What is Shenava v4 good for?

Accurate Persian transcription of meetings, interviews, podcasts and video, with speaker labels.

v4 is more accurate; v3 is cheaper. Choose v3 for large volumes where small errors are acceptable.

How do I access Shenava v4 from inside Iran?

Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Shenava v4: image generation model

Shenava v4 is a high-accuracy, Persian-first speech-to-text model. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Pricing:: $0.00399 / minute of audio
Type:: audio

Audio

Shenava v4 is the high-accuracy tier of Arpanet's Persian-first speech recognition. Send an audio or video file (mp3, wav, ogg, m4a, webm, mp4 or mov) and it returns the transcript, a version labelled by speaker and the detected language. Shenava v3 is the lower-price tier.

It is billed per minute of input audio, at the rate shown on this page. Through Hormouz you send the file as a link or data URI to POST /v1/predictions and read the transcript from the result.

Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Persian-first speech-to-text, high-accuracy tier. Send an audio or video file (mp3, wav, ogg, m4a, webm, mp4, mov) as input.audio (https URL or data: URI); returns the transcript, a speaker-labelled transcript and the detected language. Billed per minute of input audio.

Quickstart

# Create the prediction, then poll until succeeded
curl -s https://api.hormouz.net/v1/predictions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"version":"arpanet/shenava-v4","input":{"audio":"https://example.com/input.mp3"}}'

Specs

Vendor	Arpanet
Type	Audio
Context window	—
Pricing	$0.00399 / minute of audio
API	predictions

Code example

cURL

# Create the prediction, then poll until succeeded
curl -s https://api.hormouz.net/v1/predictions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"version":"arpanet/shenava-v4","input":{"audio":"https://example.com/input.mp3"}}'

Python

import requests
BASE = "https://api.hormouz.net/v1"
H = {"Authorization": "Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
r = requests.post(f"{BASE}/predictions", headers=H,
    json={"version": "arpanet/shenava-v4", "input": {"audio":"https://example.com/input.mp3"}})
print(r.json()["id"])

JavaScript

const BASE = "https://api.hormouz.net/v1";
const res = await fetch(`${BASE}/predictions`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ version: "arpanet/shenava-v4", input: {"audio":"https://example.com/input.mp3"} }),
});
const { id } = await res.json();

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FAQ

What is Shenava v4 good for?: Accurate Persian transcription of meetings, interviews, podcasts and video, with speaker labels.
Shenava v4 or v3?: v4 is more accurate; v3 is cheaper. Choose v3 for large volumes where small errors are acceptable.
How do I access Shenava v4 from inside Iran?: Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Updated 2026-10-13