Convert English speech to text with high accuracy, low latency, and enterprise-grade scalability. Deepgram delivers real-time and batch transcription through a developer-first speech-to-text API.
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Get real-time English speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.

Speakers: 380 million native speakers
Regions: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand
Dialects: General American, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), Southern US, New York City, Boston
Writing system: Latin alphabet (26 letters)
Language family: Indo-European (Germanic branch, West Germanic group)
English is widely used across North America, Europe, Oceania, and globally, making it a key language for call center analytics, customer support AI, media captioning, healthcare transcription, educational platforms, and legal documentation.

Deepgram includes everything required to produce accurate, readable, and secure English transcripts out of the box.
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker English conversations.
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for English text.
Instantly find words or phrases inside long English recordings without reprocessing audio.
Segment streaming English audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to English transcripts for easy reading.
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from English transcripts.

Keyterm prompting for English
Boost recognition of brand names, product terms, and domain-specific vocabulary in English audio to improve keyword recall and transcript accuracy.

Automatic language detection
Identify when audio is spoken in English and transcribe it without pre-selecting a language. For mixed-language datasets, sources, and batch transcription pipelines.

Multilingual speech recognition
Transcribe audio where speakers switch between English and other supported languages in the same stream without model swapping or post processing required.
Start with English speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
Start transcribing English audio with Deepgram's speech to text API. It is fast, accurate, and built for real-time applications.