English Speech to Text

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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Fast and accurate English speech recognition for real-world audio

Get real-time English speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.

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English Language Overview

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.

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English Speech-to-Text Capabilities

Deepgram includes everything required to produce accurate, readable, and secure English transcripts out of the box.

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Diarization

Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker English conversations.

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Smart formatting

Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for English text.

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Instantly find words or phrases inside long English recordings without reprocessing audio.

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Utterances

Segment streaming English audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.

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Punctuation

Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to English transcripts for easy reading.

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Redaction

Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from English transcripts.

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English Speech-to-Text features

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Scale beyond English with one API

Start with English speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.

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Start transcribing English audio with Deepgram's speech to text API. It is fast, accurate, and built for real-time applications.