How to integrate Speechmatics MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Speechmatics MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Speechmatics is a speech-to-text API for async audio and video transcription. It gives you accurate transcripts, job control, and usage reporting at scale.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Speechmatics MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Speechmatics MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

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codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

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codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
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[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

What is the Speechmatics MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Speechmatics MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Speechmatics account. It provides structured and secure access to your audio and video transcription workflows, so your agent can create transcription jobs, monitor their progress, retrieve transcripts, manage jobs, and review usage on your behalf.

  • Audio and video transcription: Have your agent submit publicly accessible audio or video for asynchronous transcription.
  • Job monitoring and management: Let the agent list transcription jobs, check their status and processing errors, or delete jobs and their associated transcripts.
  • Transcript retrieval: Direct your agent to retrieve completed transcripts as structured content, plain text, or subtitle text.
  • Language and feature discovery: Instruct your agent to check supported languages, locales, domains, translation options, and language identification features before starting a job.
  • Transcription usage reporting: Have your agent report transcription counts and processed audio duration for a selected UTC date range.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Speechmatics with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Speechmatics directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for Speechmatics operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various Speechmatics operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Speechmatics action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Transcription Job

Create an asynchronous Speechmatics transcription job from a publicly fetchable media URL and return its job ID.

Delete Transcription Job

Delete a transcription job and its associated transcript and resources, optionally forcing termination of a running job.

Discover Speech Features

Return Speechmatics' current Batch languages, locales, domains, translation support, and language-identification capabilities.

Get Transcript

Retrieve a transcription job's completed transcript as structured JSON v2, plain text, or SRT text.

Get Transcription Job

Get a transcription job's status, configuration, duration, and processing errors, optionally waiting briefly for a terminal state.

Get Usage

Get Batch transcription counts and audio duration aggregated over an optional UTC date range.

List Transcription Jobs

List transcription jobs in the connected US1 project, newest first, with an agent-controlled continuation cursor.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Speechmatics MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Speechmatics tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Speechmatics and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Codex fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Speechmatics tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Speechmatics scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Speechmatics data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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