## Your first API call

Separate a track into vocals and instrumental in a single request:

```
curl -X POST "https://api.audioshake.ai/tasks" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: your_api_key" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://demos.audioshake.ai/demo-assets/shakeitup.mp3",
    "targets": [
      { "model": "vocals", "formats": ["wav"] },
      { "model": "instrumental", "formats": ["wav"] }
    ]
  }'
```

## What you can build

- **Remove vocals from songs**  
  Isolate vocals, drums, bass, guitar, and more for remixing, karaoke, and sampling.  
  
- **Isolate dialogue for dubbing**  
  Separate speech from music and effects for localization and post-production.  
  
- **Transcribe and sync lyrics**  
  Generate word- and line-level timestamped lyrics from any song.  
  
- **Separate speakers**  
  Isolate individual speakers from multi-speaker recordings, even with overlapping speech.  
  
- **Detect and identify music**  
  Find where music appears in podcasts, video, and broadcast content for compliance.  
  
- **Recover degraded speech**  
  Denoise and de-reverb recordings for clearer speech and better transcription.

## Who this is for

- **AI companies** training speech, music, or multimodal models with clean, labeled data  
- **Media companies** processing archives for dubbing, compliance, and cataloging  
- **Developers** building karaoke apps, remix tools, practice platforms, and audio experiences

## Why AudioShake

- **State-of-the-art quality** — purpose-built models for music and speech, trained on licensed data  
- **Production-ready** — async processing, webhooks, and batch support for any scale  
- **Simple API** — one endpoint, multiple models per request, results in minutes  
- **Audio + video** — process MP4 and MOV files directly, no pre-processing needed  
- **On-device option** — run the same models locally with the [Local Inference SDK](https://developer.audioshake.ai/sdk/overview)

## Reference

- **Models**  
Browse all available models with pricing.  
- **API Reference**  
Full endpoint reference.  
- **Tutorials**  
Step-by-step guides for every workflow.  
- **Billing & Credits**  
How pricing works.