Finnish Speech to Text

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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Fast and accurate Finnish speech recognition for real-world audio

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

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Finnish Language Overview

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.

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Finnish Speech-to-Text Capabilities

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

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Diarization

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

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Smart formatting

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

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

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Utterances

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

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Punctuation

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

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Redaction

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

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Finnish Speech-to-Text features

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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.

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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.

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Scale beyond Finnish with one API

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

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