Using Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Python SDK)

Basic transcription (ASR) for prerecorded audio (REST) or live audio (WebSocket) via /v1/listen.

When to use this product

• REST (transcribe_url / transcribe_file) — one-shot transcription of a complete file or URL. Use for batch jobs, captioning pipelines, offline analysis.
• WebSocket (listen.v1.connect) — continuous streaming transcription. Use for live captions, real-time microphone input, phone audio.

Use a different skill when:

• You want summaries, sentiment, topics, intents, diarization, or redaction on the audio → deepgram-python-audio-intelligence (same endpoint, different params).
• You need turn-taking / end-of-turn events → deepgram-python-conversational-stt (v2 / Flux).
• You need a full-duplex interactive assistant (STT + LLM + TTS + function calls) → deepgram-python-voice-agent.

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