Convert Finnish 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 Finnish speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.

Speakers: 5.3-5.4 million native speakers worldwide
Regions: Finland (primary official language), Sweden, Estonia, and diaspora communities
Dialects: Western dialects (Southwestern, Häme, Central Finland), Eastern dialects (Savo, Karelian), Northern dialects (Kainuu, Lapland)
Writing system: Latin alphabet with 29 letters (including ä and ö)
Language family: Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family
Finnish is widely used across Finland's high-digital economy, healthcare, media, and public services, making it a key language for call analytics, customer support AI, media captioning, telemedicine transcription, legal proceedings, and multilingual voice agents in the Nordic region.

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

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

Automatic language detection
Identify when audio is spoken in Finnish and transcribe it without pre-selecting a language. For mixed-language datasets, sources, and batch transcription pipelines.
Start with Finnish speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
Start transcribing Finnish audio with Deepgram's speech to text API. It is fast, accurate, and built for real-time applications.