How to get transcription separately for the user or from the assistant on Android? Vapi AI #support

How to get transcription separately for the user o...

deniel6

02/11/2025, 7:37 PM

Hey 👋 I'm using the Android SDK https://github.com/VapiAI/client-sdk-android, I'd like to display the chit-chat messages on the fly from the VAPI call. I use at the moment:

is Vapi.Event.Transcript -> println("Transcript: ${event.text}")

event specified in docs, but it gives only the transcription message itself, but does not give insights of which role it belongs to. Can you please help me to understand how to get the role as well? Thank you! 🙇‍♂️

deniel6

02/12/2025, 9:04 AM

@User 👋

Chiranjeet Mishra

02/12/2025, 11:50 AM

You can get the role in the conversation-update server message.

deniel6

02/12/2025, 12:35 PM

Vapi.Event.ConversationUpdate messages are not triggered by some reason during my call 🤔 do I need to do anything to enable them?

deniel6

02/12/2025, 3:23 PM

cc @User

Chiranjeet Mishra

02/12/2025, 9:02 PM

Not sure what you mean by Vapi.Event.ConversationUpdate, you will need to add it directly in Assistant section.

deniel6

02/12/2025, 9:46 PM

thanks 👍 let me try

deniel6

02/13/2025, 5:23 PM

I've checked, I can't add

conversation-update

message on client sdk side (it should be added by default according to the documentation). But it does not trigger.

deniel6

02/13/2025, 7:41 PM

So, your Android SDK does not support transcript messages. In order to suport that you need to add

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"transcript" -> Event.Transcript(jsonObject["transcript"] as String, jsonObject["role"] as String, jsonObject["transcriptType"] as String)

here https://github.com/VapiAI/client-sdk-android/blob/7a94a3ef0d6dcd1d8f934d7b9a40d409084c1721/app/src/main/java/ai/vapi/android/Vapi.kt#L341 please deliver this to engineers, as this is pretty important feature 🙇

deniel6

02/13/2025, 7:41 PM

and in some cases makes sdk unusable

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