Faster, more accurate, and cheaper than Speechmatics

Companies with a high volume of audio are looking for a Speechmatics speech-to-text alternative. Deepgram delivers with +90% accuracylower cost, and higher speeds.

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All the features. Better performance. Lower cost.

Deepgram
Deepgram
Speechmatics
Speechmatics
FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES
Pre-recording processing (1hr of audio)
~30 seconds
1800 seconds
Speed tradeoffs
None
Adding diarization doubles transcription time
Accuracy (WER)
8.4
11.3
Audio streams
unlimited
10 per second
Batch file size limit
unlimited
2 hours
# of transcription sessions at once
unlimited
100
Tailored speech models
Deep Search (audio)
Redaction
Punctuation
Profanity Filter
Numeral Formatting
Diarization
Named Entity Recognition or Custom Spelling of Entities
PRICING
Pre-recorded per minute
Starting at $0.0043
4x more expensive
Streaming per minute
Starting at $0.0059
3x more expensive

Tired of waiting for your transcripts?

We were too. So we built our End-to-End Deep Learning ASR to be lightning fast. One hour of audio transcribed in 20 seconds and real-time streaming lags of less than 300 ms. And adding diarization will not double our transcription time.

Speech recognition built for growth

Is transcription at 2x real-time speed enough?
As you expand your business, this is definitely not going to cut it. We can transcribe 10,000 hours of audio in 33 minutes using 100 streams. Speechmatics will take over 2 days using 100 streams and a lot of CPU power. Don’t limit your growth.

Tailored models unique to your audio

What if Speechmatics’ out of the box accuracy is not enough? Sorry, that’s the end of the road. With Deepgram, our out of the box solution, which is already highly accurate, can continually be improved with training. With our data-centric approach, our AI speech models can learn to transcribe very difficult audio accuracy; i.e. jargon, terminology, slang, accents, noise, etc. We can build a higher accuracy tailored speech model for you within weeks with our data labelers, linguists, and ML engineers.

Lower TCO for on-premises

Deepgram provides a lower cost per hour and optimizes our processing for on-premise deployments so that each GPU can process multiple audio streams concurrently, thereby lowering your compute costs. Speechmatics requires one CPU per audio stream, which will rack up your compute bill quickly.

Switching to Deepgram is easy.

Switching to Deepgram is easy

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