. Save the body as MP3, WAV, PCM, or Opus according to the `Content-Type` header and requested output format.
</Info>

## Music tasks

Suno API families expose separate submission, upload, lyric generation, and status endpoints. Create and retrieve a job with endpoints from the same version and path family.

<Card title="Handle asynchronous tasks" icon="clock" href="/en/guides/async-tasks">
  Add polling, timeout, and retry handling for music and audio jobs.
</Card>