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Add an empty target-language work to an existing project without starting paid media generation.

Authentication and permissions

string
required
Send a VoiceCheap API key in this header. Authorization: Bearer with the same API key is also supported. OAuth access tokens are accepted only by MCP, not by this REST endpoint.
Required permissions: translations:write. An active paid subscription is required. Permissions do not change team roles, resource ownership, media credits, or plan limits.

Parameters

string
required
Text value.Minimum length: 1. Maximum length: 200. Pattern: ^[^/\\]+$.
string
required
Text value.Allowed values: “afrikaans”, “albanian”, “amharic”, “arabic”, “armenian”, “assamese”, “azerbaijani”, “basque”, “belarusian”, “bengali”, “bosnian”, “bulgarian”, “catalan”, “croatian”, “czech”, “danish”, “dutch”, “english”, “british english”, “estonian”, “finnish”, “french”, “french canadian”, “galician”, “german”, “greek”, “gujarati”, “hebrew”, “hindi”, “hungarian”, “icelandic”, “indonesian”, “irish”, “italian”, “japanese”, “kannada”, “kazakh”, “khmer”, “korean”, “lao”, “latvian”, “lithuanian”, “macedonian”, “malay”, “malayalam”, “mandarin”, “marathi”, “mongolian”, “nepali”, “norwegian”, “persian”, “polish”, “portuguese”, “brazilian portuguese”, “pt_brazil”, “punjabi”, “romanian”, “russian”, “serbian”, “slovak”, “slovenian”, “spanish”, “swahili”, “swedish”, “tagalog”, “tamil”, “telugu”, “thai”, “turkish”, “ukrainian”, “urdu”, “vietnamese”, “welsh”, “yoruba”, “zulu”.
string
Optional at the transport boundary: the server injects an identifier before validation when omitted. Supply your own stable UUID v4 to recover safely from a lost response.Format: “uuid”. Pattern: ^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-4[0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$.
The JSON Schema below preserves the exact field names, nested types, defaults, bounds, and accepted values exposed by discovery. Additional cross-field rules are listed in the operation notes.

Idempotency

Use a UUID v4 in requestId or the Idempotency-Key HTTP header for each mutation. Reuse the same identifier and identical arguments after a network failure. If both are supplied, they must match. Replaying a saved request does not repeat the operation or charge another monthly call. Failed or interrupted requests are not restarted automatically. Every mutation can return HTTP 202 when a retry finds the same request still running, even when its first execution is normally synchronous. If execution completed but resultStored is false, a retry returns HTTP 200 with saved request state instead of the original result. Retrieve the output through its domain history, result, or download action.

Request examples

Replace example resource identifiers and media keys with values returned for your account. Keep the request identifier stable when retrying the same mutation.

Response

A successful first execution returns HTTP 200 with the operation result under data. A replay may return saved request state instead. The example shows one supported response, not every optional field. Returns a new language-work identity, or the full existing work projection when that target language already exists.

Result fields

The target language already has a work in this project.

Returns the full existing language-work projection; no additional work is created.
HTTP 200

Recover and poll this request

Use the same identifier even after a lost connection. If resultStored is false, retrieve the output through the corresponding history, result, or download action. Never start a second generation merely to check progress.
HTTP 200

Operation notes

  • Adding a new language does not start transcription, translation or speech generation. The new work waits for proofreading and begins with all source segment indexes pending.
  • The new-work branch returns exactly projectId, workId and targetLanguage. The existing-work branch returns the same projection as translations_get.
  • Start actual media processing separately with translations_start or translations_dub.
  • Stored failures return VoiceCheap error codes and fixed messages. Use the code and current resource state to decide how to recover.

Usage

Each successful invocation consumes one monthly API/MCP call. Media credits and the operation’s own generation allowances also apply.

Errors